The RIAA Armageddon has begun

I want Scott Ian's facial hair banned from life.

not just 'banned from the internet' ?

Before the internet, the only way to steal music was to walk into a music store and physically walk out with something, and you were stealing, and you knew it. You knew, unless you’re a fucking maniac, that there was a consequence. If you got caught, you were going to get in trouble.

Nobody tell him about cassette recorders.

eh, I don't see anything wrong with the idea. they're trying it in France and I think some other countries.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2011/10/07/french-government-disconnect-60-file-sharer/1

"So until there is a consequence, it’s going to happen more and more and more, and people are going to see less and less original and good content from the record industry and movie industry.”

oh reeeeeeeally now

Keen to know what this "Scott Ian" bloke has done to keep up with market trends

made shitty bandwagonjumping records for 20 years

lol at anybody on ilx thinking they can say shit about scott ian, dude's a legend, show yr work or stfu imo

He's a super nice dude.

ALSO WHERE'S *YOUR* SUPER-GOATEE ILXORS. <3 Scott Ian for all time.

people are going to see less and less original and good content from the record industry and movie industry

LOL

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/american-isps-to-launch-massive-copyright-spying-scheme-on-july-12/

oh, how delightful

*downloads furiously*

lol yeah, I guess I have a couple months to run my ratios into the dirt before I quit using private trackers altogether.

"although publicly, none of the network operators have agreed to “terminate” a customer’s service."

interesting.

So basically, if no injunction filed, no more downloading free shit from Mediafire, et al after July 1.

*July 12

would slsk downloads register here?

really don't download a lot of officially released/in-print stuff, but am bummed that this probably means the end of all the cool bootleg-y/live blogs out there. including mine!

They'll pry tyler's 82 tom verlaine solo gig bootleg mp3s from my cold dead hands

amen to that!

was thinking i'd just start doing a "bootleg of the month" CDR-by-mail subscription club. they aren't opening everyone's mail yet, are they? they probably are.

just sort of constantly amazes me how much power the RIAA and the MPAA really have

yea look what they did to District 13

how can they know what is being downloaded? wont that break data protection acts? They brought in a new law doing away with data protection??

really think the music industry needs to go to a model where all musicians get paid a base salary by the label, and gives them bonuses based on incentives (ie sales benchmarks like a bonus for going platinum, etc), and quit focusing on who paid for which individual unit.

make all music available via some pay for service that doesn't charge by unit, but just a flat rate or something.

the old model just ain't gonna fly anymore.

you'll have to pry the old model out of their cold dead hands... which I am totally cool with.

yeah I don't realistically see it happening until some kind of impasse is reached, and well given how much leeway they're given to do whatever they want, don't think that's anywhere near.

arranging chairs on the titanic

RIAAgnarok

All of this might just bring back the era of paying for bootlegs...

or the days of driving by the library to torrent shit

If this keeps on we'll end up in a terrifying world in which every piece of content is made available simultaneously worldwide at a reasonable price

No, I'm fairly certain that this will be the measure which finally prompts the populace of earth to view their wanton disregard for intellectual property rights with shame and disgust, vowing forevermore to keep their noses clean and suckle contentedly at the teats of their corporate masters. It'll be like when we won the War on Drugs back in the '80s.

restrict access to only certain major websites like Google, Facebook or a list of the top 200 sites going

The future of the internet: TV.

Agreed, when the people stop worrying about the rights of artists and start weeping for the lost sales of conglomerates we'll be in a better place xp

in the future there will be no recorded music. bands will play their music live into a microphone on demand.

in that case, RIP loudness war

as much as I was hoping this would be fake I suppose it does succeed in 1) pissing off customers and 2) generating virtually no revenue, so it at least seems like a legitimate RIAA idea

Even if they shut down the whole internet for good, most people already have more music than they could possibly listen to in several lifetimes.

lol frogbs

july 12th is my birthday!

They can require that an alleged repeat offender undergo an educational course before their service is restored. They can utilize multiple warnings, restrict access to only certain major websites like Google, Facebook or a list of the top 200 sites going, reduce someone’s bandwidth to practically nothing and even share information on repeat offenders with competing ISPs, effectively creating a sort of Internet blacklist — although publicly, none of the network operators have agreed to “terminate” a customer’s service.

This is so goddamn stupid, people pay for internet service and are likely going to drop their ISP the instant they pull any of this shit, and whichever ISP decides to actually not spy on their customers is going to be the go-to company for anyone who's even a little internet savvy. Throughout their entire existance "give the customers what they want" has never been an option for the RIAA so this is not surprising in the least.

It says so much about the fucked wiring in their heads that they always opt for taking punitive measures towards (potential) customers over restructuring their business model in response to changing trends. Western Union didn't send thugs around to shoot people's dogs if they deigned to use a telephone, iirc.

unfortunately most people in America don't have real choices when it comes to ISPs. For broadband internet I can choose between Verizon, Comcast and RCN. The first two have agreed to sign up for this program, not sure about RCN (which I use). I can't just drop RCN because they decided to send me copyright nastygrams because the alternatives aren't any better.

I'm kind of in the same boat, but I assume for people in bigger cities there's more of a choice?

I would guess that one major ISP would opt out of this? Honestly if the RIAA's learned anything (obviously they haven't) it's that measures like this NEVER produce the intended result; look at all the fallout from copy-protection. I'd assume if one ISP just publicly came out and said "we'll keep everything private", they'd get a ton of business post-July?

There's a case like this going on in Australia, in which AFACT (a shady group funded by Hollywood) is suing an ISP for 'authorising' copyright infringement. AFACT lost the case and the appeal, and now they're thrashing out a further high court appeal. You know, instead of selling their stuff.

My property management company only allows Comcast in their buildings, not only for cable and internet, but for land line telephone, too, for Christ's sake.

Someone told me this is illegal, but idk. Whether it is illegal or not, it's fucked up.

Wouldn't encrypted browsing/file sharing get around this? I'm kinda dumb about this stuff, but you know... TOR or something?