RIAA and MPAA at Elizabethtown College
p2pnet news view MPAA | RIAA News:- “Piracy is alive and well both on the high seas and here at Elizabethtown College,” says The Etownian.
Not only but also, it seems the school is an unpaid entertainment cartel copyright cop.
“Recently, three individuals were caught distributing copyrighted material — namely movies,” it states, going on:
“The three offenders will be charged $50 as part of the College’s policy toward those who illegally download protected material. However, this puts the College in a compromising position, as organizations like the RIAA or the MPAA can force Etown to turn over the names of any people who have been pirating material, lest the College face a lawsuit of its own. The pirates can be sued for a fee of up to $150,000.”
For some reason, students seem upset, according to the story, which says some are, “in a state of uproar, as they feel as though they have been singled out”.
“I think the amounts that they fine people for are ridiculous,” it has junior Suzanne Harris saying.
“It is true that being charged $150,000 for a three minute piece of music seems to be a little on the side of overkill, but the RIAA finds this justified because they need to cover profit losses for the companies and artists they represent,” The Etownian declares, adding:
“All in all, illegal downloading puts the College in a very bad position, but there are plenty of ways to avoid it.”
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The Etownian - Music pirates incur organized crackdown, December 4, 2008
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December 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
“…the RIAA finds this justified because they need to cover profit losses for the companies and artists they represent,”…
What a load of hokem. Someone get the fire hoses and shovels, the room is near filled with BS.
The RIAA has stated from the start that the money recouped from lawsuits would not go to the artists. Rather they planned to fold the money back into the lawsuit game.
Then too, Mrs. Duckworth has made mention that the lawsuit game is a money pit, not a money maker. I would suggest this is the reason for their pricing tier that they go by for a song. Every bit of lawyering they do, raises the cost of the fine in an effort to streamline the robbery procedure.
Profit/losses? Those are imaginary figures when it comes to figuring profits. Why else have two sets of books, one for tax purposes when dealing with the government and one for contractual purposes for dealing with artists and business.
December 4th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
How much does it cost for a mainstream artist to make one song?
Or better yet, a whole album?
Could that be why the RIAA tries to justify 150000?
If so, I’d still think its a load of crap.