how much do you 'owe' the RIAA?

[Subsonix]

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kthnkbai

[Cretaceous Bob]

Originally Posted by cbooty

Bob, let me take a shot in the dark here, but do you play in a shitty band that doesn't make any money?

Let me take a shot in the dark here and guess that you don't have much of an attention span, and you frequently annoy people with stupid questions that have already been covered.

[Fourbid]

I'm fairly sure I don't owe them anything until I'm caught and convicted.

[m0o0op]

To original question: No. I don't steal music.

(I only buy music because I make music, and if I don't pay for mine, I don't know why people would pay for the music I make.)

[BrownEyedBtch]

Originally Posted by Fourbid

I'm fairly sure I don't owe them anything until I'm caught and convicted.

You actually believe that? It's not a crime if you don't get caught? What an idiot.

[Fourbid]

Originally Posted by BrownEyedBtch

You actually believe that? It's not a crime if you don't get caught? What an idiot.

You're putting words into my mouth, I didn't say it wasn't a crime. I said I didn't owe them anything. If I were to steal something from a store, that is in fact a crime. Though I wouldn't believe I owe them anything.

[strafer_praha]

I think I owe the RIAA and the MPAA my first and second born.

[dzagama]

Originally Posted by yoav

i'm in canada out of the riaa's jurisdiction, and it's legal here. also they tend to only sue people who don't know what they did was illegal usually someone's grandmother who's grandkid downloaded a couple songs while they were over. i also don't have a babillion dollars, i have about 4 so i don't look like prey to them anyway...

finally posting in a forum doesn't incriminate me, their evidence comes from the riaa sharing music themselves and grabbing the ips of people downloading from them, and then raiding that person's house. they have to find the music files that were downloaded and have the ip and filesharing logs to have a case. which if they did somehow sue me, i believe is entrapment.

yoav, I need ur help. How much is a babillion? And more importantly, wut's a babillion minus 2?

This is very urgent.

TIA!

[dzagama]

Originally Posted by yoav

im not anti artist though, im anti riaa, i support artists, and i'm not a thief in my country. Furthermore your logic that thieves who steal music for their own listening pleasure don't like music is ridiculously flawed.

and yoav, u know i love ye, but, a kid fucker's a kid fucker. regardless of which country the fuckee's be fucked.

[dzagama]

Originally Posted by KatGuhJam

Little bit of a new question here....

Suppose someone BUYS an edited CD. Is it okay for them to illegally download, through whatever means, unedited versions of the songs with censors?

Or, let's say, I RedBox a DVD and return it before watching it. Can I morally download copy to view once?

I tink we answered these sort of questions in another tred. Something to do with amortized costs and singletons.

penis?