RIAA to halt lawsuits, cozy up to ISP's

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And they call us criminals.

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How embarassing... I have already posted this in the music discussion forum. Don't you feel silly?

Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now you fucking stupid bastard!

j/k. Hugs and kisses.

But seriously, I posted this in the music discussion forum earlier today

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I seldom go in there Zombie boy. So now go back to fucking yourself.

BTW, I glanced at your post and mine was more informative, I posted the whole article and you gave half and some links. So ha!!

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Music industry drops effort to sue song swappers
By RYAN NAKASHIMA ; AP Business Writer
Published: December 19th, 2008 12:01 PM | Updated: December 20th, 2008 06:46 AM
LOS ANGELES -- The group representing the U.S. recording industry said Friday it has abandoned its policy of suing people for sharing songs protected by copyright and will work with Internet service providers to cut abusers' access if they ignore repeated warnings.

The move ends a controversial program that saw the Recording Industry Association of America sue about 35,000 people since 2003 for swapping songs online. Because of high legal costs for defenders, virtually all of those hit with lawsuits settled, on average for around $3,500. The association's legal costs, in the meantime, exceeded the settlement money it brought in.

The association said Friday that it stopped sending out new lawsuits and warnings in August, and then agreed with several leading U.S. Internet service providers, without naming which ones, to notify alleged illegal file-sharers and cut off service if they failed to stop.

It credited the lawsuit campaign with raising awareness of piracy and keeping the number of illegal file-sharers in check while the legal market for digital music took off. With two weeks left in the year, legitimate sales of digital music tracks soared for the first time past the 1 billion mark, up 28 percent over all of last year, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

"We're at a point where there's a sense of comfort that we can replace one form of deterrent with another form of deterrent," said RIAA Chairman and Chief Executive Mitch Bainwol. "Filing lawsuits as a strategy to deal with a big problem was not our first choice five years ago."

The new notification program is also more efficient, he said, having sent out more notices in the few months since it started than in the five years of the lawsuit campaign.

"It's much easier to send notices than it is to file lawsuits," Bainwol said.

The decision to scrap the legal attack was first reported in The Wall Street Journal.

The group says it will still continue to litigate outstanding cases, most of which are in the pre-lawsuit warning stage, but some of which are before the courts.

The decision to press on with existing cases drew the ire of Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson, who is defending a Boston University graduate student targeted in one of the music industry's lawsuits.

"If it's a bad idea, it's a bad idea," said Nesson. He is challenging the constitutionality of the suits, which, based on the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999, can impose damages of $150,000 per infringement, far in excess of the actual damage caused.

Nesson's client, Joel Tenenbaum, faces the possibility of more than $1 million in damages for allegedly downloading seven songs illegally, which Nesson called "cruel and unusual punishment." The case is set to go to trial in district court in Massachusetts on Jan. 22.

Brian Toder, a lawyer with Chestnut & Cambronne in Minneapolis, who defended single mother Jammie Thomas in a copyright suit filed by the RIAA, said he is also set to retry the case March 9 after a judge threw out a $222,000 decision against her.

"I think it's a good thing that they've ended this campaign of going after people," Toder said.

"But they need to change how people spend money on records," he said. "People like to share music. The Internet makes it so easy. They have to do something to change this business model of theirs."

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My post is better and more longer

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I hate you.

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Son of a bitch!!!

I guess I will have to pull my media mogul money out of my latest project.



Good thing I got Insurance from Limp Bizkit Inc. against Lars ripping out the wiring from my house

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Lars let me down man, after that entire napster affair, he seemed a bigger pussy than the guy who created napster. That geeky white boy's a hero. Lars is a whiney bitch. All of Metallica is a bunch of pussies. Here it is the greatest band of all time bitching about emotions, and petty net downloading and shit. Lars is all, 'I'm gonna call my lawyer man'. What the fuck? Pussy, that's why I wouldn't even down load that shitty album from them, I'd downloaded cold play's latest and they'd kicked much more ass than metallica ever could. Pussies. The biggest cunt with the RIAA got more balls than Lars his bumbaclad pussy hole whiney finey mother fucking uptight bum hole.

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Best. Post. Ever.