757 new RIAA victims
p2p news / p2pnet:- The Warner Music Group (US), EMI (Britain), Universal Music (France) and Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) record label cartel has sued another 757 American men, women and children under its bitter and entirely fruitless sue ‘em all product sales project.
This brings the total number of people singled out to 14,800. However, of these, only about 3,400 people have actually done a deal with one of the entertainment cartel blackmail centres set up to act as shills.
Among the new victims is a Princeton student, says The Daily Princetonian pointing out that 30 of the university’s students have now been subpoenaed by the RIAA.
Columbia, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley, were among 17 other universities which also received subpoenas.
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) are now virtual joint-venture partners in a concentrated and carefully orchestrated multi-billion-dollar international campaign meant to terrorize people into buying product made by their owners.
Both pseudo-police organizations recently joined the Internet2 network, claiming they want to, “study advanced content distribution technologies”.
The labels claim the subpoenas, none of which has actually culminated in a court case, are significantly impacting file sharing which is, they say, “devastating” them.
However, the opposite is true.
Far from being deterred from using the p2p networks, more and more people are logging on every day.
Statistics gathered by p2p research firm Big Champagne (left) show the average number of people simultaneously logged onto the p2p networks around the world at any given time between August, 2003, and August, 2005.
In 2003 in the US, the focus of the disingenuous RIAA hype, 2,630,960 people were logged on at any moment, in 2004 the figure was 4,549,801, and in August 2005, it was 6,871,308.
The figures effectively give the lie to the Big Four record label cartel claim that its sue ‘em all campaign is having a significant effect. Meanwhile, a swelling wave of protest is becoming manifest as more and more people join the We’re Not Taking Any More club.
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See:-
act as shills – Settlement Support Center, LLC, September 22, 2005
The Daily Princetonian – RIAA launches new round of suits, September 30, 2005
pseudo-police organizations – RIAA, MPAA, penetrate Internet2, September 10, 2005
opposite is true – RIAA lies and disinformation, September 27, 2005
September 30th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
Music is not air. If all they are making is “tired, over-priced” music, then stop buying it. The fact that everyone is so passionate about this issue is because they like this so-called “tired, over-priced” music. Blame yourselves for fueling the inductry.
September 30th, 2005 at 4:40 pm
…while the RIAA complains publicly that P2P is ruining them, member companies like BMI are reporting record profits (no pun intended). And this despite the fact that they’re putting out fewer new releases.
Anyone else see the problem with this picture? Anyone on Capitol Hill, anyway?
September 30th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
“BMI are reporting record profits..”
BMI and ASCAP re government empowered monopolies that license catalogs that they do not give even to me, a forced customer. A clear fraud that we tolerate because that way they will not sue us. The old protection racket. I have no more to say.
September 30th, 2005 at 6:08 pm
There’s hope folks. Of the two cases brought to court, the PEOPLE have won/prevailed over the CARTEL. So if you are sued, think about talking to the EFF or anyone who has experience!
September 30th, 2005 at 6:35 pm
We all know the MP3 is an unrestricted open format!
The trash they sell is restricted crap that they can control what you do with.
Not MP3’s!
September 30th, 2005 at 8:03 pm
For every ten people I hear about being sued (by the **AA’s) I encourage an installation of LimeWire. If 70 people are announced to be sued, I hand out 7 CD’s with LimeWire and other open source filesharing programs. On these disks, I also have a small tutorial on how to download and share safely as well as sample songs and movies. I am doing this in order to punish the cartels for their extortion, since I will not ever be able to collect the amount of fines that the **AA’s owe already. See the article http://p2pnet.net/story/4023 on how to fine the **AA’s.
September 30th, 2005 at 8:22 pm
Scum. Pure scum. May they burn in hell along with other corporate illuminists.
September 30th, 2005 at 9:13 pm
The product itself has always been overpriced. However we now have alternative methods of obtaining them, thats why the cartels are pissed off. Their happy lala land of endless gulible customers has ended.
The music over the last 3/4 years has been tired. Infact 90% of it is crap. Thats why the average band lifetime has decreased to about 6 months-1year. Although, there are a minority of a few bands that stand out. Coldplay, Greenday and a few others. But i mean it when i say a minority.
The main gripe i have with the cartels is overpricing without a doubt. 30 cents/20 pence is a more reasonable price to buy single songs online. $99/£1.20 is extortionate. If they can’t offer a realistic price, then i wont pay, it’s as simple as that.
October 1st, 2005 at 1:10 am
all the riaa wants is MONEY , MONEY ,MONEY, all they want p2p file sharing systems off the internet for is because they are making it hard for them to get MONEY, it’s not about , if anybody is doing right or wrong , these people (riaa and record companies aka cartel) will shit on their own artists if they can’t make the amount of money that they want , there is alot of artists that say it’s the record companies fault that they went down hill , they promise singers , and bands all this money , we are gonna be rich , BULLSHIT, the riaa and the record companies are gonna be rich and if the artist or the band stop making BIG money for them , then they become has beens , old news, washed up , even though the artists and the bands still can sing , the riaa and the record companies will flush them down the toilet , and make the public forget about them , only if they have die hard fans though , then it’s almost impossible, one band members in particular, Metallica , Pearl Jam , Boys To Men, Nynsnc(I dont’ think I spelled that right but you know what group I’m meaning,lol)
the riaa don’t give a damn about the artists or bands they supposedly represent all they want is the money they can make for them , NOT WITH THEM , FOR THEM !!!!!!!!!!
mark my words , if they ever and that’s a big if , was able to get rid of p2p file sharing(in their dreams) they would go right after the p2p file sharing systems that has their customers pay for downloading . mark my words!!!!!!!!
they dont’ want nobody getting music for free or lower priced .
when it comes to MONEY THEY WANT IT ALL!!!!!!!
they think they own the music world and all that goes with it , including the customers that buy the music ,
and going with the riaa is might as well start acting like your a virgin in white and I don’t think nobody is that any more but some people that think the riaa is right thinks so!!!!!!
DON’T YOU !!!!!!!!!!!
October 1st, 2005 at 7:17 am
i donno great thing your doing but maybe you should consider another filesharing program given what limewires been doing with it lately or give out older versions and tell them not to update it or theyre screwed essentially or give them shareaza and azures. dont get offeneded or anything, it is a great thing your doing, just a suggestion
October 1st, 2005 at 9:24 am
I agree with the above but the biggest fear the record companys have is that with the digital world is that they are loseing control. More and more artists are finding that they do not need the record company to get there music to the public.
You only have to look at what Marillion have done to get there music to the fans and the way they do it now with out been ripped off by people like EMI. Marillion have looked after there fans and because of the way they have done it it has helped them pay for a tour in the USA. This would not have happened if they were tired in with a record company. But most important to the band is they still own the rights to all of they music.
As regards P2P most people and I do believe this that people download music that they like but would not buy, but still buy a CD if it is something that they really want.
I think that this as been proven with the latest Bon Jovi album you can get easily on P2P networks. But as Bon Jovi and the record companys have annoced that it is there biggest fastest selling CD to date. So what is the truth? If were all downloading off P2P then how is this possiable?
So the record compays should expect that things are changing and instead of fighting it they should change with it. Not do what they are doing it at the moment. They say they have but just because they allow sites now to sell there music which as I and so many people have already stated they are way over charging. So my last point is how can they charge £7.99 or more if your paying a subscribtion to download an album which you buy the orginal from £6.99. Were is the reasoning behide that?
October 3rd, 2005 at 4:06 pm
Yes, the TIAA (Tobaco Industries Association of America) plan a campaign to sue downloaders of cigarettes from Canada and Uploaders of Cigars from Havana. They are consulting RIAA lawyers on how to go about it. TIAA claims that for each smuggled cigarette or cigar, a sale is lost.
The talks include the possibility of merging RIAA and TIAA, after both realized that they actually shared the same markets: brainwashed kids and both want to stop the thiefs and smugglers.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
October 3rd, 2005 at 5:13 pm
I read here as well at mp3 newswire how the record companies are out to get people. My question is how do they find them? Labels make a lot of money… I know becouse before I got disabled I was out buying all kinds of product from them (and so were many others) They expect that if media gets ruined you buy another copy even if it was an accident. I have a lot of records and would have had more had the material been burned on not such a cheap easily dammage media, but who wants to cart around broken or non playable records or cd’s the rest of their life? Who even knew of the technology that would come in the future where you can download things you once had
October 3rd, 2005 at 5:31 pm
? I dont feel I’m breaking the law by getting playable copies of things I have had. And what about things that arent in print anymore? Do labels not have enough income? They have to sue people who don’t even drive to get out anymore or have low or no income at all? and kids… you have to be a certain age to work. Home of the free? HA
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:24 pm
I hacked the LmeWire Basic into LimeWire pro. I downloaded the source code and hacked it into the Pro Version. That is the great thing about LimeWire; it is open source. If I don’t like something about it, I just yank out that part of the code or hack it into something I do like. I agree with you in the fact that I should offer more choice. I am working on doing that very thing
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I also want to say that as far as I can tell, LimeWire is not filtering out content that is licenced, they are just pointing out the fact that it is licenced. If LimeWire give you the choice of whether you want to filter out licenced content, I think that is a good choice as long as YOU and not the cartels remain in control. If, however, they use mandatory filtering or add spyware, then I will hack out the undesirable code and distribute my version.