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Does She Look Like a Music Pirate?
- breily 19y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174515 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174515
- epi0Bauqu 19y agoSorry, didn't mean to dup. I use the bookmarklet and just expect a dup to be caught.
- agentbleu 19y agoThis is a very interesting case, but more so, shows the disgraceful practices of the RIAA.
- wmf 19y agoFor some reason I just imagined "Does Marsellus Wallace look like a pirate?!"
- Monkeyget 19y agoWhat?
- wmf 19y agoWhat ain't no web site I ever heard of! They speak Lisp in What?! (I see some moderators have no sense of humor, even on the weekend.)
- blueberryipod 19y agoHaha! I love it
- cstejerean 19y agoI wonder how much of the music being stolen on the internet really translates into lost revenue. My gut feeling is college and highschool students are responsible for most music downloads and they don't typically have the money to buy all the music they want. But these people typically grow up and get jobs and start purchasing music on iTunes (or Amazon) because their time becomes more valuable.
- agentbleu 19y agoWeb2.4 is all about semantics according to the RIAA who interprets the use of the term 'pirates' with a twist. This is straight from their glossary of terms: http://www.riaa.law/glossary.html http://www.riaa.law/glossary.html RIAA SEMANTIC TERMS AND NEW MEANNESS: Definition of pirate: Someone who has an internet connection but who cannot afford a lawyer...
- aardvarkious 19y agoYour right about college students, but not high school students. They have the largest disposable income of any age group. Many of them have jobs, many of them get given money by grandma/mom/pop/etc..., but very few of them need to spend money on necessities- almost all of their income goes to consumer goods. This is why so much advertising is targeted at teenagers. This is also why the internet is going to be death to the parts of the recording industry that cannot (or will not) adapt- the age group that is their biggest customer is also the most internet savvy.
- wave 19y agoWhat is going on with Business Week? I have to click five times to read the whole article and more than half of the page is crammed with ads and links.
- mixmax 19y agoIntimidating and suing your potential customers just seems like a really dumb business strategy to me.
- run4yourlives 19y agoRIAA has been digging its own grave for years now. The faster the music industry implodes, the better it will be for consumers and more importantly, artists.