Illegal downloaders of music are no worse than the RIAA

[3db]

How a group of people can scream "your cheating the artists" and turn around with teh other cheek and actually cheat the artist is beyond me.

http://consumerist.com/2008/03/riaa-pockets-filesharing-settlement-money-doesnt-pay-artists-whose-copyrights-were-infringed.html

 

[jamie2112]

I am totally NOT suprised as the riaa has been screwing us and the artists for ever.....I hope they get the Hell sued out of them......

 

[mtrycrafts]

How a group of people can scream "your cheating the artists" and turn around with teh other cheek and actually cheat the artist is beyond me.

http://consumerist.com/2008/03/riaa-pockets-filesharing-settlement-money-doesnt-pay-artists-whose-copyrights-were-infringed.html

The RIAA will claim that there is no $$$$ left after the legal fees

 

[alcy]

RIAA Pockets Filesharing Settlement Money, Doesn't Pay Artists Whose Copyrights Were Infringed
By Alex Chasick on March 17, 2008 4:21 PM


Is it just in my browser or is that news quite old !

 

[Jack Hammer]

It looks to be an article from 2 years back. I didn't find any updates or what came of it. None of that changes the fact that it's still a BS move on the part of the RIAA.

 

[its phillip]

Old article. Anyway, I probably pirate more music than a bunch of my friends but I probably buy more music/movies/games than all my friends put together. Not an excuse or whatever, I'm just saying.

 

[3db]

RIAA Pockets Filesharing Settlement Money, Doesn't Pay Artists Whose Copyrights Were Infringed
By Alex Chasick on March 17, 2008 4:21 PM


Is it just in my browser or is that news quite old !

Its an old article and I only noticed after the fact but the action of the RIAA to further prosecute the little people without returning the procedes to the artists is still going on. I hope the artists move towards indie labels and the RIAA rots in hell. The RIAA are nothing but crooked vultures.

 

[mtrycrafts]

.. The RIAA are nothing but crooked vultures.

Are you just discovering this?

 

[its phillip]

In response to your original post -

Pirates might be "cheating" the musicians. The RIAA definitely is worse because they sue people for money that they are supposedly stealing from the pockets of artists, but rather than giving the settlement money or fees obtained they are keeping it rather than giving it to said artists. Anyway, not every download is a lost sale either.