Comments on: LimeWire versus the RIAA

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:24:40 +0000

While the RIAA is wrong morally, This suit about RIAA stymying competiton by using accusations of copyright infringement will very likely be thrown out by the judge. Judges are usually critters which rule by court procedures, previous rulings, lawyerspeak, and their specific interpetation of the law. The Constitutionality or morality of said procedures, rules, precendences, or interpetations can be damned as far as most judges are concerned.

In my humble opinion, what LimeWire needs to do is show that it also provides large scale distribution of non-infringing, independent content such as freely released music from local bands, independent or GNU software, and video files. An example of this would be my congregation intent of using Limewire to redistribute videos of sermons delivered every Sabbath. This type of redistribution of content is legit, and is the only way my congregation can afford to spread the message. We are considering the likes of Limewire and Bittorrent due to the fact that video files are huge and it would save on costs of bandwidth if distributed via peer to peer networking.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:23:59 +0000

WTF are you talking about? It’s like you are in the middle of a conversation. How about starting with what you are talking about then expressing your opinion? And to which precedents are you refering?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:01:26 +0000

Anyone thinking you need the support of a blogger or a journalist to win a case where there are extensive precedents is severely misguided.

It seems to be a tactic wholly adopted by this site tto duke it out in the media or away from the court of law considering a matter.

P.S. just checked nothing in the journalism degree that qualifies journalists to become the judge and jury of trials

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:51:51 +0000

As I understand it, the corporate bloodlines are relatively thin between the news reporting media and the recording industry. If this were an MPAA case, /then/ I’d expect large scale parroting of plaintiff press releases.

P . S . Go Limewire!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:27:55 +0000

this may be an old tactic, but I’m surprised by the supportive press the mainstream news is giving LimeWire. I’ve been googlng the articles, and there is virtually no support for the RIAA’s case.

I expect that will change tomorrow when the mainstream press get their writing orders.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:45:02 +0000

Anyone not in a coma for the past decade would know that this routine doesn’t work anymore. Apart from being as predictiable as ‘who’se on first?’ the defensive strategy here has been struck out so many times that if it were a boxer the only sponsorship would be on the bottom of their shoes.

Taking this approach is revealing insofar as it is a pretty good indicator of how far behind Limewire’s thinking actually is in a dynamic and fast moving environment.

It is hard to accept that this is what the Limewire guys actually think, it is probably the concoction of a lawyer looking for a solid delaying tactic ahead of settlement