RIAA strikes again

[NAD]

I get bugged when I talk to old rock n' rollers who say "there's no good music anymore" because I always tell them "yes there is, you just have to find it" and they stare at me blankly, only to resume listening to Nickelback with a half-hearted grin. Eejits.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

anyone who says "music these days sucks" isn't looking hard enough for the good stuff to deserve it

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I saw a donkey piss for the first time the other day! I'm sure everyone has heard the term "piss like a horse" but hey man, them asses have a mighty stream as well!

I'd always heard the phrase as "piss like a race horse". I've always wondered why race horses specifically?

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

drink a ton of water. Run your brains out in the heat. Drink another gallon of water. You'd piss a lot too.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Don't you piss more when you're not busy sweating it out?

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

I dunno, but after every soccer game I played I pissed all over the place.

 

[NAD]

I don't piss much when I'm exercising, nor when I'm hungover, no matter the liquid intake. I like to think both activities are healthy.

I think the race horse bit effects the meter, it sorta sounds funny without it. I've always heard it that way too, just decided to leave it out because I was thinking "why is it always a race horse?" as well.

 

[Claws of Perdition]

Best anaimal expression ever..

Im so hungry, i could eat the crutch out of a low flying duck.

 

[Reign in Acai]

The first RIAA file-sharing case to go to trial just wrapped, and sadly, the outcome isn't a positive one. Regardless of the incredibly asinine and consumer-hostile comments made by Sony BMG's head of litigation the other day, the jury found Jammie Thomas, a single mother from Minnesota, liable for willful copyright infringement and awarded the RIAA plaintiffs $222,000 -- that's $9,250 for each of the 24 songs she was alleged to have made available on Kazaa, for those of you keeping track at home, and probably something like, oh, say, $222,000 more than she should have had to pay, since the RIAA plaintiffs weren't required to show that Thomas had a file-sharing program installed on her machine or that she was even the person using the Kazaa account in question. Of course, this is just one case and there's always the possibility of appeal, but anything that emboldens the RIAA's litigation team is never good for the general public.


Credit - Mastercard

 

[Mormagil]

the RIAA plaintiffs weren't required to show that Thomas had a file-sharing program installed on her machine or that she was even the person using the Kazaa account in question.

WTF?!?! Aren't those kind of important things for them to prove? I guess that's what happens when the powers that be know nothing about computers (cf. the "Series of Tubes" business)

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

Like considering RAM a form of storage and demanding it be submitted....

So when they comply and take the ram out... does that mean they can be charged with destroying evidence? Old judges shouldn't be used for these cases.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Judges shouldn't be used period. It's a waste of our governmental resources.

 

[lurch70]

fag fucks ...
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2008/01/02/lklv.hostin.music.chetry.cnn

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

thats fucking queer

 

[Nico]

It's also not true, just a delayed sub-story based on a misinformed article.

Not even the RIAA, in all their stupidity, would have the audacity to challenge fair use.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

Is that the whole "ripping mp3s" shit? While they aren't declaring it illegal,they are sayign that they are unauthorized copies, which is about 5 inches from the big red "we will sue you for it" line.