BF2S Forums AllofMp3.com Sued for $1.65 Trillion!

i will still download music. if i like it, i will support the band, otherwise they can go f themselves

Artists first get fucked by the record labels, and then by scofflaw braindead members of the public who don't understand the concept of intellectual property, or don't see that what they do by downloading music like that is theft.

Wow. If that actually goes through, the people behind that site are screwed for life.

They can sue them, for example, in the international court in Vienna, under the international law.
You have international trade agreements, and if you brake them (such as dumping for example) you can get sued.
Companies from all around the world constantly sue each other. Don't think that they have to be in the same country.
What I really think is stupid is that people actually paid to download music illegally. Thats really REALLY stupid.

Why 150,000 per song? Half the songs out there today (as in the ones made recently) aren't even worth the 99 cents they cost on iTunes, let alone $150 grand. Fergie doesn't really deserve another cent for "London Bridge".

I think this is the time when we as the people of the world should stand united against the RIAA. I have read countless stories of these mother fucking capitalist cunts suing college students and making sure they never have even as much as a dime to afford the bus to college let alone their fees.

No one on this planet needs to make $20,000,000 a year, not a record label boss, not an "Artist" (who by the way can't sing live, doesn't record their own music, doesn't write their own music and doesn't create their own graphics), not a shop online or offline, not a CD stamping outfift and not a the stupid RIAA. If anyone should be making the big bucks it should be the guys who wake up on mornings like tomorrow and clean up the vomit on the streets left by people out over-enjoying themselves, or the people who delve into our sewers to fix problems caused by our waste, do they not perform a job much more deserving of major money?

If they sold the records at a price which is FAIR, and didn't offer a select few idiots a "Recording Contract", the quality of music would be exponentialy better and more people would actually buy it.

I download ALL of my music, but it's not music I could buy anywhere. I like DJs and Artists who actually put alot of work into their music and if it was available in the shops I would buy it.
Instead, the people crying about this are idiots like Westlife, Metalica, U2 and all the other gaylords of this world.

If people only opened their eyes they might start to see the real world.

c0ldfyr3 wrote:

I think this is the time when we as the people of the world should stand united against the RIAA. I have read countless stories of these mother fucking capitalist cunts suing college students and making sure they never have even as much as a dime to afford the bus to college let alone their fees.

No one on this planet needs to make $20,000,000 a year, not a record label boss, not an "Artist" (who by the way can't sing live, doesn't record their own music, doesn't write their own music and doesn't create their own graphics), not a shop online or offline, not a CD stamping outfift and not a the stupid RIAA. If anyone should be making the big bucks it should be the guys who wake up on mornings like tomorrow and clean up the vomit on the streets left by people out over-enjoying themselves, or the people who delve into our sewers to fix problems caused by our waste, do they not perform a job much more deserving of major money?

If they sold the records at a price which is FAIR, and didn't offer a select few idiots a "Recording Contract", the quality of music would be exponentialy better and more people would actually buy it.

I download ALL of my music, but it's not music I could buy anywhere. I like DJs and Artists who actually put alot of work into their music and if it was available in the shops I would buy it.
Instead, the people crying about this are idiots like Westlife, Metalica, U2 and all the other gaylords of this world.

If people only opened their eyes they might start to see the real world.

Amen +1

I download all my music too by the real musicians and artists, and I support them by buying their albums directly from them (website etc) Record labels need to stop shitting on everyone. Not to mention the dickheads like Robbie Williams who get paid stupid amounts more than doctors, police, etc...

Go soviets Go. USSR is back!

With so much free music available to stream at high quality, what's the point of DLing stuff illegally?  I stream the album in question a couplet times and then buy it of Napster or Wal-Mart for less than $10 per album.  Or you could just snag one of those programs that allows you to record streaming to your HD and you're set.

Homeschtar wrote:

Wow. If that actually goes through, the people behind that site are screwed for life.

Well, wrap your head around this: the total monetary cost to US citizens for the war in Iraq, to date, is estimated to be around 350 Billion.  In other words, this suit is for more than 4.5 times the cost of the war in Iraq, as it stands today, and would constitute more than the entire GDP for about 60 different countries around the world.

Yep, that makes sense.

c0ldfyr3 wrote:

I think this is the time when we as the people of the world should stand united against the RIAA. I have read countless stories of these mother fucking capitalist cunts suing college students and making sure they never have even as much as a dime to afford the bus to college let alone their fees.

No one on this planet needs to make $20,000,000 a year, not a record label boss, not an "Artist" (who by the way can't sing live, doesn't record their own music, doesn't write their own music and doesn't create their own graphics), not a shop online or offline, not a CD stamping outfift and not a the stupid RIAA. If anyone should be making the big bucks it should be the guys who wake up on mornings like tomorrow and clean up the vomit on the streets left by people out over-enjoying themselves, or the people who delve into our sewers to fix problems caused by our waste, do they not perform a job much more deserving of major money?

If they sold the records at a price which is FAIR, and didn't offer a select few idiots a "Recording Contract", the quality of music would be exponentialy better and more people would actually buy it.

I download ALL of my music, but it's not music I could buy anywhere. I like DJs and Artists who actually put alot of work into their music and if it was available in the shops I would buy it.
Instead, the people crying about this are idiots like Westlife, Metalica, U2 and all the other gaylords of this world.

If people only opened their eyes they might start to see the real world.

Quoth someone with a sig supporting a terror group that operated for more than 30 years.  Here's news: your day will never come.

....undue hardship.... end of story