Comments on: Dear RIAA: My name is Brittany Kruger

By: K Klein

K Klein — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:13:25 +0000

Brittany
Its very easy for people to offer advice when they aren’t in your shoes. It must be very hard for you and your family. Your dad was in the studio last week and I can see this is having an impact on him too. When you are 30 (which will happen quicker than you think) you will look back on this and call it a life lesson.

I can only say STAY FOCUSED on the big picture. Your life! This too shall pass and you’ll be a better person for it. I hope you keep focused on your future because it is bright and will be filled with great memories from college. Clouds pass…its does stop raining…and perhaps you can contact local schools and tell your story to them. To help future college students know what you have learned.

I’ve bought Led Zep II as a LP, 8 track and cassette…the CD and now they want me to buy it as a MP3. Record companies are greedy and if the artists actually got the money I may be more sympathic…but I am on your side and wish you the best.
Your personal photographer
-Kenn

By: Too bored to comment

Too bored to comment — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:54:01 +0000

Yes Brittany, you can do something; fight back.

Raise as much awareness about your issue. Make videos explaining your plight on YouTube. Contact your local news media and online news websites and look for sympathetic ears. Raise lots of awareness. Never give up explaining your situation. Learn how to communicate effectively, be honest and remember that you can make a difference. Ask a communication expert to coach you, and find someone that knows how to be a publicist.

Don’t ignore the RIAA fanbois and critics of your plight. Use them to learn how to communicate more effectively and learn how to change your tactics so that you can sway the opinion of even the most die hard of RIAA lovers.

Never let the RIAA ever know that they’ve succeeded at bullying you and that you are sad and afraid; this is exactly what they want. They want you to cower and cry so that they can use you as an example. Don’t give them this power.

Go to your local live act clubs and spend your money on merchandise directly from the artist and show them that you support unknown talent that doesn’t mind working to make a living. If you feel you must support the music artists that are under the RIAA control, go to the artists concerts and purchase merchandise directly from the artist. Avoid buying CD’s or music DVD’s at all costs, encourage everyone that you talk to to completely boycott the music corporations, but they should support unknown local artists and support their record company artists directly by buying directly from the artist.

Rally up lots of support. Raise your voice. Show the RIAA that you are not going to be a crybaby and pay them a dime. They don’t like people that have a spine and a brain, and they certainly don’t like someone that can challenge them in a public way.

Who knows, you might be the David that can slay the Goliath. Stand up and fight as you are more powerful than all of the RIAA’s lawyers combined. Have faith in yourself because I have faith that you can succeed.

Fight and slay The Beast.

By: kiwis share

kiwis share — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:25:10 +0000

i was downloading for years and had no idea it was illegal.when i heard about it being illegal i checked out the properties on my music tracks and they all said”NOT PROTECTED”to me that means its free !!

By: Jinjuku

Jinjuku — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:30:41 +0000

Hi Brittaney,

While I know this situation sucks it is nice to see you have taken responsibility for your actions. I really do wish that the attorney working on behalf of RIAA would take the $2000 settlement offer. They won’t because they want a decent cut for their time and effort.

I do have a hard time believing that you didn’t intrinsically know that what you were doing was wrong. I think people know it’s wrong but that human nature intervenes common sense with the thought ‘So many people are doing it, how could I get caught?’.

Hope this works out the best for you.

By: StrYkE504

StrYkE504 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:44:20 +0000

I’m not entirely sure about this one. But she said her computer was hacked, isn’t that illegal. Isn’t there privacy laws? Is someone allowed to hack into a computer, even if they have 50,000 songs on it illegally shared do they have the right to hack into our computer and see that? Where is the warrant.. the probable cause.. I thought our amendments stood for something. And if that is some kind of case.. that whoever hacked the computer and violated privacy laws, shouldn’t the case be thrown out for that?? Anyone have any light to shed on this matter??

By: Jonalist

Jonalist — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:40:48 +0000

Brittany Kruger have you ever asked Russia to help you with your intellectual rights to proclaim your freedom against Iran and North Korea whom could certainly end all music lovely downloads faster than any RIAA or otherwise with a few nuclear bombs? If you ever get a chance to voice your opinion please consider what all that means, your more likely to be out working on your publishing creativity than completing any stay incarcerated like has been the issue for so many and now states are finding it hard to feed these folks while RIAA seems more happily ever after since they started receiving the judgment awards courts sided on their argument without due course of action – there are no nuclear safe places for music documents the RIAA claims to have control over rights to protect. If you find one (I MEAN ONE) you can tell me and I might consider their argument fruitless to the point of a few hundred it would require. Meanwhile, hello public listeners, the music stops when the bombs detonate is a new song yet to be released from the Internet because RIAA wants to subliminize its words secretly making it possible to convence you never to download and share it. Believe me it would be taboo for you to participate with a cartel that steals from taxpayers never to repay or follow throguh with their promises. Consider this writing a successful action to protect our liberty and freedom in America. We the people always have gotten the rights correctly. See this aricle “Big 4’s IFPI whines at Vladimir Putin – Royalty collection dispute” http://www.p2pnet.net/story/25797

By: RK

RK — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:30:48 +0000

Once again the trolls are out. “A little over the top” sound like minimization.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:41:27 +0000

While I agree that the RIAA is a little over the top in some of their actions, I find it hard to believe that you didn’t know what copyright was until you were called into the Dean’s office, that is unless you are the product of government education. That said even if you are a product of government education and you didn’t know what copyright was you have to be in the bottom 10 percentile, so save yourself some time and trouble drop out now, you are not capable of learning or being taught.

By: cyberchris

cyberchris — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:38:13 +0000

maybe we should all go back to recording cassette tape copies of record albums and giving them to our friends

By: Jasper

Jasper — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:49:24 +0000

stupid RIAA you have fucked her hole life up
stupid fockheads assholls

By: DennyWilson

DennyWilson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:07:35 +0000

The ironic thing is a person can go to the library, borrow a CD and copy it.

What’s the difference?

By: frickenWaaaltaaah

frickenWaaaltaaah — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:30:47 +0000

This is actually a tactic the RIAA copied straight from the KGB.

You do not bother to single out the extreme cases. People see that and say ‘wow, he downloaded 3 terrabytes of tv shows and 27 terrabytes of porn, what a filthy pirate.’

And then they continue to download their two songs a month.

In Soviet Russia, the KGB singled out people who they knew had done nothing wrong to spread fear. This is basically the same tactic. Target people for extremely minor violations, hit them with draconian penalties, in the hope of spreading fear.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:42:37 +0000

it’s not fair to bully her. she just care about others by sharing files stupid copyright!

By: RK

RK — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:23:57 +0000

Looks like the trolls are out.

By: Linoge

Linoge — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:40:24 +0000

Everyone on here seems crazy to me. How can you think the RIAA are a bunch of bullies? Oh boo hoo, you are taking a product for free and the company is suing you for doing that. Well if I was the umbrella corporation shielding my bands from thievery then yes I would sue you too. Now don’t get me wrong I’ve downloaded songs before, but I knew when I was doing it that it was illegal. Why don’t we just let everyone share music for free!? Well because there would be no revenue besides tickets and gear, and that is not enough for 99% of bands to live off of, if they even make it to that status.

Yes she did do something wrong, she stole. And I don’t believe her BS of not knowing that was wrong. I also don’t believe her BS of how she just ‘tries’ out songs and then buys the cd’s. Why would any sane person do that if they could just get it for free? They wouldn’t.

By: Somebody

Somebody — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:58:14 +0000

I buy a lot of music even though where I live (third world), it is very difficult to find anything I really like. They only sell the most popular bands/albums that sell in large quantity and fast and for everything else, people used to go to the local pirate that sells burnt CD-Rs and then came the P2P where everything was instantly available. On average I spend about half my salary on music because I have to go through the trouble of ordering it from other countries and pay 200 to 300% import taxes charged in my country. But I still do download off the net ocassionally, and guess what? I get a mail from the ISP because of getting a notice from the RIAA. This is ridiculous. The CDs in question are not even available anywhere in the country, so what sale do they claim they lost? Most of us wouldn’t have even heard of those bands if it wasn’t for P2P. So if you look at it the way I do, they have GAINED sales from a few people like me. But you know what? I’m not gonna fill their pockets anymore if they’re going to be assholes to people like me. NOW, they’ve lost all future purchases from me (about $5k a year) which isn’t much for them but boy do I feel great!

By: TOHELLWITHVALENTI

TOHELLWITHVALENTI — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:04:59 +0000

Yes i would just LIKE to stress out to all of you ppl that FILE sharing/downloading is ILLEGAL so if u are man enough to do it that means u are man enough to take the fault and consequences that come with it!!!! so please quit bitching about how the riaa/mpaa is ruining your life please. none of us give a fuck what happens to you. i do download media but i dont go bitching about it when people that are losing money get mad. hell if i was a musician and i saw someone downloading my shit id fucking sock him in the jaw!!! but thats just my take ON it no one elses if u want to email me about this posting please do covin_killer666 at yahoo

By: Babo Pijade

Babo Pijade — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:28:30 +0000

They deliberately choose weak, old, disabled, poor people or children for these lawsuits.
Have you ever read: “a 35 year old millionaire executive slapped with $7000 suit by RIAA.”

No, usually little girls. The plaintiffs feel this makes for better intimidation, since they can’t sue everyone.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:56:04 +0000

Just a quick comment: You should be recording these telephone conversations. And then perhaps leaking them online so everyone can see just how sleazy they are.

By: Dragonspears

Dragonspears — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:47:14 +0000

If you give them a mole hill they will take the mountain.Censorship is censorship you can’t just sensor one thing and call it bad and another good just because it dose not appeal to you.Just like religion and porn if you let them censor porn one day they will censor religion and or visa versa.It all has to do with control.The governments create laws so they can control people; not to protect them and give them security.But to take away their personal freedoms and liberties under the guise of protection security.These companys work hand and hand with the governments to stir up emotions and fear to help foster their agendas.They create the problems only to create their solutions.Ab Ordo Chaos.They don’t care about the money or that you are even downloading these files all they care about is getting other people to join their way of thinking so they can have a example for others to follow.The pied piper,Lemmings,and sheeple.Either you are part of the problem or you can be part of the solution.The bottom line is you can not sensor anything without sensoring eveything.