Didn't RIAA say that music 'piracy' had been stopped almost entirely by their lawsuits and DRM packages?

OMG! I just realized something! RIAA might be *losing* the battle against downloaders!

*panic*

That's just because the people at every other college are too smart to get caught.

Weaver, file sharing is in it's last throes in it's war against the RIAA.

Ya know.

Being that SC is the lowest-educated state in the nation, this somehow doesn't surprise me.

*panic*

According to USC (and every other college for that matter), the RIAA can suck it, and suck it hard.

The RIAA just continues to shoot themselves in the foot.

Even if there was a way of stopping downloading completely, it's not as though a bunch of college kids living on Ramen Noodles, are just gonna come up with a whole bunch of extra money to buy grossly overpriced CDs.

The RIAA is doing nothing but damage to the music industry.
Does anyone actually think that when the RIAA sues somebody, that the artists see even a penny of the proceeds?

They aren't exactly knocking on Lars Ulrich's door and saying "yay hooray, we just sued some old woman for $10k, here's your 83 cents".

They are little more than gangsters.

MP3, is not exactly "high fidelity", I'll be damned if I pay money for such an inferior product.

you know what to do, right?

Blame Canada!


*panics and also craps pants*

*panic*

according to everyone but the RIAA, the RIAA are pond-scum

*panic*

*hugs PeerGuardian*

better headline would include duke sucks...

WTF is 'Ruckus a legal file sharing program' Last I checked, all file sharing programs are legal, its just the uses you put them too.

/Loves DC++

*panic*

Oh, so it's South Carolina. There goes my joke about downloading Trojans.

*cough* emule *cough cough*

ARGH! THERE BE PIRATES!

/USC pleases FSM

Get WASTE and share with 1536 bits of encryption. My school (Clarkson University) cracked down on filesharing when we used DC++ and we switched over to waste, and there have been no problems for the past 2 years. Combine that with Azureus with encryption enabled to bypass the packet shaper, and you've got yourself a winning combination.

You'd think a major geek school like MIT or CalTech would be tops there, but Etchy333 said it best, they're too good to get caught.

And a curse upon your house, Flopsy. I've been on a prime rib binge here recently, and that made me salivate.

I have actually bought more CDs in the past year than I have in a LONG time. I have discovered some kick ass stuff from downloading that I just had to buy to get a better bitrate. 192k is shiat.

Oh, so the point of my post was that if I didn't steal, I wouldn't have not....stolen...later.

In the other 49 states, USC refers to the University of Southern California Spoiled Children.

Also, this thread is useless without College Lawsuit Top 40.

brywalker: I have actually bought more CDs in the past year than I have in a LONG time. I have discovered some kick ass stuff from downloading that I just had to buy to get a better bitrate. 192k is shiat.

Actually, thats a pretty common thing. There have been quite a few studies done(Google is your friend) that show that on average, people who pirate music are far more likely to go out and buy the CD than those who don't. The sad part in all of this is that the RIAA execs don't look for ways to improve and enhance their business model, they instead look for ways to stop others from moving past their antiquated setup. If they spent as much money coming up with new distribution models, easier access downloads, etc. as they do suing people, they'd see the kind of returns they had been used to in past eras. I guess it's just easier to scream "Pirates are killing music!" and sue people than actually sit down and think how to reduce piracy and still keep some sort of positive reputation with music fans.

It's just a situation that's gonna take years to show it's irreversible effect on the masses. More and more artists are going to independent labels or self-promoting over the internet. A generation of kids as young as 8 are getting sued or being made aware of things like BRM and Root Kit and changing their buying habits to avoid them. All the RIAA is doing is watching their house burn and in the mad dash to save it throwing kerosene on the whole mess rather than water.

In the other 49 states, USC refers to the University of Southern California Spoiled Children.

And they probably refer to you as a jealous little biatch.

/doesn't go to USC
//never cheers for them in sports
///realizes it is a wonderful university based on research funding, progress, etc.

Wait wait wait, her name is ginger demint

hahahaha

ccmods: Actually, thats a pretty common thing. There have been quite a few studies done(Google is your friend) that show that on average, people who pirate music are far more likely to go out and buy the CD than those who don't. The sad part in all of this is that the RIAA execs don't look for ways to improve and enhance their business model, they instead look for ways to stop others from moving past their antiquated setup. If they spent as much money coming up with new distribution models, easier access downloads, etc. as they do suing people, they'd see the kind of returns they had been used to in past eras. I guess it's just easier to scream "Pirates are killing music!" and sue people than actually sit down and think how to reduce piracy and still keep some sort of positive reputation with music fans.

The RIAA has no interest in music other than by profiteering from it... the same reason they went after radio even when it was shown that radios gave an exponential increase in racord sales, as well as cassetts and Reel to reel and avery technology since some dude banged two rocks together and thought it sounded kinda cool.

if they embraced high quality downloads on the cheap saving everyone involved money and lots of hastles it would create a better atmosphere for them to sell and promote their crappy music. That's why they are pushing the sales to the pre-teen crowd because they don't know to get ot for free yet... my daughter is learning though... and it's a good way for me to pre screen what she listens too...

serutan: History of Music

1877 - Thomas Edison invents music. Industrial Revolution, prosperity follow.
1999 - Sean Fanning releases Napster. World economy begins collapse.
2017 - Last surviving record company folds. Music ceases to exist. Famines, disease, nuclear winter.
2022 - Human beings extinct.

Music was invented in 1875. Get your facts straight.

/Musician, kick, replies, etc.

tonesskin

Actually, I got admitted, but decided not to attend. Nice try though.

USC deserves the hero tag for peeing in the RIAA"s pudding.

*whew* I got worried for a second, I go to University of Southern California! Tonesskin and "My First Fark Account" are both right, though. We're spoiled AND we do great research! The graduate and undergraduate programs here are quite different =)

"Thomas Edison invents music."

Music didn't exist prior to 1877?

/Fine, 1875.

wrong ck1938, USC deserves the hero tag for making shirts that say "COCKS".

Mara See Mara Do: Music was invented in 1875. Get your facts straight.

at least say recorded music... (that you could listen to, not written in scores)

Actually, I got admitted, but decided not to attend. Nice try though.


You talk about spoiled children then act like a spoiled child. Awesome.

Two things that would solve most problems for the common person:

1. Remove 'personhood' from corporations.
2. Restore copyright back to it's original intent of temporary monopoly, not something that gets extended every time Mickey Mouse is in danger of becoming public property.

Oh, also, I realize that you are also the same poster who will claim that you turned down MENSA because your IQ was just too high, that you make $1 million a year just for being a nice guy, and that most people's knees are too sharp.

I got to George Mason University here in Northern Virginia and my school has gotten Ruckus, which is not too bad. It's free for any student and it allows you to download songs to your computer that can only be played in the Ruckus player (they can't be transferred to Itunes or your IPod). However, there are lots of ways to bypass it....

GreenSlime: Two things that would solve most problems for the common person:

1. Remove 'personhood' from corporations.
2. Restore copyright back to it's original intent of temporary monopoly, not something that gets extended every time Mickey Mouse is in danger of becoming public property.

agrees

The RIAA can lick my sweaty ball sack as I download more totally FREE stuff.

/RIAA has four letters. shiat has four letters. Can't be coincidence.

for all the impossible to find rare tracks I usually check out allmymp3.com a buck or 2 per CD

not to mention butt pirates.

tonesskin

I aim to please.

...but actually the main reason I didn't go is that it ended up being something like $7k a year more expensive than RPI, which seemed like a better choice at the time since I thought I wanted to attend an Engineering school.

A few years and major changes later, I now realize just how stupid I was, oh well. Not to mention this farken thing they call winter...

MENSA? I farken wish, lol. $1 million a year? I'd consider myself fortunate to make 1/10 of that sometime in my life. And actually I do have boney joints, kinda annoying.

oops... www.allofmp3.com the reuuians told the RIAA to fark off and try and shut them down and the Russian government agreed with them.

My First Fark Account

I aim to please.

At least you aren't thin-skinned and can take snarks.

Welcome to TotalFark.

There are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market now that are just as tasty as the real thing.

Aren't most of beer caffeine free?

Oops, most beers.

Also, using Audacity to record Internet radio saves time. And is no different than recording from the radio.