Comments on: ‘I’ll take on the RIAA’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 19 May 2005 05:33:36 +0000

“If they fear that they are going to loose the money from these big companies, to support them during their election campaing, then u arent a government for all society, but a government for ur friends, and a dicator for the rest of people in your country. ”

Funny, the rest of the world was saying that about America for centuries and were called “anti-american”. Now you guys arent allowed to download free music and movies and you suddenly realize that we were right all along. Now do you believe us when we say you are also ignorant and stupid?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 18 May 2005 15:06:38 +0000

Thats what copyright law is supposed to protect.
If I wrote a piece of music, Painted a picture, Created a movie, and then earned some money from it, and then someone comes along and claims its his, and makes money out of it, (then thats wrong), and the copyright law was written, for those kind of infrigments in Mind, NOT for rich people to steal more money from the poor. I call this utter injustice, Bullying, and the Governments who allow these things to continue Pussies!. If they fear that they are going to loose the money from these big companies, to support them during their election campaing, then u arent a government for all society, but a government for ur friends, and a dicator for the rest of people in your country.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 18 May 2005 05:21:38 +0000

In our case, a music publisher stole our songs by fraudulently claiming them as their own, to the extent that 80 of the songs were even registered at the copyright office. The publisher went on to publish the name of 267 songs we own as their own on their web page. The judge gave the publisher the “punishment” of returning to us $16,000 they illegally made with one song but were allowed to keep the over $100,000 the publisher made (a proven in court fact) with the other songs. That is, the publisher was allowed to keep most of the real earnings. The judge saw nothing wrong with the thefy of songs. So the ward was to return a fractoin of the money the publisher made illegally with our songs.

The whole story is on our web page: http://www.gvenegas.com

It really makes one mad that someone who simply share copies of music (without stealing the music or exploiting it for money) is threateded with severe punishment and inconvenience.

BTW, a copyright notice is de facto meaningless because these notices are frequently no more than fraudulent claims (as it was in our case described here).

Rafel Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 18 May 2005 00:54:42 +0000

As good as this sounds, unfortunately it has the potential to cast the dark shadow upon P2P technology, again…obviously it’s not whats at fault, but the RIAA spinsters will use this angle to the max to further their crusade to crush the technology that they see as a threat to monopolistic stranglehold on distribution and promotion.

This case seems to be a double-edged sword.