How much money has the Pirate Bay stolen from the RIAA?

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02 Nov 2010, 6:27 am

Piracy/file sharing isn't going away. This is one battle that the industry will never win. The only alternative is for artists to derive their revenue from other means such as special edition CDs, merchandise, live concerts, whoring out to adverts etc.

The only repercussion I can see from this is less new albums, and more tours instead. Oh, and thinner wallets for the big businesses.

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02 Nov 2010, 7:00 pm

bloodshot wrote:

Oh, and thinner wallets for the big businesses.

Pity for them.

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14 Dec 2010, 6:06 pm

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RIAA used to be a useful company,
sugguesting recording levels
for certain things, now they are
just overgreed, useless stupid fools.

I don't buy cds from record labels who
sign with riaa

For example the RIAA equalization curve on LP and 45RPM records.

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15 Dec 2010, 6:20 am

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When you illegally copy bread and fish, you're killing the food industry!

Yes, but you're curing a lot of hunger. I wonder which is most important.

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15 Dec 2010, 10:32 am

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When you illegally copy bread and fish, you're killing the food industry!

Yes, but you're curing a lot of hunger. I wonder which is most important.

That is one of the most important ideas behind the creative commons/open source movement. That all people, world wide, have access to designs and resources by which they may improve their lives. I'm just getting started in the reprap/makerbot community, and I will be making a mantis 9.1 or some such.

http://makeyourbot.wikidot.com/mantis9-1

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16 Dec 2010, 12:17 am

greengeek wrote:

LittleTigger wrote:

RIAA used to be a useful company,
sugguesting recording levels
for certain things, now they are
just overgreed, useless stupid fools.

I don't buy cds from record labels who
sign with riaa

For example the RIAA equalization curve on LP and 45RPM records.

Except it's the RIAA artists that have led the charge into the loudness war, killing the dynamics of popular music, and therefore making it the case that nobody is exposed to dynamically excellent music anymore, and therefore don't enjoy it as much, resulting in people never getting that into music...

The RIAA equalization curve was pretty cool.
In 1950.

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16 Dec 2010, 12:20 am

Cbeiser wrote:

greengeek wrote:

LittleTigger wrote:

RIAA used to be a useful company,
sugguesting recording levels
for certain things, now they are
just overgreed, useless stupid fools.

I don't buy cds from record labels who
sign with riaa

For example the RIAA equalization curve on LP and 45RPM records.

And without it you would need a multi pre-amp to play records from different labels. They are in a loudness war because there is no limit on how loud you can make a digital file, but eventually it clips and distorts.

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17 Dec 2010, 10:22 pm

For that, use ReplayGain. Problem solved.

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29 Dec 2010, 2:38 pm

In response to the OP's title question: Not enough.

I'm a musician and I in no way support RIAA's fascist overreach into music culture on the internet as well as its extraordinary clout in getting government agencies to do their bidding. Corporatism like this is destroying the organic transmission of culture for profit, and it's using our allegedly democratic government to do their dirty work. The RIAA can rot in hell.

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29 Dec 2010, 3:33 pm

I will continue to download music. I will not be intimidated by the RIAA one bit. As far as they are concerned they can take it and shove it where the sun don't shine!!

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29 Dec 2010, 3:34 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

bloodshot wrote:

Oh, and thinner wallets for the big businesses.

Pity for them.

Yeah... boo hoo

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29 Dec 2010, 3:36 pm

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SO if I liked your album and I was broke, it's cool if I download it for free?

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29 Dec 2010, 4:36 pm

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Remember the miracle of multiplication, where Jesus took some bread and fish then made enough copies so that everyone could eat? :wink:

Speaking as someone who hopes to make a living as some manner of artist someday, my plan would be to have a website were I give most or all of my stuff away for free and sell ad space. Something being free means more people will try it. more people trying means more traffic. more traffic means higher ad rent.

and that is why capitalism and commercialism own.

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29 Dec 2010, 10:32 pm

ScottF wrote:

Mercurial wrote:

SO if I liked your album and I was broke, it's cool if I download it for free?

So you havent heard? The RIAA won their lawsuits, collected the money, and havent passed it on to the artists whos rights were violated. Shades of piracy!

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-keeps-sett ... ey-080228/

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30 Dec 2010, 12:08 am

What is some of the material originated from Records or Analog tapes, as it was not digital to begin with, and if it was out of print they would not lose any money from the piracy because they no longer make it and used or New Old Stock is the only way you can get a physical copy.

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30 Dec 2010, 9:51 am

Fuzzy wrote:

ScottF wrote:

Mercurial wrote:

SO if I liked your album and I was broke, it's cool if I download it for free?

Wow, how ironic is that?

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