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Termyn8or -> RE: The MAN is steppin on my groove man (3/15/2007 8:40:19 PM)
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Dude, this is a can of worms you might not be ready for. This is a longstanding fight, and to understand what is going on is to understand the RIAA etc., the music industry.
Record producers and agents, all the execs and all that may make more then the artists themselves, but the is because they make it off of many artists.
As such if you threaten revenues from any one part of what they normally collect for their service, they are sort of threatened on all fronts simultaneously. If they lose one they could lose it all.
The RIAA is the major opponent, the MPAA deals with movies. You said music. The RIAA is a typical business, and has gotten a measure of supremecy the American way, through acquisitions or mergers, or by letting some competitors join there "team". Nothing unusual here, and they are operating in their own best interest, and they interest of their stockholders.
They had the basic reverse class action "settlement" and induced an old Lady here and there to confess that they let their grandkids download music, promise to erase it alll and never do it again, but I'll never sign onto that. I already have my own defense planned and maybe it'll make case law.
I have contentions which are true and provable. They illustrate an offset, and in my case the offset might be bigger than the judgement they get from what I have downloaded. If just one case goes this way, and is not overtruned you will see changes.
I have an attic full of old LPs and CDs and 8 Tracks and cassettes, I have beta and VHS hifi tapes of concerts. The media is worn out, so I am countersuing for recompense based on that (NOT an offset, you can't win money with an offset). Oh no, even if I have to file a seperate case. If they win that one, it makes case law, which supports my case, they owe me replacements for all the times I paid $16 for an album it costs them less than a dollar to reproduce. I'll take it in MP3s, if necessary. But what I wouold like to do is come up with a few things they cannot replace.
Once blown out of the water like this, we should be OK. But the whole thing has to be gone through at least once. If a lawsuit actually costs them money, remember those sharholders. It is only logical to persue if you can win money.
There is alot more to this. Should I upload what I have so far for a response to such a suit ?
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