Cooked Crack Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.The decision represents an abrupt shift of strategy for the industry, which has opened legal proceedings against about 35,000 people since 2003. Critics say the legal offensive ultimately did little to stem the tide of illegally downloaded music. And it created a public-relations disaster for the industry, whose lawsuits targeted, among others, several single mothers, a dead person and a 13-year-old girl. Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet-service providers. The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an email to the provider when it finds a provider's customers making music available online for others to take. Depending on the agreement, the ISP will either forward the note to customers, or alert customers that they appear to be uploading music illegally, and ask them to stop. If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122966038836021137.html?mod=rss_whats_news_technology *Goes off to DL a CD* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Are you serious? Holy cow. LIMEWIRE, WELCOME BACK TO MY CPU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Oh man. This brings up this question. Which is the best site available these days. Time to update my music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dictator Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Good. That's what they get for trying to protect their product! F'ers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASkins540 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Huzzah! :point2sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 i use youtube to get my music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Good times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickalino Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 And it created a public-relations disaster for the industry, whose lawsuits targeted, among others, several single mothers, a dead person and a 13-year-old girl. The nerve of them, going after the untouchable single mothers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Good because they were wasting their time anyway since piracy is not going anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Oh man. This brings up this question. Which is the best site available these days. Time to update my music. Limewire, Frostwire, mp3 Rocket. I prefer the first two. They have bitzi lookup and I can usually tell if a file is a virus before I download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 bump for those who have not heard the great news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocolateCitySkin Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 can't you just setup an anonymous proxy server and tell the riaa to go **** themselves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackest Eyes Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 You know, while I will be the first to admit that I have downloaded albums...many many albums, it really irritates me that people download music and refuse to buy albums. If I download an album it is to check it out first and if I like it I buy it. If I don't like it, I delete it off my hard drive. I don't want junk wasting space. Please support the artists who make music to entertain you. /endrant Back on topic, I hate the RIAA and am glad they are looking for better ways to stop illegal downloading. I do not thing it will ever cease, however, I hope that it slows down and deserving artists still get their money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 You know, while I will be the first to admit that I have downloaded albums...many many albums, it really irritates me that people download music and refuse to buy albums. If I download an album it is to check it out first and if I like it I buy it. If I don't like it, I delete it off my hard drive. I don't want junk wasting space.Please support the artists who make music to entertain you. /endrant Back on topic, I hate the RIAA and am glad they are looking for better ways to stop illegal downloading. I do not thing it will ever cease, however, I hope that it slows down and deserving artists still get their money. I just spent $43 on iTunes. One big thing you miss with downloading from Limewire is sound quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackest Eyes Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I just spent $43 on iTunes.One big thing you miss with downloading from Limewire is sound quality. You lose sound quality on iTunes as well. But at least on iTunes the music has been paid for. I was a member of emusic for a while and they have some really cool stuff too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 You lose sound quality on iTunes as well. But at least on iTunes the music has been paid for. I was a member of emusic for a while and they have some really cool stuff too. I like eMusic because they have a ton of great underground/indie artists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUSkinsFan Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I still say the best way for the music industry to combat piracy is for ALL music companies to get together and set up an iTunes-like store where you pay a subscription and download ALL the music you want without DRM. If they would do that I would be the first one to sign up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GibbsFactor Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Not so fast guys. If your ISP finds you sharing these files, they can and will kill you Internet connection. Keep that in mind. You'll have to remove the file in question to get it back on, and three strikes and you're out, meaning you'll need to get a new ISP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Not so fast guys. If your ISP finds you sharing these files, they can and will kill you Internet connection.Keep that in mind. You'll have to remove the file in question to get it back on, and three strikes and you're out, meaning you'll need to get a new ISP. So you're saying ISP's are willingly going to terminate customers and lose money? Doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IONTOP Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Not so fast guys. If your ISP finds you sharing these files, they can and will kill you Internet connection.Keep that in mind. You'll have to remove the file in question to get it back on, and three strikes and you're out, meaning you'll need to get a new ISP. So... I can tap into someone else's unsecured connection and they won't be able to delete the file, so they'll get their internet cut off? SWEET... I might just start my own ISP for all the people who's ISP gets terminated because of me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackest Eyes Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I still say the best way for the music industry to combat piracy is for ALL music companies to get together and set up an iTunes-like store where you pay a subscription and download ALL the music you want without DRM. If they would do that I would be the first one to sign up. The issue is that people do not want to spend money because they can find places to get things for free. I don't think availability really has anything to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 You know, while I will be the first to admit that I have downloaded albums...many many albums, it really irritates me that people download music and refuse to buy albums. If I download an album it is to check it out first and if I like it I buy it. If I don't like it, I delete it off my hard drive. I don't want junk wasting space.Please support the artists who make music to entertain you. /endrant I support artists by going to their concerts. That's where they really make their money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I use Rhapsody anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renaissance Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I support artists by going to their concerts. I second this. I will buy an album from an artist I really like/respect though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickalino Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 can't you just setup an anonymous proxy server and tell the riaa to go **** themselves? Sure, try it and let us know how it works out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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