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Civil case are causing bad PR

Oddly enough the sueing of people making music available has resulted in bad PR for the recording industry.

The real problem is that making music available is not illegal. Downloading music you have no right to is the illegal part. Since it's near impossible to prove that a person had no right to download music no criminal charges can be brought against them. This why the RIAA uses civil court to sue the people making the music available. While it's not illegal it sure could be argued that the actions of the uploaders encourages copyright infringement. Hence the court cases are threatened but have yet to make it to court as everyone settles.

This really has little to do with piracy. It has to do with controlling the content. Piracy doesn't do much damage, you don't see Universal going under because of it. But they will fabricate numbers in the billions for losses to argue for laws that maintain the control over content.

What DMCA, the analog hole law and such are just used to make sure anyone interested in creating pays thier dues to the big corporation. Can't have proffesional looking content bypassing the big content corporations. As tech gets cheaper and smaller this is happening. Music is experiencing it now as a recording studio can be set up for under $50,000. Digital cams are more popular and software editing and doing special effects is getting easier to use. The major studios, TV guys, are worried. If you're watching some amatuercomdey show off the net then you aren't watching network TV stations. Ad dollars drop. Scary prospect. Also the TV Studios know you don't need quality to attract viewers, look at all the reality TV out there. Take a look at that show "JACKA$$" and tell me that's a quality show with a straight face.

The future of creators making money off thier creations is comming to an end if these corporate sleazes have thier way. The only way creative people will be able to create will to do works for hire for large corporations.

Posted by: voska   Posted on: 11/17/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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