Comments on: RIAA Defends Spending $17M to Collect $391,000

By: topcat

topcat — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:48:27 +0000

I’m a newshound, and in the typical news sources, the coverage of lawsuits for file sharing seems to me to have dried up. Now maybe I missed something, but if I’m not finding that news, what’s the chances of the typical music loving file sharing person happening on coverage of lawsuits targetting filesharers? Suing the pants off someone does no good for the RIAA if the publicity isn’t there, and if any publicity isn’t seen by their target audience.

I would suspect that those sharing files spend more time than most listening to music, watching movies, or playing games. They probably spend less time than most watching TV news or reading newspapers. Even if they win a lawsuit, the RIAA has to get that information out to folks who aren’t connected to traditional new media. Issuing a press release is about as impactful as shouting it in the desert.

Luckily for me I don’t need to come up with a coherent strategy for the RIAA lawsuit effort, because I sure can’t think of one.

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:40:11 +0000

[...] Jetzt verteidigt die RIAA im Juristen-Fachblatt “ABA Journal” ihr kostspieliges Vorgehen gegen Netz-Piraten. So gingen etwa häufig große Teile der eingeklagten Gelder direkt an die Geschädigten, und der Verband profitiere halt nicht in der Form von den Verfahren. Außerdem könne man das Verhältnis zwischen Ausgaben und Einnahmen bei derartigen Klagen nicht per Jahr messen, da sich Verhandlungen zum Teil über Jahre hinziehen – Argumente, die selbst die Pro-Filesharing-Seite ZeroPaid anerkennt. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:27:08 +0000

Go to http://www.peerblock.com download, install and upgrade.
Than go to http://www.iblocklist.com and add more lists with:

Companies or organizations who are clearly involved with trying to stop filesharing.
Companies which anti-p2p activity has been seen from.
Companies that produce or have a strong financial interest in copyrighted material.
Government ranges or companies that have a strong financial interest in doing work for governments.
Legal industry ranges.
IPs or ranges of ISPs from which anti-p2p activity has been observed.

For free. Its that simple.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:31:28 +0000

It won’t work. All They are doing is advertising that you can download whatever media you want for free. Sue Napster, you told me that i was missing out on downloading music for free. Sue Pirate Bay and I learned how to download Movies and TV. Make it harder to download…..No!!! you just told us we were missing out on the free stuff everyone else was getting. We’re all about free. and every lawsuit makes us better at finding/searching and security. They wont scare us, but they do tell us what they are looking for so we wont be available when the look for us .

By: Drew Wilson

Drew Wilson — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:00:59 +0000

Indeed. Exactly how effective are these campaigns? If they are spending that money on “education” campaigns, how effective has that been in practice? Are people flocking away from unauthorized sources and towards iTunes as a result? I doubt there has been a huge paradigm shift.

Trying to enforce royalty? Isn’t that what the copyright collectives are for?

DMCA notices? Doesn’t that require 5 people copying and pasting boilerplate threat letters and inserting flimsy time stamps and file names?

Regardless of where that money is going (my guess is that, at the very least, it’s a good majority of the money if going to lawsuits) If there was an intended effect socially, it hasn’t shown up in the US. Of course, the monetary rewards also speak for itself.

The RIAAs comments has not convinced me that they aren’t throwing their money away wastefully.

By: artist

artist — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:51:35 +0000

Money collected via the RIAA that is being spend to persecute humanity should be going to us artist. Instead only the RIAA bosses in bed with corrupt lobbying lawyers are getting their fair share.

Artists! Please unite, & sever your ties with the big labels. Only when all of their income sources dry will a revolution prevail, will artists be set free to do what they do best. Then we may even return to a day where the best creations are heard again and not some regurgitated bile.

Remeber: Lobbying lawyers won’t give two hoots about the RIAA when the RIAA can’t pay their legal fees.