Student Ordered to Pay $675,000 for Illegal Downloads

good luck collecting.

 

And they wonder why their sales are in the toilet. Except that they aren't. They make more every year and still sue everyone they can for every dime they can get. The funny part is that the artists they are supposedly doing this for are suing the RIAA for "forgetting" to give them any of the money. Doh.

Me? I'll never buy another cd as long as I live. Not from them.

 

I usually go to the artist's web site or myspace page. They almost always have their stuff available to download there, most of the time they charge for it, sometimes not. I'd rather get it there that way the artist gets 100% of the profit and not these leaches.

 

If it's for sale through a legal channel, the artist does not get 100%. They no longer own the works to sell them. They've probably never even visited the myspace page. Steven Tyler is not taking HTML classes on the side and incorporating a shopping cart.

 

Some of them are doing exactly that. Radiohead released an album for free online a while back. They asked for a donation if people liked it, free either way. They made well over a million dollars in a few days. The RIAA is not needed.

As for legal, the law states that they cannot pay the artists less than 2% on sales. They tell the artist they either sign the contract for 1.75% (or less) or they don't get recorded. Then the artists are lucky if they get paid at all.

The RIAA are a pack of rabid criminals, they've even sued themselves. They bought all the laws into existence.

 

ROFL, that made my day. It is true also.

 

Hmm...swedish site, eh?

 

Me thinks so