Comments on: Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA

By: bennymex

bennymex — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:06:53 +0000

piracy is getting SO much press around the world that the goverments have only accelerated their growth..

before it was a friend tells a friend and he tells another friend and so on… (ie. 1>2>3>4>5>6>7>8>9>10)

now you could say its growing exponentially as a group of friends and family might discuss the issue more as a group.. (now ie. 1>2>4>8>16>32>64)

I bet if you could hack into senators computers or home computers you’ll find some form of file infringement… HOW would i love to send the hole government to jail :). considering even a powerpoint presentation with a copyrighted picture or background music(probablly copyrighted) would be jail worthy now days.

By: Zaskoda » On The Pirate Bay Sentenced

Zaskoda » On The Pirate Bay Sentenced — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:22:01 +0000

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By: The Stuff That Interests Me - My Top 5 Radiohead Songs

The Stuff That Interests Me - My Top 5 Radiohead Songs — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:45:38 +0000

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Helvetica vs. Times » Radiohead to Testify Against RIAA?: — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:42:41 +0000

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By: Drew Leahy | Leading The Music Revolution

Drew Leahy | Leading The Music Revolution — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:13:47 +0000

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By: HJ

HJ — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:12:27 +0000

“Radiohead, the band that made millions of dollars by giving away their music for free”

Huh? I thought they never revealed how much profit they made by making their album available online.

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Du mouvement chez les musiciens | LE GLOB DE BARGEO — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:36:44 +0000

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By: P2P Fight Club » Blog Archive » The War Goes On

P2P Fight Club » Blog Archive » The War Goes On — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:34:08 +0000

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By: AvangionQ

AvangionQ — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:30:57 +0000

More good reasons to hate the Music Industry and the RIAA, yet better reasons to support the artists and to hope to see more releases from independent labels …

By: dmango3

dmango3 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:41:43 +0000

one thing people need to realize is that back in 1974 a lp with 5 songs was 2 to 3 dollars, in today’s money that’s roughly 1.49 per song. to say that music is “too expensive” to buy is a bunch of bullshit and people just say it to make themselves feel better for stealing.

if record labels take too much from the artists is another issue, but stealing is stealing so stop fucking making it sound like your advocating the artists by not paying for their music. fuckin retarded cheapass hipsters, living off your parents money…the only money you need to save is for going out any buying booze before you get that 500-1000 dollar check from mommy or daddy every other week. grow up assholes

By: Z

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:18:07 +0000

Great article. The industry is just smoke screening, they realise they have an outdated product for a new generation. They need to get with the times and make the music a sensible price or distribute it in a different way, Radiohead proved that.

By: Gustav

Gustav — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:10:19 +0000

Radiohead never said how much money they made on pay-what-you-want. They also never said they’d do it again.

Copying an artists recording without their permission is still illegal.

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Pink Floyd Comics @ Cute Funny Pictures — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:12:05 +0000

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Radiohead testificarán en contra de la RIAA | Agregador de Musica — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:36:59 +0000

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By: The people of power is loosing control | varande.com

The people of power is loosing control | varande.com — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:10:22 +0000

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Radiohead vittnar för fildelare | Kulturbloggen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:06:44 +0000

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By: 1986

1986 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:03:22 +0000

ZAPPA for PRESIDENT!!

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» Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:49:55 +0000

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By: Radiohead przeciwko RIAA | P2P.INFO.PL - Centrum informacyjne technologii P2P

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:26:31 +0000

[...] Swojemu niezadowoleniu z praktyk RIAA grupa b?dzie mog?a da? wyraz ju? nied?ugo. Muzycy Radiohead postanowili bowiem zeznawa? w procesie wytoczonym przez RIAA bosto?skiemu studentowi Joelowi Tenenbaumowi. Potwierdzi? to manager zespo?u – podaje serwis TorrentFreak. [...]

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Radiohead to testify against the RIAA « Blind Jefferson’s Blog — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:44:18 +0000

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Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:03:25 +0000

[...] Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA Radiohead, the band that made millions of dollars by giving away their music for free, has very little to complain about when it comes to piracy. On the contrary, in a landmark file-sharing case, Radiohead has responded positively to a request to testify against the RIAA. [...]

By: Eruaran

Eruaran — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:03:47 +0000

Radiohead = Great band.

RIAA = Criminally insane Luddites.

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Anton Olsen.com » Blog Archive » Bookmarks for April 6th — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:21:17 +0000

[...] Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA | TorrentFreakLast month, Radiohead expressed its growing discomfort with record labels that abuse copyrights for their own benefit. In an attempt to take a stand against the labels, the band and several other well known artists formed the Featured Artists Coalition, a lobby group that aims to end the extortion-like practices of record labels and allow artists to gain more control over their own work. [...]

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By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:24:24 +0000

To be honest, I’m very cynical about this one until Radiohead or their manager makes a statement. Until then, it’s just Nesson saying ‘Oh yeah, Radiohead are testifying…’, so it sounds a bit like a publicity stunt..

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Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:01:43 +0000

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By: Bjørn Snoen

Bjørn Snoen — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:59:25 +0000

I absolutely love everything about this case. I love how Joel has been fighting the RIAA for 9 years over a $500 ticket, I love the moral outrage over the methods of the music industry, I love how Radiohead has the audacity to testify against the RIAA, and above all I love how Radiohead is proving the music industry wrong on every account, while getting rich off of it! It is nothing short of brilliant.

Now imagine what happens if the Pirate Bay wins the case in Sweden, and Joel wins in the US. With the Featured Artists Coalition, the record industry will be completely dumbstruck! How could this happen? They were on the aggressive everywhere! Attacking in every corner of the world! Even the google service in China is just a gateway drug into the darkest pits of the record labels! So how could they possibly find themselves so utterly defeated? Not even the artists are on their side! To me, that would be the ultimate prize, to buy me some fresh Radiohead while the industry looks like idiots, wondering what hit them. I can’t wait for this to happen.

On the flipside of things, if Joel and the Pirate Bay lose, what happens? We have a strengthened industry, but will it matter? Will any of us seriously consider ceasing our acts of piracy? No, we won’t, we always knew it was borderline illegal, and we didn’t care, because hardly anyone ever gets confronted with this stuff. And then there’s still the Coalition. This is a struggle that the music industry can not win, ever. Technological advances can never be restricted by the corporate world for long, and file sharing will simply find a new fort. And then there’s the very nifty clouds, like torrentz and Gpirate, which are doing absolutely nothing illegal, and can not even be charged with hosting the torrent-files!

There will be a day of reckoning, my friends. It is close at hand, and we stand on the right side in this battle. Whether we win or not is not even relevant, even if the music industry rolls out tanks they will not be able to keep people from listening to the music that they want to. Just remember to pay the bands that are deserving, for we are, after all, the Robin Hood of this post-broadband world, eh?

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Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA | A Consumer — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:26:28 +0000

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Radiohead Set to Battle RIAA in Court | RIAA SUCKS — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:21:57 +0000

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By: Jon Randelman

Jon Randelman — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:20:45 +0000

First of all thank you for the heads up that this was coming in the near future. If there ever were a band in position to take a stand against the RIAA it would have to be Radiohead. Not only are they a band with a big following that is no longer a part of any record label, as your subtitle says, the are a band that made money by giving their music away for free to their consumers. The RIAA should be very worried if this testimony comes to pass what was just another peer to peer lawsuit against a college student will be receiving much more attention from the population and by proxy, scrutiny as well. I have to wonder if the RIAA lawyers are considering dropping the charges because there is no positive endgame for them here, not there ever has been for them, but especially so in this case. A major band saying that filesharing has helped them make money, combined with expert witnesses in the Pirate Bay trial saying that their research has not been able to show that there is a definite link between the illegal downloading of music and the decline of cd sales certainly makes it seem like the RIAA is desperately grasping at straws in a dying business model.

I have to wonder, what exactly do you think the RIAA is getting out of these lawsuits? I guarantee that the lawyer fees themselves are more costly than the damages that are being sued for so it is not like anyone is gaining net profit from these suits. If anything, it seems like the RIAA is helping to create a generation of people that will do anything in their power to not buy music from record labels, as they have been so poorly treated as consumers in the past. What Radiohead has shown, and what the record labels do not seem to understand at all, is that the customer is always right. That and suing the same people who are needed support your company is not very good business sense.

By: Radiohead pode depor a favor de usuário que baixou músicas « Luciano Fadel

Radiohead pode depor a favor de usuário que baixou músicas « Luciano Fadel — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:09:04 +0000

[...] O Radiohead deve ir ao tribunal para testemunhar contra a indústria musical no processo envolvendo o estudante norte-americano Joel Tenenbaum. Joel está sendo processado por fazer o download ilegal de músicas na internet, através de serviços P2P. A informação é do site TorrentFreak. [...]

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By: B

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:01:58 +0000

The artists aren’t making any money off of these lawsuits. It’s all going straight into the record labels’ pockets. Radiohead is the first band to have the balls to stand up and lay claim on their music.

By: Now if only...

Now if only... — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:03:48 +0000

2010 FTW

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By: NKA

NKA — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:23:43 +0000

I can’t believe they offered to settle at a meager $500 and this guy turned it down. Regardless of the outcome, that was a bad move.

By: Fiend Angelical

Fiend Angelical — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:37:21 +0000

This is all well and good. But inevitably, our beloved interwebz will go the way of radio and television. Sooner or later, the internet is going to be owned by the corporate ‘content owners’ that artists like Thom Yorke and Trent Reznor are fighting against.

Praise be to Radiohead, but this is a Sisyphean battle in the face of the threat to net neutrality.

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Radiohead to testify against RIAA - Muzik Supremacy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:24:13 +0000

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Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:03:40 +0000

[...] Radiohead is doing something cool again (of course it’s something that doesn’t involve their music). They’re testifying against the RIAA in a case against an alleged file sharer. Just like when they tried out the “pay what you want” marketing for their last album, the band seems to be ahead of the curve again. Now if only their music didn’t suck… [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:54:59 +0000

@nicholaspaul
“Owning something without paying IS stealing”

ROFL.

Owning something without paying for it is stealing?

Put down the crackpipe, please.

“Owning something without paying for it” describes, among many other things, the entire concept of gift giving. I’d love to see you on Christmas day. “What?! You’re giving me a new computer? BUT I DIDN’T PAY FOR IT!! OH GOD! THIS IS STEALING! HOW COULD YOU!? YOU’VE TURNED ME INTO A THIEF!! DAMN YOU, BASTARDS! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!”.

Get a grip.

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Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:06:35 +0000

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