The RIAA Armageddon has begun

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OK, still there - but for how long???

Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 05:44 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

everyones replies seem to be "fucking florida"

it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link

just heard about this for the first time yesterday

http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/featured/66754/riaa-sues-limewire-for-75-trillion.htm

caulk the wagon and float it, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link

“As defendants note, plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is ‘more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877.’”

Mordy, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link

lol

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link

TRILLION

The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link

Mr Burns could pay it

it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link

we're all getting sued aren't we

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link

never used limewire nor have i ever met anyone who has

it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link

lol srsly, that's the funniest part. fucking limewire.

Mordy, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link

I'm countersuing the RIAA for $75-kajillion.

Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link

based on the number of downloads that the many users of Limewire could theortetically have made

also lol

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link

btw there's a separate thread now for the copyright troll firms
Copyright trolls to sue bands fans for illegal downloading.

it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link

"The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $675,000 file-sharing damages award that a jury levied against a college student for making 30 music tracks available on a peer-to-peer network."

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/supreme-court-file-sharing/

geeta, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link

I'm just waiting for the day when RIAA gains access to all of the world's hard drives and the onus somehow ends up on all of us to prove that every audio file on our computer was legally purchased.

heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link

yeah man i think my days of downloading are over. which sucks because i really dig collecting bootlegs and out of print stuff.

but at least there is spotify now.

wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link

no bootlegs on spotify though :'(
just too bad -- i mean, i know for a fact that there are bands who i've posted live tapes by who are fans of my blog! can't the riaa just leave us alone, mannnnn.

tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link

I just go to the library and burn CDs now.

how's life, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link

I wish my library carried more CDs! The classical section is decent, but hasn't been added to at all in the five years I've lived here. The non-classical CDs are laughable at best with the weirdest collection of stuff that basically looks like it was donated after every used CD store in the region rejected them.

heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link

My library system has a transfer system, where you can go on their online catalog and request for materials from other branches to be transferred to your branch.

how's life, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link

Which is to say, have you looked into that possibility?

how's life, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link

Ours has that too, but, last time I checked, you actually had to pay a minimal fee to transfer media (movies and music) from another library system. Ours actually only has two branches (the non-main one is tiny and carries only books and magazines), so you have to have it shared from another system. Usually not worth the time/wait/hassle.

heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link

Shit, we talked about this on the suburbs thread, didn't we? Or similar. Wait, it was beach access or something. Where do you live anyway? I always presumed Chicago by your name.

how's life, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link

My friend calls the library Swedish iTunes, for some reason. Maybe based on how long it takes him to request, say, a Louis Armstrong boxed set, get it home, then copy the whole thing to his computer.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link

lol. my scottish grandfather always used to complain about those "goddamned lazy swedes".

how's life, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link

Just north of Chicago in Evanston actually. I need to look into how I can tap into the Chicago system.

heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link

Think this news item fits here pretty nicely:

Metallica keep touring due to royalty cuts

Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link

my heart bleeds for millionaire rockers leading millionaire lifestyles

it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, I mean...it pretty much sounds like he's saying they're "forced" to tour now because the days when they could piss away millions of dollars between albums are over. Let me switch on my violin-playing nanomachine for ya, brohams.

Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link

yeah i mean if releasing THE BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM OF THE SOUNDSCAN ERA doesn't pay your bills then i don't know what

some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link

Did Lulu really sell that much?

tylerw, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

No, it was S&M.

how's life, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link

isn't this story like a year old?

cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link

maybe its a constant bane on these rich rockstars lives

it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link

can you believe this shit, having to play to sold out stadium audiences every goddamn summer like some kind of pathetic animal

some dude, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link

never used limewire nor have i ever met anyone who has

LimeWire's the only P2P I've ever used, tbh.

Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/29/google_copyright_takedown_requests/

Google now gets 250k copyright takedown requests EACH WEEK
More than all requests made during all of 2009

Milton Parker, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link

Von Lohmann said that Google tries to make the notice and takedown process as quick and efficient as possible and had last week been able to process requests on average within 11 hours. However, he said the company also attempts to "catch erroneous or abusive removal requests".

"We recently rejected two requests from an organization representing a major entertainment company, asking us to remove a search result that linked to a major newspaper’s review of a TV show," he said. "The requests mistakenly claimed copyright violations of the show, even though there was no infringing content."

"We’ve also seen baseless copyright removal requests being used for anticompetitive purposes, or to remove content unfavorable to a particular person or company from our search results. We try to catch these ourselves, but we also notify webmasters in our Webmaster Tools when pages on their website have been targeted by a copyright removal request, so that they can submit a counter-notice if they believe the removal request was inaccurate."

Milton Parker, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link

slow clap

Milton Parker, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link

this could be embarrassing for some people hahah
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18281187

it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link

& this is more about software than music, but a good indicator of the real game that's being played. RIAA wish they were playing chess at this level.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/microsoft-requests-takedowns-from-google-but-content-remains-on-bing/

Here you’ll find requests from companies that have asked Google to take down URLs for copyright infringement. Who’s the most prolific takedown requester? It’s Microsoft, which has requested that more than 2.5 million URLs be removed. But here’s the kicker: Microsoft has asked Google to remove URLs from its search results, while leaving some of those very same URLs active on its own search engine, Bing.

Milton Parker, Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link

haha, wow.

tylerw, Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link

hahaha

it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link

"Bing, the filesharing-friendly search engine, pwning GOOG since 2012"

cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link

Ben Dover Productions says the pornographic industry has been "decimated" by piracy

Tragic.

seven league bootie (James Morrison), Friday, 1 June 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link

pouring one out in honor of Peter North ;_;

Chris S, Friday, 1 June 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link


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