Take THAT RIAA!

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• Rhett (Not even a monkey)

  January 2003

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• PJH The Lovely Thing

  January 2003

  Awesome! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
  
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• Rogue Trader Somebody stop him...

  January 2003

  the Riaa and MPPA own what they make and have the right to do with it as they please.
• Argone Genuine Klingon

  January 2003

  Good for em! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
  
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• Bekenn Sinclair's Duck

  January 2003

  Any judge worth his salt will just throw out this case; the arguments made by Sharman are just ludicrous, and not at all in line with US law.
  
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• Captain,Simmonds Trainee trainee

  January 2003

  About God damn time.
• AnlaShok Democrat From Hell

  January 2003

  And if the RIAA wins, how are they going to enforce the ruling of a U.S. court in Australia?
  
  Besides, this is like making the ISP responsible for the content of email. Or making the post office responsible for the contents of letters. Or hell, why not sue HP, Dell, Toshiba, IBM, and Sony for making the computers these files are on?
  
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• Vertigo1 Official Fuzzy Dice of FirstOnes.com

  January 2003

  [quote]Originally posted by Rogue Trader:
  [b]the Riaa and MPPA own what they make and have the right to do with it as they please.[/b][/quote]
  
  You mean they have the right to violate a court ruling which ordered them to lower CD prices (which they have YET to do btw)? Interesting...
  
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• Rogue Trader Somebody stop him...

  February 2003

  but it is there product, should they have to lower it?
  
  if i make lemonade and sell it for 2 bucks a glass instead of 25 cents, is it wrong? bad business yes but not wrong because it is my product and i can do what i want with it.
  
  dont get me wrong i dont like the RIAA, they are evil on its most basic level. But they own there stuff.
• Rogue Trader Somebody stop him...

  February 2003

  [quote]Originally posted by Vertigo1:
  [b] You mean they have the right to violate a court ruling which ordered them to lower CD prices (which they have YET to do btw)? Interesting...
  
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  what if that court ruling was wrong?
  
  wouldnt be the first time a court was wrong.
• Vertigo1 Official Fuzzy Dice of FirstOnes.com

  February 2003

  Thing is, they DON'T *own* the product. They distribute it. Thats like saying Interplay owns Freespace, when in reality Volition does. (Talking about the game itself, not the license.) Interplay just provided a means of distribution. The RIAA just holds the licences to ensure that only THEY can distribute said material, so they can't take the same material to another company and make money that the RIAA can't touch.
  
  The problem here is that the RIAA is the only mainstream means of distribution in the US, so by definition they're a monopoly. (Which was what that court case was all about, and why the RIAA was ordered to lower their prices.)
  
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