Is the RIAA only going after americans?

[maxpower311]

I live in Canada and I want to know if they plan on suing people outside of the U.S.A.


Any information would be greatly appreciated thanks.

[Sephiroth]

The RIAA is a USA only trade group. So no if you dont live in the USA then you dont have to worry about the RIAA, or any other US trade organization.

However there is a very good chance that a similar trade group that is in your country which doesnt mean that you dont have to worry about them.

[MarkB]

I haven't heard anything yet. But from what I understand, they are watching with interest very closely & is exploring it.

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/06272003a

[mp3vampire]

I wouldn't put it past them to be shareing the information with other trade groups, they probably all have contact with each other helping keep there cartel going.

[FrozenShadow23]

I would assume that they could go after anyone outside of the US if that country's gov agreed to it. They seem to just want Americans cause it's easier. Stupid music nazis.

[RIAA_MUST_DIE]

Yes, the RIAA is only going after their own customers in the States! It's much more difficult to go after them in other countries.

Since you live outside the States do your part and increase your mp3 content.

Destroy the RIAA!

[The Hunter]

Originally posted by RIAA_MUST_DIE
Yes, the RIAA is only going after their own customers in the States! It's much more difficult to go after them in other countries.

Since you live outside the States do your part and increase your mp3 content.

Destroy the RIAA!

Note, i just closed one of your threads, and if you continue to be a troll, you will be banned.

[PowerMan57two]

Yet another RIAA thread. Bummer, these RIAA threads are killing me!

[The Hunter]

They dont do squat for me either, but this was a legitimate question.

[inflikted_damage]

Maybe this question will be constructive: what can those of us in the states do to continue file sharing without too much fear of getting busted? I unfortunately chickened out the moment I read about the statement put out by the RIAA and stopped sharing. I have no desire to get busted by some random ip search but I also feel bad about not sharing and helping out the p2p community. What can I do?

[FileHoover]

Originally posted by RIAA_MUST_DIE
Yes, the RIAA is only going after their own customers in the States! It's much more difficult to go after them in other countries.

Since you live outside the States do your part and increase your mp3 content.

Destroy the RIAA!

Copyright holders have rights to enforce their copyrights virtually worldwide (Bern Convention) by treaty. With a few exceptions, Palestine being one.

Will they?

Probably not. Unless they want to make an example of someone. Remember, all they have to do is sue ONE person and that has a chilling effect on everyone even if it isn't practical for them so sue every p2p'er in say, Bulgaria.

It's more expensive for them to come over to Europe because they have to hire local attorneys and often those attorneys really gouge them and in Arab Countries, you can get ripped off completely with absolutely NO results! Arab lawyers will string you along, taking your money forever, let me tell you!

So, I think they will clean up house in the United States first. Just a guess, but a good one.

Here is a FAQ on international copyrights.

http://bricolage.bel-epa.com/resourc...faq/part4.html

[Lamourlady]

Originally posted by inflikted_damage
Maybe this question will be constructive: what can those of us in the states do to continue file sharing without too much fear of getting busted? I unfortunately chickened out the moment I read about the statement put out by the RIAA and stopped sharing. I have no desire to get busted by some random ip search but I also feel bad about not sharing and helping out the p2p community. What can I do?

well, if you're not sharing and want something from me....well, sorry.....you're Hammered immediately.
as to what u can do???
i say fuck em' and continue sharing.
there are many other Americans who share and take that risk and so should every other "chicken-shit".
why should only a handful put their necks out for u others???
if u can't do this, then i would imagine u should just stop downloading period.
i don't think u will gather much sympathy from many of the users here.
sorry.

[NDGAARONDI]

Thanks for the link, Filehoover. But there's a bog hoo-har on treaties like this. And that's enforcement. I remembered one American guy who broke an English law (IP), forgot his name, think he's in Congress.

Oh well. There's other treaties too, but I'm unsure if USA has stuck to them too. I heard the jellow or something sandwich was patented. But you can't do that, since the orginal was English, you just modify it, and call it your own. I've seen computer companies take action over each other on this like Adobe v Macromedia, so why should the sandwich be different huh? I'm guess that this DID happen.......

Every country I know hasn't stuck to every treaty obligation it has assigned to, even Switzerland. Unless anyone can correct me here :fire

[Winphuk]

Originally posted by inflikted_damage
Maybe this question will be constructive: what can those of us in the states do to continue file sharing without too much fear of getting busted? I unfortunately chickened out the moment I read about the statement put out by the RIAA and stopped sharing. I have no desire to get busted by some random ip search but I also feel bad about not sharing and helping out the p2p community. What can I do?

If your worried about getting caught you can disable the feature that allows the browsing of your folder, so that they will believe you are only sharing that one file.

[WRFan]

Is the RIAA only going after americans?

lol. I think you misunderstand the very nature of RIAA: riaa is not a organisation interested in pure morality or some kind of ethics. It's a mere economic organisation, and therefore it pursues only economic interests of its own. RIAA represents the recording industry of the US, and therefore only goes after US citizens. If you are living in another country and download music from the net, then the respective businesses of other countries lose money, but not american businesses, because if you live in Canada, you wouldn't go to the US to buy music, even if you decided to buy it instead of downloading it. American music businesses sell distrubution licences to foreign firms. If you download music, then those european or asian or whatever distributors lose money, but not the american businesses, 'cause they already got their money from the foreign distributors. Meaning RIAA doesn't care. But of course there may be equivalent organisations in other countries too. But all this depends on the respective laws of the respective countries. Maybe your country doesn't allow isps to reveal information about their users. Then nobody will get your real identity, even if they request that info from your ISP. The US may allow/force isps to reveal info about their users, but thanx to God there are also some democratic countries out there, which, as opposed to the US, still believe in the concept of privacy as a basic human right, even if such privacy might hurt the economic interests of some greedy businesses