Anything they’ve released, I won’t even take the time to listen to it, when I can be mixing records, or writing some tunes.

Dear R.I.A.A., M.P.A.A., and the B.S.A.:

Instead of complaining about loss of sales that don’t even exist, why don’t you actually do something productive, like release something that’s beneficial. And a world without Microsoft wouldn’t be that bad. Who needs IE7 when we have university students and other brilliant minds who can write their own code, we can produce our own music, we are able to even produce our own films. Just go ahead and save yourself, and everyone else the headaches and tax dollars that you have stolen from the American people and come clean. The R.I.A.A.’s scare tactics do not impress me at all. We the people don’t need the services of the RIAA, MPAA, etc. anymore. We haven’t needed them in over 17 uryears.
So, I have a question for the RIAA and MPAA: if yourf movies can’t compete with the millions of films made by independent producers and self publishers, that’s not OUR responsibility that your content is mad boring, it’s called a free market. (well to a extent)
The RIAA and MPAA are nothing but a organized crime organization, that is seeking to profit in any means necessary, but although I’m not a customer this whole deal just doesn’t impress me one singlee bit. Every “anti-piracy” ad makes me laugh.

Good thing no one in the P2P communityh that I know of has sharks as pets. LOL

(BTW RIAA: Thank you for also helping to create the pirate. You shouldn’t even waste your time with DRM.

It’s dead, and no copy protection mechanism is perfect. The 21st century if the human race plays it’s cards right, will be free open source software, copy protection as a thing of the past, since we have to create things for future civilizations on the planet.

You’re right , most are intimidated by a true free market.

The problem, then (to clarify), is the disconnect between the responsible party and the party in charge of doing the work.

Great. The RIAA is responsible. How does that help me if it’s the university that inaccurately pinned me? At the very least, a bunch of people will have their time wasted…

That’s right. It’s not the University’s problem: it is the RIAA’s problem. The University is making best efforts to deliver the notices properly–but with technologies like DHCP, it can take significant effort (read: money) to track down the correct user–if that can in fact be done at all. With that language, the University is 1) establishing they are making a good faith effort to comply 2) protecting themselves from potential inaccuracies and 3) placing the blame for pursuing the wrong person on the doorstep of the RIAA. Which is where it belongs. They are the ones suing anonymous people based on IP numbers. They should bear the costs of tracking down the users and they should deal with the consequences of inaccurate information.

Last week, 40,000+ students at Purdue (including myself) received a warning email. In short, stop illegal downloads, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is coming. Purdue is advising all computer users to remove or at least partially d…