RIAA sues 12 year old girl
 

fucking ridiculous

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96797,00.html

"I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"

:( not cool

mommy is gonna sue back.

that little girl is already taling about her stomach turning, watch. Stress suit.

the RIAA fucked up.

that little girl will be the torch holder.

Good, I hope they nail her ass. That'll teach her not to steal.

haha, so true

riaa is being hated

yeah, this definitely won't help their cause

mean riaa people! hehe

they couldn't make a dumber move

I guess we have to start buying CD's again :(

It's not like the fuckers don't make enough money anyway... :mad:

Good thing I wore my Napster shirt today

Thats fucking hilarious.

Is this the same board that posts thread that are titled:

Topic: Content Thief - http://www.teeniegate.de/

I can't believe you guys get so hyped up about content theft. Porn should be free to everybody, right? You guys make too much money anyway, right? Some content guys WANT to give away their stuff to get recognition, right?


It's all perspective, and from the perspective of the public/surfers, you are all a bunch of fat cat porn dealers that don't pay shit to the talent....the girls..... and are making too much money.

Meanwhile you all freak if somebody steals YOUR stuff

Such hypocrosy!!!
:1orglaugh

the funny thing is that this kid was probably downloading some crappy pop music thats not even worth paying for

yeah..i thnk it would have been wise to pick on someone other the a 12 yr old girl...lol

can you even go after a minor?

That in itself seems odd..serving a minor papers?

i hope she ends up with a nice fat check for her tuition and schooling

and after that she could wear a t-shirt that says "my schooling was paid for by the idiots at the RIAA"... hehe

I support RIAA. If you download music, you know you are taking a risk. We all take risks, sometimes you have to pay the piper.

I love it.

When it's about the RIAA suing kids for stealing thousands of dollars worth of music, everyone wants the kid to sue back.

When it's about kids seeing porn on the internet, those stupid parents should be monitoring their kids and being responsible for their kids.

I thought they were only going to go after big time file sharers...hmmm.

Sounds staged to me... RIAA could have paid these people as actors, to make examples of them, in an attempt to keep other kids from downloading MP3s and instilling the fear of God in them.

If I'm not mistaken, don't they track the downloads through a user's ISP? Just because the screen name downloading the music, happened to be "owned" by a 12 year old kid, shouldn't they be suing the person whose name the ISP is in? Which has to be an adult. Unless of course, they contacted the ISP subscriber and the adult pointed the finger at the 12 year old user. Just odd.

All those lawsuits sound like scare tactics to me, if they aren't... they go way too far.

They say music sales suffer from people downloading MP3s... Maybe they should get some more talent instead of suing kids for their milk money. If they aren't selling as many records, it's because the music is pure shit. Eminem sold like what? Over 11 million albums last year alone? People will still buy the whole album, if the music is good. The kids who download excessive MP3s everyday or whatever, wouldn't be buying the CDs anyway. I download MP3s because I don't have a 100 disc CD Rom, it's easier to listen to them that way when I am at my computers. I still buy the CDs. :321GFY

They can never take easynews away : )

Remind me again why stealing music is okay? I keep forgetting...

It's cheaper? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

You know, it's funny, but in the last 3 years, over 70% of the sole proprietor CD shops around college campuses have gone under because stealing music on the net has gotten so common. I guess all those "mom and pop" record stores were making "too much money" anyway, and retired to the Bahamas.:glugglug

Not defending file swapping etc, but come one man...

he without an mp3 on his hard drive cast the first stone.

wow

Oh yeah, it has NOTHING to do with Best Buy, The Wherehouse, and every other chain store carrying the CD's for much cheaper.

I know in Fort Worth, there are a number of good vintage, vinyl, and USED CD shops that are owned by sole propreitors that do well and a few are located near TCU, UT Arlington etc.

"Brianna and the others sued yesterday under federal copyright law could face penalties of up to $150,000 per song,"

$150,000 per song!!? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

:glugglug

that's so true. why would you go to a smaller store and pay $18.00 for a cd when you can go a few blocks down the street to best buy and get the same cd for $10.

heh... oh for the people i hope RIAA nails :)

LOL that's fucken funny :1orglaugh

songs are worth alot these days.... :disgust

teh? leetness?

:1orglaugh

I heard that downloading music from decentralized servers has been ruled legal, such as via WinMX

It's not "ok" but it's also encouraged by all the MP3 player manufacturers. It's like Sony selling bongs, but you can't legally fill it with weed.

You can purchase MP3s, but at $1 each... it's not very appealing. Maybe they should come up with unlimited downloads for $29.95 a month or something along those lines. Not everyone has time or interest in downloading hundreds of files a day (especially people on dial up), so they would actually make much more from idle subscribers. Like when AOL went unlimited... some people haven't disconnected since 1997... others sign on once a week to check their email.

Unfortunately, the money being lost doesn't go entirely to the artists. And the part that does? Well fuck them... Not all of us make $20 million to stock a home music library with.

Shit, They are just trying to make a point.

Fuckers! I will swap files on IRC if they try sue me.

I will ask,
So you HACKED? into my account traced my ip? Logged my packets of my computer/network?

Ok, I will pay you 3k now I will counter sue for invasion of privacy
Breaking an entering oh yeah and now that?s a called a terrorist act "HACKING" That?s FEDERAL

Cyber Crimes. Bring it. There are many loop-holes to expose. :ak47:

Don't get me worng..i beleive in policing your creative work

and people should not bea ble to just steal....but it seems like it is a very bad case of going after the wrong person

there is no way in hell they will win a case against a 12 year old girl


yes you are 12..you now owe us your whole life...lol

No kidding. Every Sunday when reading the advertisements there's always a bunch of cd's including new ones at Best Buy for anywhere from $9.99 to $14.99 on sale.

But I've never been one for buying music period. Even before the days of file sharing.

In fact after file sharing began I started to buy more music.
I'd find a single that would remind me of an album I used to listen to all the time and go out and buy it.

The simple fact is if I could pay a small price for the songs I liked and that's all I had tp pay for I'd do it.

There used to be a service at the music stores back in the late 80's early 90's where you could listen to samples of singles, fill out a form and they'd make you a compilation tape for about $1.00 per song.

I used to make tapes all the time. If they did that now, I'd do the same thing.

People need to quit trying to figure out how to stop these people, and figure out a solution to INCLUDE these people in their services.

I don't know why they even allow music programs on the internet if every time a new one comes out people get fucking sued! It's assanine if you ask me!

:thumbsup

uh, let's say you have a paysite with an exlusive model. Then people starts posting your pics everywhere for free and use the same argument;
"People will still buy memberhip to the whole site, if the site is good. The kids who download excessive pics/vids everyday or whatever, wouldn't be buying memberships anyway. I download pics/vids because I don't have a 100 disc CD Rom, it's easier to view to them that way when I am at my computers. "
When you notice a drop in your signups I'm sure you'd change your argument...

just my 2 downloads errr cents
Kamilla

There's a website you can go to to find out if your on the subpoena list http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/riaasubpoenas/

"When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna "

foxnews doesn't use spellcheck, ridic....

Well, no one group can 'allow' what is and isn't allowed online, and people don't get sued everytime a new proggy is released...it was pretty much just napster and now the RIAA's vendeta against us common folk.

I have tons of mp3s on my drives.

ALL the bands i listen to flood kazaa and other free services with their music.

And I cant name a band I listen to that doesnt have mp3s available on their site.

Not all mp3 traders use Kazaa. I dont, nor any p2p file sharing network filled with kids and script kid wannabes.

The mp3 file is nothing more than a file type, the compression method itself isnt illegal.

They just dont want you ripping a cd and trading it.

:thumbsup

If my kid gets me sued I'll kill her:BangBang:

you'll kill your own kid??

i'd probably pay a flat monthly service fee to download music, that would rock. especially if the music files were guaranteed to be of a certain quality.

but personally, i like my cds. and i like the fact i can rip them into a much better and higher quality than kazaa will ever deliver them as.

as much as people like to complain about it, most of the time mp3's really aren't up to the quality of a cd.

and in the future, if the recording industry goes to dvds (which i'm betting is an inevitability), the sound quality will improve that much more, and even move towards 4-channel music.

mp3's can't do that yet :)

I guess you've never heard of a TGP then huh? All those free images TGPs allow, have the same impact on membership sales. If TGPs didn't exist, then everyone would make a lot more money in this industry.

Shes a music thief after they win the law suit they should put her on criminal charges and throw her in jail for a year.

I bet she wont be swapping music anymore after that.:1orglaugh