Kazaa.. Please be careful.

chuyler1 said:
Law Inforcement will let many drug users slide if they can get the dealer they got the drugs from. Its the same thing with music.

I really hope all this controversy cuts away the fat off the recording industry. Its about the musicians. They get pennies from the album sales while the industry eats up the dough. Bring back real musicians and I'll pay for their albums. They are pushing alot of no talent pretty people now that probably don't know the difference between major and minor.
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I agree ... The music industry has turned into a profit machine, spitting out mundane, recipied songs right after another to adoring 12 to 14 year olds who'll faint at the sight of an equally untalented pop idol in hot pants. I refuse to buy CD's from singers and labels who are all about the bling-bling and not the beats (that and I can't stand their "music" anyway).

It's incredibly easy to spot the artists that put their music above money ... Those I'm more than happy to support.
 
f*ck it, RIAA can kiss my azz, brn in hell, suck my d*ck, and above all, may that b**** cary whatsherface spokewoman for RIAA die for suing a 12 yr old, i mean s***, teh reason we have that 18 and 16 and 21 yr old rule is cuz the government thinks people younger cant really make decisions for themselves, so the girl did this, well, shes 12, she dosnt know any better, wtf??? that has got to be the most ****** up thing i've heard, i have half a mind to sue the RIAA for being dumbasses asswipes and above-all impersonal greedy rich white dicks from Hell just cuz what they r doing makes no sense... grrr..
 
Also, it's hard to find songs, i.e Salsa or Gypsie from the early 80's that I can find anywhere else. So it's nice to know I may be able to find them on a file sharing network like Kazaa or Limewire


I also like a lot of old stuff you cant find on cds anymore and it is nice to be able to know that i can go home and do a little searching and find a song i havent heard in years and cant find on any other kind of media.
i also agree that the industry gets way more money than they deserve and the artist dont get thier fair cut. at the same time they include way to many bad songs and not enough real music.
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Sound Quality is also a big thing for me. On your average PC speakers you can't really tell the difference between a CD and an MP3. But play an MP3 on a mid to high end set of speakers, or a top-notch car audio install, and the differences become obvious with the right type of music.

Even though I owned the Eagle's Greatest Hits Vol 2, I downloaded "Hotel California", the live version (one of the target songs they are looking for), years ago. I liked it so much I went and bought the cd so I could hear what it was supposed to sound like. This July I paid $175 to see them at the Fleet Center, Floor section A.

That is a case in point where downloading music can benefit the industry.

This of course only works when the music is good. If you download several songs from an album and realize that the only song you like is the one they play on the radio every hour, you're not going to buy the cd now are you? The recording industry has more problems than illegal sharing.
 
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I wonder if I'll get contacted...

I've downloaded/shared close to 350gb of music, images, movies and files via the school network. I've since ceased and changed my IP but nevertheless I'm sure my name, email, AIM something must have leaked to someone.
 
when i read the story about the 12 year old girl i couldn't help but laugh...obviously somebody at the RIAA didn't do their homework...truthfully it's just a black eye for the RIAA...the public is going to see this and eat it up...a 12 year old honor student vs. the big bad RIAA suing her for hundreds of thousands of dollars...

then there was the other story of the old man being sued because his grandchildren come over and use his computer to download music...he didn't even know what kazaa was...and i'm sure most old people usually listen to metallica
 
spazspike said:
I wonder if I'll get contacted...

I've downloaded/shared close to 350gb of music, images, movies and files via the school network. I've since ceased and changed my IP but nevertheless I'm sure my name, email, AIM something must have leaked to someone.
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what school do you go to?? last year Arizona state started to send out the internet police...lol...some girl almost got expelled for downloading and sharing music/movies
 
chuyler1 said:
Sound Quality is also a big thing for me. On your average PC speakers you can't really tell the difference between a CD and an MP3. But play an MP3 on a mid to high end set of speakers, or a top-notch car audio install, and the differences become obvious with the right type of music.

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I also have this take about file-sharing. The average MP3 is 128k or so. I equate file-sharing to taping a CD from a friend. You are NOT stealing the CD. You don't get packaging, Cd quality sound, extra stuff, etc. The RIAA lobbied hard to stop home tape recorders, but were overruled. File sharing only provides a more convenient means of sharing, which, as of now, is legal. VCRs were once thought to be the death blow to the movie industry, but we know how that turned out.

I'm all for a laissez faire capitalism, but going after someone whose sharing who wouldn't otherwise buy their product anyway is a shame.

MP3 = tape recording
 
spazspike said:
I wonder if I'll get contacted...

I've downloaded/shared close to 350gb of music, images, movies and files via the school network. I've since ceased and changed my IP but nevertheless I'm sure my name, email, AIM something must have leaked to someone.
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If you've honestly stopped doing that for good then my hope is that they skip over you. The RIAA is certainly not suing with the idea that they will profit from the lawsuits.....it's a tactic intended to persuade illegal file sharers to stop.....if you've already stopped then I believe that is all they are asking at this time.
 
the prgram i use is pretty safe actually, its not peer to peer so im safe :) plus im in canada not usa ,double safe ;)
 
Well, people quickly found out how much tapes (cassettes) suck. I place MP3s far above the SQ of a cassette, especially one that has been sitting in the glovebox of someone's car for 2 years.

And with Video, the latest craze is DVD. We all know you can't just download a DVD online, nor can you download an actual CD. People are buying DVDs like crazy now because they offer so much more than just a few tracks of music. The recording industry should catch on and start pushing DVD-Audio real hard. For example, Metallica's new album comes with a DVD of their live performance or something right? Unfortunatly the new album sucks musically but if it didn't I would go buy it just for the DVD.

How hard is it to sell a CD/DVD that comes with the artist's music video and lots of extras. Interviews with the artists, explanations of the songs, before-and-after edit sessions, live cuts, the list goes on.

A new DVD costs about what a new CD costs, maybe $10 more depending on the movie or the artist. Wake up RIAA and make a better product.
 
Do they only go for people who downloaded an extensive amount of songs? or do they also go for people who've downloaded very little?
 
i think this is all BS...the bands don't make much money off cd's at all...so why are people like metallica bitching? hell, you can record dave matthews' shows...does he b****? no! all he asks is that you share them, not sell them. how many times have you bought a cd for just 1 or 2 songs? hell, they're not hurting anyone but themselves. they're showing what greedy bastards they really are...trying to sue a 12 year old...how ******* wrong is that? there is nothing illegal with "sharing." if record labels didn't charge so much for a dams $2 cd, there wouldn't be a problem. dumbasses.
 
I agree they are greedy bastards. They waste all this money to try and sew poor people who evidently already dont have any. Why dont they try using this money to create jobs for the homless, or people good enough jobs to afford a 10 20 dollar cd with like 2 or 3 songs that you will like anyways.
 
Write them and ask them that about the jobs. THey are a bunch of morons with way to much time on their hands.
 
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