Let the RIAA backlash begin!

[Captain Kickass]

I have a lawsuit for you RIAA slobs. How about the 500+ tape cassettes (remember those, kiddies?) I own that all sound like they are played underwater. I checked the packaging for media life expectancy and came up with nothing in the way of time expiration or degradation of media. If I replace these original tape recordings with CD's the cost would be quite substantial.

But wait!!! I already own the legally purchased songs on these tapes. It seems that the RIAA and it's cronies have sold me, and countless others, media with an expiration problem in order to make me buy the same songs again! They are plainly saying that downloading these songs in a digital format from a P2P network is illegal. Yet, they offer no means of replacing my tape cassettes or the songs therein.

I suggest a class action lawsuit involving anyone that has ever purchased a tape cassette. Not to mention those counter-suits filed by those users in the sights of RIAA court-monkeys that only downloaded music to replace the defective media they bought legally in good faith. Most of these recordings are not sold in stores anymore, and are not listed in record club catalogs. At the price of 20.00 USD per cassette multiplied by the number of cassettes sold in the past 25 years, I think the damages would be quite substantial. Here comes the backlash RIAA, hope you enjoy it.


Captain Kickass

[Pebbles100]

LOL! I have a substantial stack of tapes collecting dust beneath my TV also...I demand compensation!

Hmm...let's be too unreasonable here - anywhere between $750-$150,000 per defunct song!

[method]

I have a substancial amount of crap and could whinge like a bitch about it but I'd rather anally fuck the RIAA by never buying a CD from a label that's affiliated with them.

If you're for the RIAA, you're not for the people.

May those words stand immortal.

RIAA <> Original Artists. RIAA hates competition and will do anything they can to stop it. Including attacking technology for their monopolistic benefits. But hey, like that's news! :;)

peace!

[Winphuk]

Not only Cassetes, but also those worn down LPs, eight tracks, 45s and reel-to-reels.

[cgfiend]

I agree. If you pay for music once you shouldn't have to pay for it again.

What's going to happen is the p2p community will be going underground/private and there won't be a damn thing RIAA will be able to do. New ways will always crop up and the RIAA will be running in circles trying to stop what can never be stopped.

[Ne007]

When are you people going to realize the government doesn't give a shit about whats right for the people. If the RIAA gave them enough money, the government would let them strap us down and torture us into buying their music.

Our government is corrupt....they support the corrupt, monopolistic, strong-arming, evil, all-around UN-American RIAA.

Drastic times calls for drastic measures.

[Aaron73153]

The RIAA has already been in trouble with the feds for price fixing and the reason CDs were forced on the market was so they could increase their profits. Nothing will happen to them.

[tMoD]

Too bad such a class action lawsuit would be thrown out of court. I bought many CD replacements for old tapes. I'd like double my money back, please.

[Captain Kickass]

... not so sure about it being thrown out. Product misrepresentation. Mislabeled products. All grounds for lawsuits in the past. Remember Proctor and Gamble?

You paid for it, so why not? The RIAA is saying you aren't paying for it... works for them. I have a better chance of bilking the suits at the RIAA out of their cash than I do of discovering Justice in America.

Captain Kickass

[DeadMan2003]

You do not own the songs on those cassettes. You only purchased the packaging and the rights to playback those songs (And to make a backup copy under the fair use rights from what I hear).

That's it. That's are far as it goes. Just because you have those songs on cassette does not give you the right to get another copy in another format from someone else for free. Well according to the way the law is written at any rate.