Today's Music Industry Schadenfreude Moment

[Epsilon]

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4596/135/

Long story short; the big four of the Canadian Recording Industry Association has been violating copyright laws for the last 20 years and are now being subject
to a massive class-action lawsuit that could cost them from $50 million to $60 billion dollars.

Thoe who live by the sword, indeed...

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Epsilon

[Sweno]

... die by the gun?

But on a serious note, they have been rather flagrantly braking the rules they are suing others for. And I'm happy to see them dragged into court for it.

The (fatal) assumption they made was that they could license anything they needed, and iron out the details later. Regardless of wether or not the artist
wanted their music used in that fashion.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Wiregeek]

KILL THEM.

I want to find these fuckers in SEVERAL dumpsters.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Black Aeronaut]

Now now, Wire... We deal with degenerates such as these in a much more civilised manner... *Victorian accent* Off with their heads if you would. >

[Foxboy]

His math was off, it seems only six[/i] billion dollars, and I'd presume it was Canadian dollars..
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Kurisu]

The Pirate Bay Case, the Mininova collaring, and this. I have to say this has been a VERY entertaining year for me.
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DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...

[robkelk]

His math was off, it seems only six[/i] billion dollars, and I'd presume it was Canadian dollars..

Well, yes. But at current exchange rates, that's 5.7 billion US dollars.

Now does this mean we're off the US government's watch list of countries with lax copyright laws?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

But at current exchange rates, that's 5.7 billion US dollars.

Well, that's the difference between a pittance and real money. I have to chime in with my agreement: let these guys be punished on their own terms -- what was it, $20,000 per inidividual infringement? And maybe we in the USA should start poking around to see if the RIAA has any similar embarrassments waiting to leap out of a convenient closet...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[DHBirr]

We deal with degenerates such as these in a much more civilised manner...

Speak for yourself, Victoria. A la lanterne les aristos!

And yes, it would be utterly delightful if RIAA could suffer the same grisly fate in the Place de Grieve.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.