EFF Ad Campaign On File Swapping 501
miladus writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation is launching an ad campaign
to
counter the RIAA's lawsuits about file
swapping. There are more details available at the File Sharing: It's Music To Our Ears subsite." The press release kicking off this campaign says that "EFF's Let the Music Play campaign provides alternatives to the RIAA's litigation barrage, details EFF's efforts to defend peer-to-peer file sharing, and makes it easy for individuals to write members of Congress."
Shouldn't that be... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Even better *HINT* (Score:2, Informative)
If that were the case there would be anarchy in the streets and nobody would pay any taxes. No, sometimes the law is more than the sum of popular opinion for the good of the citizens, whether they understand that or not. Without a stable government telling people what to do it would be chaos.
Troll, troll, troll (Score:5, Informative)
Copyright violation is a tort, you can be sued for it.
There is a difference.
Re:EFF wants alternatives to the current system (Score:3, Informative)
In other words, the old fashioned CD sales make the record companies a lot more profit. They are used to having a very strong grip on this industry and are now kicking around hard to try to keep it that way.
Is this is a result of our free market economy in which this unregulated corporate behaviour is just a unfortunate side effect? EFF has put up it's opinion. Go take sides!
Re:That's because... (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:Even better *HINT* (Score:2, Informative)
wrong (Score:2, Informative)
Remember mp3.com, way back when, decided to buy a shitload of albums, rip/encode them and offer them as part of the MyMP3.com service? In a nutshell, registered users who owned the album could access the mp3.com encoded versions of those songs online (after being validated by some sort of hash match with their own purchased album).
Well, the RIAA said nope sorry bzzt. Court upheld it too. If you own an album, you may back it up. In other words, you can rip YOUR OWN mp3s from that physical media. But you can't legally download someone else's mp3s of the exact same songs that were encoded from a different physical media.
Yes it is the law, and yes it is stupid and non-intuitive.
Re:The Only Sure Way to Stop the RIAA (Score:2, Informative)
Re:The best shot we've got... (Score:2, Informative)
The RIAA is a collection of corporate monopolists in an industry with a long history of mob ties, criminality and unfair treatment of artists.
They have, over the years, through a system of ongoing bribes, induced our legislators into passing laws giving them extraordinary monopolistic rights of great commercial value. These monopolistic rights are totally at variance with the interests and values of artists, consumers, computer users and citizens in general.
For a long time, the great majority of people took little notice of the continuous stream of legislation that gave these extraordinary rights to this group, since it's direct impact on the average person was limited. With the advent of new technologies, however, these laws have now come into direct conflict with the public interest. These new technologies have sparked the creation of new resources and channels that are of great use and interest to the public.
The RIAA, to protect their enourmous profits, are determined to destroy the new resources and restrict the public's use of technology, so that they may continue to live lavish lifestyles while producing nothing but artifical scarcity. They plan to do this through the expenditure of large sums of money on bribes to the powerful, and propoganda to fool and divide the general public.
THIS is what the EFF is campaigning against.
I hope this answers your question satisfactorily.
label that completely supports filesharing (Score:2, Informative)
our first full release, wtf the madonna remix project, is fully available for download on most p2p networks (kazaa, limewire, soulseek, KDX) & we encourage you to continue sharing it online & via word of mouth once you download it if you like it. (of course, we'd love you support if you'd also like to buy it from our site too!)
I would think most of the people on here would like it or at least get a chuckle from it...its electronic, collages, & samples. check out tracks 2, 13, & 14.
also, please read our articles [justablip.co.uk], there may be something of interest to you guys if you are passionate about music.
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No, it's really not ''theft'' (Score:3, Informative)
It's up to each person to make up his own mind with regard to the ethical issue. But an ethical system that doesn't distinguish between appropriation of scarce goods (my car, my clothes) and abundant ones (air, digital bits, a public park) is pretty naive, in my opinion. There can be many good reasons to regulate the latter, but they're not the same ones as the former.
Re:Newsflash!! Collective punishment is wrong. (Score:1, Informative)
sorry to break it to you, but if you live in the US then you already pay an RIAA tax on blank audio cd's. That's why they say "audio", so they can place a levy on it. The solution? well, for now just continue to buy blank media not specifically labeled as "audio".
Re:Alright, first off filesharing isn't exactly ba (Score:3, Informative)
Unless I misunderstand what you're saying, the above is quite untrue. Copyright existed long before the Sony Bono act, which I think occurred in the late 1990s, and the act increased copyright far beyond 14 years; something like "death of copyright holder plus 50 years".