Music industry sues 83 year old dead woman
Automagfreek
05-02-2005, 19:17
LINK (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050204/ap_on_fe_st/music_lawsuit)
This is just plain sad! When the record industry starts suing people who aren't even alive, you know that something has gone terribly wrong here. I mean seriously, this is one of the worst things they've done yet, save for suing little kids.
Erastide
05-02-2005, 19:20
:D
Gotta love their stupidity. Let's sue all the dead people for damages! Leave the living alone!
Tigermilk
05-02-2005, 19:27
LINK (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050204/ap_on_fe_st/music_lawsuit)
This is just plain sad! When the record industry starts suing people who aren't even alive, you know that something has gone terribly wrong here. I mean seriously, this is one of the worst things they've done yet, save for suing little kids.
Wow i thought it was just a proverb but that seems to be a literal case of someone being blinded by greed...
it would be funny if it wasn't so damn sick... :(
World wide allies
05-02-2005, 19:31
Wow ..
The music business are really desperate arn't they :p
And the award for this weeks craziest news story goes to......
Although this is actually fairly sick. A company suing an old, dead, woman for a crime she couldn't have committed, just for the sake of a few thousand dollars.
Sad but true. :( They only want to make money in the short term real bad when this is an opportunity for many years to come! (i.e. radio) Downloading is becoming the new version of radio as all radio is now is commercials, talk, more talk, and (in the US anyway) crap!
New Foxxinnia
05-02-2005, 19:57
Sad but true. :( They only want to make money in the short term real bad when this is an opportunity for many years to come! (i.e. radio) Downloading is becoming the new version of radio as all radio is now is commercials, talk, more talk, and (in the US anyway) crap!There's always satillite radio.
Reaper_2k3
05-02-2005, 19:58
everybody find an riaa email and send them hatemail
the riaa is completely off their rocker suing anyone and anything they can get theri grubby hands on for trading music. 10 bucks says the next lawsuit names aa monkey or something that scientists were teachnig how to use computers
Bureaucracia
05-02-2005, 19:58
That IS sad. And twisted. And messed up.
Jeez...
Doctor Taylor
05-02-2005, 20:13
everybody find an riaa email and send them hatemail
the riaa is completely off their rocker suing anyone and anything they can get theri grubby hands on for trading music. 10 bucks says the next lawsuit names aa monkey or something that scientists were teachnig how to use computers
Wow... that'll achieve a lot.
Andaluciae
05-02-2005, 20:14
The RIAA is...funny...and retarded.
Bunnyducks
05-02-2005, 20:16
It's about time! The 83 year old dead ladies have leeched on us for long enough!
Cogitation
05-02-2005, 20:43
LINK (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050204/ap_on_fe_st/music_lawsuit)
This is just plain sad! When the record industry starts suing people who aren't even alive, you know that something has gone terribly wrong here. I mean seriously, this is one of the worst things they've done yet, save for suing little kids.
Hey, if dead people can vote*, then dead people can get sued. :D
* There was some voter fraud a long time ago where some ballots were found to have been cast by dead people. I wish I could remember the details.
--The Jovial States of Cogitation
"Laugh about it for a moment."
NationStates Self-Proclaimed Court Jester
...
Okay, seriously, the part that I find disturbing about this is that a lawsuit was filed based on faulty evidence gathered by the RIAA. Granted, when there are lots of lawsuits flying around, at least a few of them are going to be mistakes. My question is: How many RIAA lawsuits against live people are mistakes?
"Think about it for a moment."
--The Democratic States of Cogitation
Teranius
05-02-2005, 20:45
Downloading music isn't the crime here---putting 1 good song and 14 filler songs on a CD and then selling it for 20 bucks is the crime.
Sdaeriji
05-02-2005, 20:46
Hey, if dead people can vote*, then dead people can get sued. :D
* There was some voter fraud a long time ago where some ballots were found to have been cast by dead people. I wish I could remember the details.
--The Jovial States of Cogitation
"Laugh about it for a moment."
NationStates Self-Proclaimed Court Jester
Chicago, Mayor Daley, supposedly got dead people to vote for Kennedy, amongst others, as I understand it.
Bodies Without Organs
05-02-2005, 21:36
Hey, if dead people can vote*, then dead people can get sued. :D
* There was some voter fraud a long time ago where some ballots were found to have been cast by dead people. I wish I could remember the details.
Chicago, Mayor Daley, supposedly got dead people to vote for Kennedy, amongst others, as I understand it.
Northern Ireland maintains a long and vivid tradition of dead people voting: it is one of the few regions of the world that embraces the same saying as Chicago under Major Daley - Vote Early, Vote Often.
Downloading music isn't the crime here---putting 1 good song and 14 filler songs on a CD and then selling it for 20 bucks is the crime.
Agreed.
My band has a CD: 9 songs, all of them good (I think) and we sell it for $5. We actually turned down an HMV here, who wanted to sell it, because they refused to sell it for under $10 like we wanted (they were going for $14.99). Not only is the record companies the problem, distributers are too. They also jack up prices.
The bottom line: everyone in the buisness is corrupt. Do it yourself or download.
Riptide Monzarc
05-02-2005, 21:49
One of my favorite musical artists, Tech N9ne, made his album downloadable FOR FREE on his website. You know what happened after that?
His record sales shattered ALL Kansas City, MO sales in one week. He even paid for commercials saying Fuck The Industry, Come Download My CD.
Wow... the music industry is that desperate. :eek:
Free Soviets
05-02-2005, 22:13
this is one of the worst things they've done yet, save for suing little kids.
man, briana lahara's mom should never have settled out of court. it was the perfect opportunity to make the riaa look like the bunch of dicks they are. and if record companies did actually win, there would have been benefit concerts and all sorts of shit, and she probably wouldn't have wound up paying anything anyways.
Santa Barbara
05-02-2005, 22:57
I don't care if she IS dead - thats no excuse to steal music.
Andaluciae
05-02-2005, 23:07
* There was some voter fraud a long time ago where some ballots were found to have been cast by dead people. I wish I could remember the details.
--The Jovial States of Cogitation
"Laugh about it for a moment."
NationStates Self-Proclaimed Court Jester
One of the elections was the 1960 presidential election. It happened in Chicago, where Mayor Daley got some 2000 of the deceased to vote.
Lord Ganja
05-02-2005, 23:07
Downloading music isn't the crime here---putting 1 good song and 14 filler songs on a CD and then selling it for 20 bucks is the crime.
Word!
Andaluciae
05-02-2005, 23:12
No thread on the retardosity of the RIAA can go without this:
http://kadreg.free.fr/perso/moules/warez-communism.jpg
Downloading music isn't the crime here---putting 1 good song and 14 filler songs on a CD and then selling it for 20 bucks is the crime.
I applaud you on your insight. Peace