General Chat / KazaA Crackdown

Wonder how many files DJ Spooky's got...

Probably enough to land him squarely in jail. In fact, this might just be one big fucking scheme by the RIAA to arrest DJ Spooky.

They really need to think of new and imaginative ways to rid the world of great music, or else the crap the try to shove out there will just flounder and fail.

Wait...

It is floundering and failing! Oh, my.

Why is it illegal though? If they sell it, then that is piracy. If you let a freind borrow a CD, thats letting a freind borrow a CD.

I think that Kazaa leans more towards the CD-swapping than piracy. In fact, Kazaa fucking is CD-swapping, not piracy. It is just a brand new age of CD-swapping.

Silly little record labels...

I agree...

It's like letting someone borrow your CD....can you stop them from burning it? Not unless you're going to watch every second that they have it, and hold a gun to their head.

Besides, it's a lot of work to actually burn a complete CD from mp3s....you have to download 10-15 songs, listen to them all to make sure that they aren't all glitchy, put them in the proper order, and then in the end, what do you have? A slightly lesser quality version of what you could buy in the store, and without the album art and often worthless liner notes/pictures, if it the store one has any at all in the first place.

Oh, and the record companies still make plenty off of the record/concert sales, as everything is overpriced.

$12-20 for a CD, $20+ for a t-shirt, $40 for lawn "seats" at a concert....and that's just an opening act and the headliner.

Sad...

Kai

The RIAA will be the death of itself shortly. It's already been busted for price-gouging before, worse can easily happen to it. Our Supreme Court is capable, you know.

Why is it illegal though? If they sell it, then that is piracy. If you let a freind borrow a CD, thats letting a freind borrow a CD.

I think that Kazaa leans more towards the CD-swapping than piracy. In fact, Kazaa fucking is CD-swapping, not piracy. It is just a brand new age of CD-swapping.

Silly little record labels...

exactly, but it doesn't have to make sense, just make money

I just heard about this from a couple people I know, and looked it up on Google, Dogpile and Yahoo