Comments on: Big Music wants Britanny Chan

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:52:54 +0000

Most, if not all,of the copyright infringement lawsuits by the RIAA,MPAA et.al., have only cropped up since Bush took office and the Republicans gained control of both Congress and the White House? I understood that they were for limited government interference, yet what we hear today is that Congress wants to make any fileshareing illegal.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:06:35 +0000

…………..And the courts complain there isn’t enough time and money to to prosecute real criminals, nor jail space to hold them all

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:11:16 +0000

No other choice?

How about this: STOP SUING, and find a way to live with technology instead of fight it!

Or does that not count as a choice?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:22:34 +0000

Just found this site today. Last night, we got our paperwork that we….me, actually…..are being sued. The intent is to fight it, as I think its an unconcionable thing for them to do. The download was done by my son, innocently.

I would just ask that anyone following this issue would please send any information to innhawk@aol.com. It’s a big roll of the dice, but if no one fights…and thank God for those who are….it will only get worse.

Thanks

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:16:11 +0000

You are not very intelligent are you? While a portion of our congress has corrupted politicians; a decent amount of them only swing with the people/the party they run under. If a bill is passed in one way, and they voted in an opposing view as you, this does not make them “corrupt”.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:25:51 +0000

Listen you rocket scientist, laws are made by those in power and not by those at the bottom. Usually the laws are good but many are bad. What happens in this case is that they get changed or totally scrapped. Laws are not handed down to us from God or some mighty source. We make them. Through the years there have been hundreds of bad laws. Usually time shows this to be true. Times are changing now, technology is changing us. The laws will be changed.
We are going through a growing process, a change right now. The sounds of change are here in these blogs, messages and emails.
You know I’m right, we all can feel the change coming.

Sony/Warner/Elecktra/Priority/Motown Record companies are outnumbered by….us. Big machines take time to get up to speed and millions of people are a big machine.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:18:27 +0000

…and the local utility company is liable because they supplied the electricty too!…
Boy oh boy are the Sony,Motown….gang dumb.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:17:05 +0000

Excellent point, everyone should use the true company names in all their messages and mention RIAA only in a footnote.
They need to stop hiding behind four letters.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:14:05 +0000

That’s what I’ve been saying.
A one year ban on buying anything from the RIAA gang.
Throw in movie tickets for that year too and they’ll
get the message….DON’T SCR_W YOU CUSTOMERS.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:04:14 +0000

Ok, that was just dumb.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:35:23 +0000

whoa that’s a new one. first time I heard that

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:11:32 +0000

IMO, the RIAA should be shot with a load of sh*t and then shot for stinking. I’m an old musician, singer, and songwriter, and I understand that people who create music need to be paid for it. However I feel that the RIAA is going about this all wrong. I think it has outlived any usefullness it might ever have had, and any musician worth his (or her) salt would dump them. When this crap started I quit buying music from anyone affiliated with the RIAA. I miss the music, but I refuse to support the bastards. And no, I don’t download songs for free unless a friend sends them to me. For instance, my brother (and best friend) sent me a song he wrote and mastered down quite nicely, and he wanted my opinion of it. I listened to it several times and pronounced it excellent, but it needed some percussion… I’m thinking Conga drums here. He’s my younger brother and wrote this song about his recently deceased wife, who was younger still. It’s a very touching song and I think he did a very good job with it.

The thing is, I used to play for a living, but I *had* to play. The main thing I love about making music is sharing it with people and I’m driven to do that, even if I don’t make a cent. If I get paid, well, so much the better, but if I can brighten up somebody’s day that’s payment enough.

Oh, and TG, I consider yours an excellent post.
- Alphtoo… old hippy

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:39:05 +0000

Complaining about and exposing such existing exploitative, antisocial laws, is the first step to changing them.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:14:38 +0000

When Scott Simm, member of parliament for the riding of “Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor” in Newfoundland, asked the Heritage Minister if changes to copyright law would target his 10-year-old son, the Minister avoided the question.

http://www.digital-copyright.ca/taxonomy/term/22

Many members of parliament have children that will be targeted by the American and European major labels that make up the “Canadian” recording industry association. I suspect if they realized just how bad this situation is they would then speak up in parliament and not allow those MPs practically “owned” by the major labels to bend over backwards to hand Canadians over to CRIA.

Please do what you can to protect our children. If you are a youth (under 18) that isn’t yet voting age, write your member of parliament anyway and get your patents involved!

Information on finding your member of parliament: http://www.digital-copyright.ca/ectools

If you want help writing letters, or want feedback on something before you send it, please connect with me or the other folks with Digital Copyright Canada http://www.digital-copyright.ca/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:06:38 +0000

Sooner or later the labels will have to come to terms with the fact that they depend on us. We don’t depend on them.

Sure - stop buying their ‘product’ But don’t just leave it there.

Bug the hell out of your local congress person, MP, or whoever is supposed to represent you, wherever you are. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, demonstrations.

And if you’re into organizing, organize a petition, get everyone you know to sign it and then hand-deliver it to your political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:49:31 +0000

I have basically never downloaded music off the internet, but I STILL agree, and basically refuse to buy CDs from a major labels these days. I have plenty of other things to do with my time (and can listen to the radio or my existing CDs or go to concerts if I do want to listen to music) that I don’t need to be buying CDs all the time (I used to buy lots, usually at least a couple a month, but stopped about 5 years ago).

The TV folks have realized that internet use is eating into TV viewing time. The movie folks are realizing the same thing (and that people increasingly wait to see them on DVD or TV), and are also starting to live up to the fact that people don’t go to see crappy movies in the first place, which is mainly what Hollywood has been putting out. They have also tried to price DVDs fairly.

So why are the record folks so brain-dead?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:24:34 +0000

The music industry has always made so much money that they think they are entitled to billions of dollars of profits.

There was an interview on the radio this morning with George Jones, one of county music’s biggest artists, who recently started his own record label. In just 2 or 3 releases, he says he’s made more money than he ever got from any record company when he was a multi-platinum artist.

This is all the same issue as with the iPod pricing. Greed greed greed.

I refuse to pay $15 or more for an entire album when I know I’ll only like 1 or 2 songs from the album. (I know that an entirely different issue). They haven’t seen a dollar from me in over 20 yrs. Thank god for the deal iTunes has had with Pepsi/Mtn Dew the last few years and for people who throw away their free iTune caps! I’ve gotten 100’s of free songs from iTunes legally over the past 2 yrs.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:00:25 +0000

Don’t those Bastards ever quit?! I surely hope they get what is coming to them. These days, those bastards are “working overtime”!!!!

I’m going to go back and brainstorm how I can thwart their bitch campaign…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:25:27 +0000

Something is stolen indeed: the quality of the product. I think that a solution to this problem would be to sell the same product at a range of quality recording and the lowest quality to be free to share.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 05:56:03 +0000

Amazing, put a lollipop on the table and… got another child…. lets do it again…