RIAA Now Targeting Retailers

merodach writes "According to this story on Headlinenews.com the RIAA is now targeting retailers in it's 'war on piracy.' I think everyone will agree this is something that should be done if the retailer is deliberately pirating. The thing I wonder about in hearing this news is how many of the retailers include used copy stores. With the way the RIAA and some artists *cough*Garth Brooks*cough* have labeled these stores as pirates and theives in the past it seems likely they would be the biggest targets. Have any in the /. crowd actually seen one of the letters sent or know how many of the targeted businesses are used stores? Further - how would the RIAA know how much to demand in 'settlement fees' and is it possible these are being used to shut down the mom-and-pop outfits that trade in used CDs?"

up next - shrink wrap licenses for CD's...

[ruebarb]

I can see it now....

you have bought the new Britney Spears CD...congratulations on your excellent choice and fine musical selection...

LEGALESE: - This CD may not be resold or reproduced in any matter...opening this CD certifies that you agree to this stipulation.

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and the legal warning will be on the inside of the CD...bastards..

on the bright side, that should galvanize mainstream support against them...maybe only a small percentage download mp3's, but I'm willing to be a higher proportion of people use used mom and pop shops....if for no other reason then to acquire out of print material...shut those down and America will maybe open their eyes...

of course...they do buy Britney Spears...how smart can they be...

RB

RIAA! Get the Salvation Pirate Army!!!

[teamhasnoi]

There has never been a Salvation Army that has *not* had a box of PIRATED cassettes, CDs, software, and videos.

I say Hillary should go on down to the Salvation Army and get into a fight with a drunk about whether or not he can buy those "New Kids on The Block" and "Menudo" cassettes.

Maybe they'll take her in the back room and beat her head with a 40 Oz. 'till the white meat shows.

Sigh...dare to dream...

Garth Brooks *ahem*

[FrostedWheat]

I'm sorry, but using the word 'artist' and 'Garth Brooks' in the same sentence is just not right.

Shame on you!

misplaced cough

[Neil Sausage]

It should had read
With the way the RIAA and some *cough*artists*cough* Garth Brooks have labeled ...

My solution

[BoomerSooner]

1)Open a CD Shop.
2)Sell the original with a copy CD with the tracks in mp3/ogg/whatever as a backup/digital medium copy.
3)Shovel millions to lawyers.
4)Counter sue for violating fair use.
5)After losing every court battle give up and bitch about it on slashdot.

Only fair...

[gilroy]

Blockquoth the poster:

By reading this you of sound mind and body fully agree to relinquish ownership of your soul to the RIAA.

Well, that's only fair. I mean, it's pretty obvious they've lost their own...

RIAA Business Plan

[Mansing]

As a business plan, suing everyone is not very clever. What happens when the RIAA has sued all of their customers, retailers, and distributors?

Does that mean they'll finally go away?

Re:My solution

[The Bungi]

6) ?
7) Profit!!!

Re:UHHH

[SoSueMe]

Shhhh... They'll hear you!

Now the RIAA will have to sue the libraries.

[Hidyman]

If you can simply go to the local library and borrow a cd what is to stop you from ripping it. And since all customers are pirates, the only logical conclusion is to sue those libraries.
Oh, wait, we had better call the MPAA because I just found out you can get the books that some movies are based on, then you can take them home and type them into Word and print them out. Maybe they should sue MS for creating a software program that can be used to copy copyrighted material.
I'm glad we have some responsibe organizations looking out for our interests.

Re:Don't forget duplicity!

[Kibo]

It's also worth noting that there were only one thousand discs involved, each one had the one decent song off thirty five otherwise crappy albums.

An article soon to come...

[sven_kirk]

Car makes to sue all used car dealerships.

And, I just can't wait until the day I have to pay royalties for a cd that I have already purchased.

Is this the only factual error?

[Backov]

Perhaps the 35,000 illegally copied music disks was actually 20000, but quite a few of them were Britney Spears and Eminem disks, so they are "effectively" 2 disks each, unlike the Garth Brooks disks, which are only effectively .65 disks.

Cheers,
Backov

Re:When I lived in Chgo...

[Anonymous Coward]

We're sorry MacAndrew dumped you, but please try to settle it in court, not on /.