After reading this article and this, I am at a loss. What is RIAA is trying to achieve? Totally alienate everyone? I think the copying for personal use has come before the courts before. Since IANL, I will leave the legal stuff to the people who know about them. RIAA, the only music I listen is what I hear over radio in my car and occasional listening/viewing on TV. May be you can take on TIVO like entities because they record music and TV shows.
I have not bought a CD in years (but we buy even more expensive Japanese music, which cost us twice as much as a US music CD, because we have a Japanese member in the family.) in protest to ugly practices of RIAA. But I think now I will visit stores looking for music that is not RIAA affiliated.
I hope musicians will learn that they are too being ripped off by a bunch and react properly. also I hope more of; "RIAA Gets opposition From Student Lawyers" , "RadioHead Might Find That Pot of Gold "In Rainbows"" and less of "Jamie Thomas appeals RIAA (Capital Records v Jammie Thomas) decision," this year and most preferably that RIAA finds a better way to protect IP, intellectual properties of artists, not pockets of few individual corporations.
Update;
I also saw the following article; Make your own deductions;
The only problem with the outrage over the news that the RIAA has begun to target CD ripping is that no such claim was made. RIAA lawyer Ira Schwartz, writing in a supplemental brief, made clear that the defendant was being targeted not for ripping CDs, but for putting songs in a shared Kazaa folder, making them available globally.
tag: RIAA, Music piracy, Music, Jamie Thomas,
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Next Step For RIAA, "Listening to Music is illegal"
Monday, October 15, 2007
Led Zeppelin Goes Online and Joins Digital Age
Looks like old dogs can learn new tricks! The Led Zeppelin is releasing all their songs for down load at online music stores. Come on Beatles, give in to Apple and be on iTune!
"We are pleased that the complete Led Zeppelin catalog will now be available digitally," Jimmy Page said in a statement. "The addition of the digital option will better enable fans to obtain our music in whichever manner that they prefer.", according to AP (via USA Today).
The albums being made available for download as of Nov. 13 include;
Led Zeppelin (1969), Led Zeppelin II (1969), Led Zeppelin III (1970), untitled fourth album (1971), Houses of the Holy (1973), Physical Graffiti (1975), Presence (1976), In Through the Out Door (1979), Coda (1982) and How the West Was Won (2003).
The band has signed a separate deal with Verizon Wireless to offer their songs as ringtones and downloads to mobile phones, Verizon said in a statement.
Monday, September 17, 2007
MIIVI is VIIDE and looks like wide open too!
MIIVI is VIIDE, while ago I wrote about Mediadefender using a site called Miivi to attract potential movie or music down loaders. They appeared to have change the name to viide but now it seems that mediadefender has become wide open instead! The same source TorrentFreak (Dugg) and ARS Technica (Slashdotted) reports about juicy details about the company.
Ironaically the leaked information was dilivered/distributed via bittorrent!, and everybody is going through personal details, contracts and contacts.
Before I could finish the article TF again posted about anothe leak, MediaDefender Phone Call and Gnutella Tracking Database Leaked
Well All those labels and movie companies that hired mediadefender to defend their products must be wondering about defense they got, from a company that even could not protect it self, even after a giant information leak!
The group supposed to be responsible for this havok, is Mediadefender defenders
