Always on the lookout for ways to push back against the recognition that any unauthorized copying is legal, the RIAA has filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief in a copyright infringement case brought by a Las Vegas firm.
Righthaven LLC is a company formed by lawyer Steve Gibson and the publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Its sole purpose was to purchase the right to bring ... [ read the full article ]
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I hate double speak with a passion... Then to have the RIAA come in & ride on the coat tails of triple/quadruple speak is just begging to have someone shot in the head. Meaning, if you can't get your argument won in the first person, you lost. Tuck your tail between your legs, trot home & cry over a bowl of puppy shit shit. Your mommy will either love more or less accordingly.
I'm over this "make a win out of it at any cost" society we've become. Somebody rises from futility & makes something of themselves, but a bunch of leeches want a free ride. If he/she doesn't play along they get tore down by legal means or murdered by the same poor suck asses of the slums who refused to make the same decisions early on.
MPAA/RIAA, Crack druggy fanatic gangstas grasping at last ditch effort straws for easy money off the backs of people who already have barely enough to eat... can you tell the difference? Just barely.
Originally posted by LordRuss: MPAA/RIAA, Crack druggy fanatic gangstas grasping at last ditch effort straws for easy money off the backs of people who already have barely enough to eat... can you tell the difference? Just barely.
There is a difference...drug dealers are far more honest. Also, drug dealers generally don't exploit people who don't use drugs. RIAA and MPAA regularly exploit people who are not members by issuing takedown requests against their official uploads, and by making people so fed up with the industry that they won't buy from anyone. I know it is a major pain for me to buy music...usually I find a CD I want, look at the back cover, see, "Sony" or some other RIAA supporter, and have to skip buying that CD. If the RIAA went away I would probably go broke buying all the CDs that I can't currently buy with a clean conscience.
Originally posted by KillerBug: There is a difference...
I was being factious, but I get your point. Even though I could juxtapose a bunch of similarities as to how the entertainment industry has 'hooked' the global community on their wares similar to a drug, you're right; the violence & justice of the drug trade is left in their yard (if you will).
However, you will have to secede a bit in that even in that trade it does spill out into innocent people. Those undeserving. And like the drug the drug cartels of Mexico, it's starting to get way the f'k out of control.
Law enforcement seems to think shooting most of those individuals on sight (in a given situation) is a good way of dealing with them. Seeing as they're a localized nomadic, heavily armed outfit, I can see how that might be a viable solution.
The RIAA/MPAA & associated cling-ons seem to be global & corporately financed to the n-th degree. Their weaponry (at the moment) is the judicial system & they're using it without prejudice, just as an outlaw would. When do we get a Dirty Harry of the lawyers to step up & start .44 magnum-ing these bastards out of the system?
I wish I could, but I only know the language of profane.
