RIAA gone CRAZY

[dragonsgames]

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/12/08/0020238.shtml?tid=141&tid=17
What will come next? :eek: :mad:

[Tam Hanna]

There is a saying in Austria:

the glass goes to the water source as long until it breaks(cant translate that better, sorry ppl)

The RIAA will ***** around with music buyers until they all are so pissed that they diownload thre stuff illegally and pay the artists a few percents of the regular sales price per donation directly(that makes for more $$$ than what they get by the labels AFAIK).

And then, they will have their problems...

[dragonsgames]

RIAA has messed with Sirius and XM, too, seriously crippling the S50...

[Tam Hanna]

As said above...

People have patience..but not into infinicy

[pgenie]

http://www.betanews.com/article/Woman_Loses_Appeal_Against_RIAA/1134402326

[dragonsgames]

What is wrong with that?

[PatrickS]

What is wrong with that?I agree. What's wrong with that?

People who protest DRM measures do so because it interferes with legitimate usage of purchased content. I have no sympathy for this woman who was plain stealing.

[Rampax]

RIAA gone CRAZY

Just figured that out? :rolleyes:

[Cyker]

As said above...

People have patience..but not into infinicy

You'd be surprised how far They can stretch these things.
It's like that saying about how you can boil a [frog] to death if you do it slowly because it won't notice.

Before computer stuff and the internet became mainstream, companies would have gone bankrupt if they tried some of the crap almost every company pulls these days.

I don't doubt for a second we will see a time where every time you listen to music or watch a video or even play a game, your system will have to connect back to some central server to authorise that.

And people won't complain. They'll do it.
How many of you use Windows XP?
"But oh, you only have to authenticate it once..."
Yeah, you watch. When always-on internet connections are a majority thing, the time when you'll have to authenticate everytime you boot the system (BIOS-based TPM, baby!), will not be far away.

Oh people will complain for sure, but they won't do anything about it.
It'll be the only way for them to get what they want - They're too weak to boycott such things, so they'll trade another right and liberty just for the shiny.

[daver]

see, if this Gonzalez lady lived in Canada, this wouldn't be a problem. but the RIAA would still be chewing on her @ss anyways. LOL
don't you just love how the RIAA goes after one woman, with only a thousand-ish songs, while they completely ignore the people who download thousands of songs and let them go by?


How many of you use Windows XP?
"But oh, you only have to authenticate it once..."
Yeah, you watch. When always-on internet connections are a majority thing, the time when you'll have to authenticate everytime you boot the system (BIOS-based TPM, baby!), will not be far away.
once, just once? Microsoft checks up on your "authentication" maybe ONCE every 15 minutes.

i've caught the darn "auto update" trying to check for "updates" on more than one occasion. keep in mind that i have my auto updates to NEVER check for Windows updates, ever. not while i'm alive at least. oh yeah, guess what. just last week, my Windows XP Pro suddenly decided to update itself from SP1 to SP2 overnight. i didn't do it. Windows did. and i highly doubt that a hacker would come into my system, update my Windows, and leave every single file on my computer alone. not even a "Haha, I hacked your system. (insert hacker's alias here) was here."
when I bought XP Pro from the MS employee store down in Redmond (through my bro), it came with SP1, which wasn't a problem. however, SP2 prevents me from using my VPN service at any time of day. and now i can't roll back and i can't connect to the school network or to my work.

[dragonsgames]

That is yet another reason to get a Mac. Too bad they are so darn expensive... :(

[daver]

well, for most people, Windows is more than enough. but for power users and geeks like me, it's a pain in the backside. so that's why i also have a distro of Linux running: it's my backup system

but i think the RIAA/MPAA is more of a pain in the butt than Windows.

[dragonsgames]

I don't know , they are both annoying... ;)