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A federal judge on Friday drastically reduced a nearly $2 million verdict against a Minnesota woman found guilty last year of sharing 24 songs over the Internet, calling the jury’s penalty “monstrous and shocking.”
Too bad the supreme court just gave the RIAA control of America. I for one do not welcome our corporate overlords.
If you don't like the stipulations don't buy it. If everyone took that stance then they would have no choice except to lower restrictions. It's a viscous cycle, people are led around like sheep and fall for the marketing hype and need to own the latest and greatest. The bands have to sign their life away as it's where the market is. Explore your horizons, there's literally hundreds of thousands of bands out there many offering better music much cheaper or even for free and you give the musicians a boost towards gaining freedom from the media companies.
I do not listen to any RIAA music. I am lucky in a sense that I prefer European Electronic music which I make sure is not in any way endorsed by the RIAA and their European counterpart. I vote with my wallet and the RIAA will not see a penny from me. I gladly purchase music from non-riaa affiliated artists.
Well I can only hope that the music you are in possession of has been offered free by the artists otherwise you have stolen from them and anyone else that has rights to it.
It is dinosaur and the faster people wake up and stop buying restrictive content the faster we can move on to more reasonable licensing agreements. Support your local artists and buy direct from them.
Well I can only hope that the music you are in possession of has been offered free by the artists otherwise you have stolen from them and anyone else that has rights to it.
If he ever goes to shows or buys their merchandise he's giving them way more money than they would get off of buying the music.
If he spreads the music to his buddies and they go to the show he's doing marketing work for them.
The internet has decentralized everything and made the last decade pretty amazing musically, to be honest. Far better than the crap fest that the mid-late 90's and early 2000s were.
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I never pay for music.
I pay for it but I did not until they took the DRM crap off it. I will pay a dollar for a song but once I do I expect to be able to listen to it where and when I wish- on my computer, on a CD player, on my MP3 player.
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