Gore attacked popular culture. And he did stuff like this. In this case the democrats are trying to drive away all the young voters.
I wont argue the merits of Napster other than to say that would you agree that theft is a good thing if it results in higher profits for the companies being stolen from?
Anime has grown 60% this year and its entirely due to the fact that companies realise that all this thieving is free advertising.
I’m gonna have to ask for cites giving proof to your statements…the quotes about from Bush and Gore were indistinguishable and interchangeable for all I could tell. So I’d like to see some proof that:
1)what Gore did was different.
2)that he “attacked popular culture”
Thanks
What Gore did wasn’t different from Bush and that is what cost him the votes. You see Democrats have traditionally been strong with young voters, but with Gore they were even.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=gore+attacked+popular+culture
take your pick.
I think I need to pipe in on this considering I’ve found my own music being traded on Kazza and during the heyday of Napster.
Here are some hijack questions for consideration:
When someone commits this “crime”, one would think restitution would be in order. How in the world are the courts going to figure out where this money is going to go? It can’t all go to RIAA based companies because not every “victim” of the crime (like myself) would be represented. If they place a monetary figure of $15 per song per download, and they reckon every song on the computer had been downloaded 10 times (the $2500 amount), and the file trader only had three songs and two of them were mine, how will the court get the 5 grand to me?
Joe User on Kazza does not have proper licence or permission to allow my copyrighted material to be downloaded from his computer. But, as the copyright owner, I believe it is my own business to go after the copyright infringers on my own. Just like if a radio station or film production company used one of my titles without a licence. Will the courts be contacting every copyright owner for each song found on these “criminals” computers? Will the copyright owner be allowed to NOT press charges?
Does this mean the government will start checking t-shirt shops to verify the shirt being sold with Micky Mouse on it was properly licenced with Disney? OR, will the government just lock up the store owner, shut down his store, impound his inventory and force him to prove his case in a court of law?
Typically, it is up to you as the copyrightcolder to bring the lawsuit against the violator. If I am reading it right, the lawsuit bill and probably the felony bill would allow the RIAA to allow to bring charges or file a lawsuit against copyright violaters as well as smaller musicians like yourself.
For example: Disney and other companies actually do have people who go out and seek copyright infringement. They go to stores and shops and if they find someone selling bootleg or counterfit merchandise, they bring legal action against them. The government does not go around with “Branding Police”.
This is why I think all these new regulations won’t help. It costs money to seek out copyright violaters. It makes sense for Disney who’s livelihood depends on the quality of its brand name but incurring $100,000 or more in legal fees to sue or jail some 20 something year old to protect a $17 CD doesn’t make sense.
I picked all of the articles that came up with the google search, all of them reflected your opinion but NONE had any hard facts, just more opinions. (sorry if this is getting too Off Topic)
I would not object to such a law, if it could be guaranteed that the money gained from these law suits goes directly to the artists whose songs were being shared. Until then, the RIAA can go to hell. If they lost their position as middle-man thugs, I would be absolutely delighted. I’ve got a smile on my face just thinking about it.
Yeah.
Let’s put them in a room with Tipper Gore and the rest of the PMRC, televise it on PPV, and make it a steel cage death match.
**The RIAA vs. the PMRC!
Whores vs. Mommies!
Let’s get ready to ruuuumble**
I wonder what they’re going to do about countries like Canada - the RIAA has already bent our government over backwards and got them to charge a tax for every blank CD sold in the country, with the money going back to the record companies.
So if people are already being charged money on blank CD’s on the presumption that they’re going to use their blank CD’s to copy music, can the argument be made that they cannot also be charged for doing so? Have we been given blanket permission to copy music?
Incidentally, guess how much of the 30 million dollars already collected from Canada has gone to the actual artists? If you guessed ‘zero’, you’re correct.
Let me tell you, it doesn’t give me the warm fuzzies to know that I’m giving the record industry money every time I back up my computer or send a CD of photos to my mother - the main things I use my CD burner for.
These proposed penalties for the outrageous and dreadful crime of violating the copyrights of massive corporate interests are beyond ridiculous. As has been noted, there are people who commit bodily injury to others with intent and malice and face less five years of incarceration and no monetary fines.
We should all be very offended that corporate interests are pushing around the government, using shoddy reasoning and simply bad math to try to justify putting citizens in jail for a crime that can be undone with the push of a button.
I’m fairly sure that this is being seen as a useful heavy-handed (ham-handed) scare tactic, just like the current six figure lawsuits against several college kids who not only have no income and minimal net worths, but are also all in tens of thousands of dollars of educational debt, meaning that they have less than nothing. (Rather the walking definition of “judgment proof” I’d think.) It seems that the RIAA and their pocketed legislators think that if they have a big club to use to threaten fileswappers, maybe if they pop one or two in jail for a year with the rest of the sentence as probation, fileswapping will stop.
I had hoped that the post-Rosen era would bring changes in how this matter was dealt with. Instead of realizing that the horse is about fifty miles out of the barn so far, the after-Hilary RIAA and their bought-and-paid for elected cronies keep coming up with these increasingly disproportionate, illogical, unjust and onerous ideas instead of working to find ways to serve the consumers who obviously want the music, just not in the formats that the RIAA members are wed to solely because they think that their flagging profits will recover if they can just shut down fileswapping altgoether while continuing to flood the market with $18 CDs that only a limited number of people want.
Wouldn’t it be a hysterical thing if an industry which relies upon consumer good will actually attempted to give the consumers what they want? I’m amazed at how far divorced from that basic reality the RIAA members continue to be. They seem to forget that it’s listening to music that makes one a fan, not purchasing it, and that the purchase isn’t going to happen if people don’t see a value for their money. Their system is fundamentally broken, and their answer is putting people in jail. What planet do they reside on?
Geez, does it have a driver’s seat or are you just squatting on a milt crate?
Of course, that joke works better if it’s a milk crate.