Never ever going to buy a CD...

[eschelon]

That's right...just keep suing your customers RIAA...put the "scare" into all of us as being future defending litigants for performing actions that is no different than any one of us carpooling, sharing a candy bar, letting someone use their DVD disk, watching a someone else's video...it's not like we're China or some other 3rd world sh*thole that has a government sheltered mass production copying/manufacturing industry.

Hey, I know I am preaching to the choir...but seeing the news article today about Verizon being demanded by the court to give up the name of the Kazaa user only made the fire in my ass bigger today on my stance of ever buying a CD.

Listen folks...every time you buy a CD, you are helping these RIAA folks with more money to sue you and your fellow sharing brethren. This whole sharing of music thing is not about artists...since those lazy-ass artists won't work for their money (i.e. tour, concerts)...this music business model has to change with the times.

[notbob]

and every time you use aol, or time warner cable, or road runner or cox or a million other things

it's nice to think that not buying cd's will bankrupt the riaa, but that's just naieve--the riaa is funded by the music industry(media industry really, since nobody does "just music" anymore) which is for all intents and purposes a monopoly that controls almost anything you see or hear--tv, movies, music, internet access (not completely but they're working on it) magazines, books, newspapers

all of these things are run by about 10 companies now, and the number shrinks every few years (vivendi is one that's in financial trouble, it will be swallowed by a bigger fish, and so on)

soon it will be the united states of microsoft-aol-time-warner-sony-vivendi-disney-bertellsman-emi

[dverma75]

I with u dude, I am not gonna any more cd's.

Verizon will apeal this decision, they dont wanna lose all their residential dsl customer.

Why do people have broadband at home? Just to use this P2P progies. If i cant use i dont need Broadband, i already do enought surfing in the office.