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"Young girl fined for having 1,000 downloaded songs..."

Warning to all Kazaa users... a young girl from America's parents were fined $150,000 for each song downloaded by the girl. She issued a statement claiming she was "sorry" and "didn't wish to hurt the artists she loves so much".

In the end the case was settled out of court for a mere $2,000...

Mere? This is crap... I know some artists are dead against downloading music but I also know many bands don't give a s**t and offer downloadable songs from their very own website...

If more bands did that the better I'd say... beat the money obsessed system!

That's exactly my thoughts Memo, but even so, if one album is absolutely rubbish, I wouldn't buy it, hopefully that would tell the band they'd done something wrong and that would force them to return to form soon or go down the plughole. Although at the moment some people would just blame bad sales on file sharing, but that would be their problem.

Der Nazi wrote:
> Memorandum! wrote:
> Der Nazi wrote:
> I only buy
> albums I can't find on the net.
>
> Aren't you a loyal and supportive fan?
>
> Of Texas, Metallica, Nirvana, Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie and The
> Offspring. It's just the fact it'll cost about 34p to compile a CD at
> home. (Cost of blank CD and phone bill)

Great. But if every 'huge fan' like yourself downloaded every album instead of buying them, it wouldn't be very long until the material dried up.* Do you see?

I buy my favourite band's albums, because I want them to make more in future.



*I suppose that isn't entirely relevant for all of those bands

We need to destroy the RIAA once and for all. I'll get my coat. And plane tickets. I'm thinking we ought to get the weapons when we're over there, since that will not lead to any embarrasing or gory instances with customs.

About the RIAA, they apparently have a list of record labels that support them. Fat Wreck Chords, a label run by Fat Mike (singer/guitarist in NOFX if you know them) was on the list. They infact did not support the RIAA. It took 6 months of phone calls, letters, E-mails, etc. to get their label removed from the list.

Take from that what you will, but it seems the RIAA are desperate to seem like they have the moral high ground (ie. that all the labels artists support them) when its really a different story...

Snipe® wrote:
> Yep there's always one track or more that is crap in any album.

morning glory-oasis not crap on that.

Der Nazi wrote:
> Memorandum! wrote:
> Der Nazi wrote:
> I only buy
> albums I can't find on the net.
>
> Aren't you a loyal and supportive fan?
>
> Of Texas, Metallica, Nirvana, Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie and The
> Offspring. It's just the fact it'll cost about 34p to compile a CD at
> home. (Cost of blank CD and phone bill)

Would that be Ozzy era Sabbath, Dio era Sabbath or the Iommi Solo Project Sabbath? (It was really, don't disagree).

Memorandum! wrote:
> Der Nazi wrote:
> I only buy
> albums I can't find on the net.
>
> Aren't you a loyal and supportive fan?

Of Texas, Metallica, Nirvana, Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie and The Offspring. It's just the fact it'll cost about 34p to compile a CD at home. (Cost of blank CD and phone bill)

Am I the only one who thought that made sense up until the last bit?

God bless MP3's and File Sharing, may it be for MP3's, Porn or any other type of incest you like.

Yep there's always one track or more that is crap in any album.