Comments on: Confessions Of A Convicted RIAA Victim Joel Tenenbaum

By: Shea

Shea — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:40:12 +0000

Please read my article on the RIAA!!!

Those guys need a different game plan than just suing everyone all the time. People will be over it in 6 months and illegal downloading rates will be back to normal.

http://guerrillaandchalk.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/why-the-riaa-needs-to-be-put-down/

By: Jack G.

Jack G. — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:11:24 +0000

$67,500 for 7 songs…what? On a cd you get 12 songs for 20$…. Justice my ass.

By: Why the RIAA needs to be put down. « Guerrilla&Chalk.

Why the RIAA needs to be put down. « Guerrilla&Chalk. — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:22:09 +0000

[...] It’s true that old habits die hard. But like it or not those days are GONE. It is completely ludicrous to even think that by some miracle everyone will stop obtaining music through illegal channels. And it is just as stupid to carry on suing illegal downloaders six figure sums. [...]

By: Cliff

Cliff — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:00:15 +0000

This whole episode just goes to show how desperate the whole “Entertainment” industry is becoming. The geriatrics that reside in the Fat Cat offices of these companies can only see physical media building up around them, then putting 2 + 2 together to get 5. Thinking that sales are declining because they can’t see the solution that’s staring them in the face……….file sharing!!!! I may well be correct in saying that most, if not all, of us on here are file sharers and that we would willingly pay if the correct business model and pricing was brought into play. I also find it very hard to swallow that non-filesharers think that eradicating piracy would lower prices. This could not be further from the truth. If piracy was eradicated then there would be nothing to entice us to buy rather than “steal” their products, so the “entertainment” companies could charge whatever they like and we would have to pay because we would not have any other choice. The internet is free speech and a place to share – whether this is information or data(in any of its forms). It seems that the “entertainment” industry wants to make us own their physical media, even though we never actually own it just the licence to use it. I don’t want that, I want choice. The choice to own physical or digital content as I see fit. They attempt to force us into this corner rather than looking at the internet as the tool it has become – a vast sharing network. Instead the try to control and take over to make sure no one can share anything without them knowing. The internet is free so they shouldn’t try to take over what they don’t understand. Then they try to scare tactics like those on Joel, hoping that he will stop and tell his friends, colleagues and family to stop as well. I hope he hasn’t because it would just confirm what they want you to do. Stop sharing so piracy stops and prices can rise. If the internet ever became policed by them I would probably give it up. How do you justify the type of damages they try and inflict on people? It’s because they don’t catch them all and an example needs to be made. However, not like this. A song is $0.99 so the damage should be no more than 5 times that. That means that a typical CD would cost $60 rather than the $10-$12 it normally does.

We are the consumers and as such need to show them that without us there would be nothing.

Behind you all the way Joel.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:38:17 +0000

The Internet is not dissimilar to how radio was in the 1930′s etc, or the grammophone in the early 1900′s – i.e a new technological advancement that allowed us a new way to enjoy music – no real difference with the web.
What is needed is a new form of mechanical and/or performance income licensing (sadly it is difficult for USA to lead the way here as it strangely refuses (unlike 99.99% of the civilised world) to pay master rights performance income for terrestrial radio/tv etc.). Sort out better licensing models rather criminalise or bankrupt our children.

But the majors refuse to countenance such a model as they fear their customers and rightly are concerned that if they cannot control the exclusive means of distribution then we, as consumers, probably won’t want to consume their nonsense meaningless pop rubbish.

By: kexer

kexer — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:17:08 +0000

I’m sad to see that this J.T. guy was sentenced of so harsh a fine.

However, what a lot of you think as modesty is in fact the highest form arrogance.
This guy thinks himself to be so much better than the common filesharer…

In this behaviour lies his fall.

By: liquidmonkey

liquidmonkey — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:09:37 +0000

one cd sale equals 5% (if that) to the artist.
the rest goes to the RIAA.

total BS.

one cd sale SHOULD EQUAL 80% to the artist.
make that change and you can bring on the ‘poor artist’ argument and i’ll start buying cd’s again.

By: neijek

neijek — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:17:33 +0000

The law should be really simple..

If you download to make a profit you should be punished, if not you should not be. End of story.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:13:57 +0000

“I also believe and have always believed that artists I derive enjoyment from deserve to be paid for their work.”

I still have to read a true statement (not a fake propaganda troll statements! We have seen some!) that was arguing the opposite.

The only people who believe that the artists should not be pay are actually the corporate music executives parasites who considered artists as employee to be abused just like any other employee.

Did you heard about the Marley case with Vivendi Universal?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:05:07 +0000

“Screw you, Joel Tenenbaum. You’re a self-important thief trying to get out of taking responsibility.”

This is a typical RIAA paid trolls statements.

Once the corporations of parasites realized how much the public hated them for the lawsuits, once they became award of the virulence of the ANTI music industry posting in the blogs and chat room they decided to wasts more money by paying an army of trolls posting stuff on their twisted sides.

He did not work since their army got totally overrun by the shear number of hostile former customers vowing to boycott this industry of parasites. Not only that but the all story helped uncover all the dishonest, illegal and even criminal practices in use by this industry of parasites and gangsters.

It also exposed how much they cared for their customers: not at all! and how well they considered them as a pack of sheep to who we could sell any crappy prefabricated acts.

Sorry not any more!