Comments on: RIAA, MPAA, penalise property owners

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:23:40 +0000

This is just as bad as “eminent domain” which allows the city or state to simply take your property as long as THEY vote that it is for “the common good”. No matter that you have owned it for generations, or you emmigrated here fifty years ago and built a thriving business on it….if they decide they want to put a light-rail station on that corner where your business sits, you’re screwed. Just happened to a Seattle couple last year, and when the train deal fell through they poor Chinese couple found out that the law prevented them from re-purchasing their business & property back from the state–it was sold AT A PROFIT to an apartment developer. For being so liberal why does Seattle allow this crap to take place?! And why does America allow the RIAA/MPAA train to keep chugging away?? This L.A. law is unbelievable, and I only hope that one of those city council people who voted for it will have their apartment building taken away and be forced to move…would be poetic justice.

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:56:59 +0000

“Whats next? Fine property owners when tenants cook up meth/coke or grow weed on their properties too?”

No, for that they can seize the property, and auction it off, keeping the profits for the police department. No conviction needed, they don’t even have to file charges.

Do a search on asset seizure and forfeiture.

By: NAUSEA

NAUSEA — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:00:29 +0000

I’m talking shit. Sorry.

By: NAUSEA

NAUSEA — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:54:18 +0000

Why not make them produce movies/music that are actually worth buying? That would give them the money they crave so much.
The land of the free indeed.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:30:54 +0000

As long as LA and all of california have been a drain on the US. I for one wish the …”giant” quake would come along and drop the whole damn state into the ocean…
That would be the best thing that could happen here….other than maybe Bush being impeached and tried as a traitor.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:24:45 +0000

whats wrong with making freeloaders pay for there theft?

By: The Big Boys

The Big Boys — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:05:41 +0000

The beleagered RIAA/MPAA win all the time, because they are *RIGHT*! Just remember that next time you lot whinge about them.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:58:41 +0000

Everyone knows that the RIAA and MPAA are greedy leeches in crisis….. but yet no one is willing to take a stand against them in the courts (judges are too stupid to know when they are being punked) or in the legislatures.

By: Reason

Reason — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:11:29 +0000

So, if I burn an album on a CD for a friend my landowner could get sued/fined? What a joke…

“Strong protection of intellectual property is necessary in order to maintain its [LA’s] vibrancy and economic health,”, says Mr. BrainAwol. Yeah right. Seriously, the RIAA/MPAA are a fucking cancer. Greedy leeches in a crisis…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:39:51 +0000

Eventually a day will come when you’ll have to pay astronomically exorbitant prices in order to buy a computer, a radio, absolutely anything that could be connected to media since the RIAA insists the need to account for thousands of copyrights that could be infringed as a result of the “making available” risk. Somehow, one way or the other, everyone will be at fault. And of course, we won’t get the chance to assure Edgar Bronfman Jr. that “we no longer do that”, regardless of whether we’ve ever started, have any literacy with regards to the online world, or are even alive to begin with.

By: Justin Olbrantz (Quantam)

Justin Olbrantz (Quantam) — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:57:24 +0000

“those that are used to illegally manufacture and sell recordings and audiovisual works”

Anybody know exactly what that means? Depending on the definition, this could be one of the RIAA’s most diabolical plots to date.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:45:14 +0000

Maybe they can steal all surrounding properties also as they must have known about it and didn’t report it.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:27:38 +0000

It just shows how deep corruption has gone.

By: Spike

Spike — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:58:16 +0000

Whats next? Fine property owners when tenants cook up meth/coke or grow weed on their properties too? Oh of course not, that wouldn’t make any sense, but somehow this does?