Comments on: ‘Wedding Crashing’ Royalty Collector Continues to Break the Law

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:43:22 +0000

“Using private detectives to investigate fraud is common. We will carry on doing it.”

Fraud? They come up with all sorts of crazy words to describe copyright infringement.

By: kaospilot

kaospilot — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:47:17 +0000

How low will these people stoop to get money. Just disgusting.

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By: Roze

Roze — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:02:32 +0000

See, copyright is inherently privacy-violating because copyright concerns the "ownership" of ideas or thoughts, which are not contained in any concrete object, but rather in ideas, which may even be embodied in objects which one does not own.

For example, it is the idea that one does not own the ideas or thoughts contained in a CD or in one's own mind, even though one owns the CD or one's own mind. Copyright is the "right" to "own" and thus control these ideas or thoughts even when it is contained in other people's CDs, or in other people's minds (such as, for example, memorizing a song and performing it, or memorizing a book and reciting it, &c). This, of course, fundamentally destroys freedom of speech and freedom of thought.

By: Why arent they dead

Why arent they dead — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:25:52 +0000

Anybody doing that at my gathering would face dire consequences.

This is the kinda crap people spend money on when there are criminals still raping and murdering, they are JUST AS BAD because they choose to harass innocent people.

What they are doing should be illegal, they should be jailed and have to face the criminals they should be catching.

By: mysticalzero

mysticalzero — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:50:33 +0000

So what if they protect the rights of artist and copyright holders, they couldn't even care less about people's privacy. That's terrible…
These people should be taught the meaning of greed.

By: musicphreak

musicphreak — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:19:31 +0000

The industry is filled with idiots.

What the hell is there legal left to do with music anymore?

By: chronoss

chronoss — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:19:18 +0000

here we go again illegal music , you above whom claim such get a riaa life its at best an infringement and is not illegal it is a copy like in star trek how they have them things that make them food as hte yare copies of "recipes" this is no different and look at star trek how the world could be wihtout patents, copyrights and other stupidity

OH but no one will create things.
WRONG
opensource proves people wil create and think of the wonders when people that create know that there creation isn't for sale and WOULD immediately benefit everyone

this is what the riaa truly fights because as we move form the cold war there areno wars to fight, only democracy as they try and facistly take YOUR rights away

By: EZEE

EZEE — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:04:16 +0000

I heard about the first case a little while ago in Ars (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081218-cop…didnt know these morons were going to do it again.

Greedy bastards.

By: Matt`

Matt` — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:27:27 +0000

"the issue should be that the venue was using music illegally, not the legality of the evidence"

Yeah, let's just take that to its logical conclusion and beat the shit out of each suspected infringer until they confess. After all, how the evidence is obtained isn't important, it's all about whether they were using music illegally.