[The RIAA’s] goal was simple: to destroy any online music distribution service they did not own or control, or force such services to do business with them on exclusive and/or other anticompetitive terms so as to limit and ultimately control the distribution and pricing of digital music, all to the detriment of consumers.
In August, the RIAA sued LimeWire for not complying with the September 13, 2005 notification of cease and desist. I’m pretty sure most of us are familiar with LimeWire, but if you aren’t, it’s basically an application that allows P2P file sharing. This means you can download entire albums with a click of a button. The RIAA has set a goal to take down all of the P2P software that promotes piracy, even indirectly.
Most of LimeWire’s counterclaim denied or did not claim knowledge of a vast majority of the music industry’s allegations. LimeWire’s complaint stated it was extremely difficult to negotiate with the music industry, which LimeWire felt took an uncooperative position. If LimeWire wanted to comply, it would have to conform to a standard similar to iMesh – which in LimeWire’s opinion is and was uncompetitive. Indeed, LimeWire’s counterclaim becomes hostile against iMesh, claiming it has an unusually close working relationship with the RIAA.
Who knows how this suit will play out, but lets hope that LimeWire does not find a way to avoid this suit. If they do, their success makes it that much harder for a lot of record engineers and producers to find a place in the musical world. There are a lot of knee-jerk reactions to the RIAA, etc. but the bottom line is piracy keeps good people from getting paid while the big guys still get their checks.
LimeWire Counter Sues RIAA [Slyck]
You have no clue what you talk about.
It’s precisely the RIAA which keeps artists out of the game, they monopolize music distribution.
Programs such as LimeWire aren’t the one making things hard for the music industry, it’s the RIAA who does, with their ridiculous pricing and royalties models where the producers and record labels being mafias that barely pay anything relevant to artists.
Their distribution model (RIAA) is obsolete, they feel threatened when just a few people with brains can create a software which makes music distribution models infinitely more efficient than theirs. The CD is dead, too much middle man.
As more and more media players are out there, the RIAA should think of instead working with companies like LimeWire, iTunes has their finger up the RIAA’s butt, believe or not, people DO buy legal music online, but iTunes is bad cause of their DRM, people are forced to buy the iPods.
The solution is the RIAA lowering the prices on their copyrights and licensing their music to all digital music providers, so that everyone can sell songs from $0.25 to $1.00, and songs should be played on any device, not only on ipods.
You also have no clue what you talk about. Many independent artists also share their music for free under creative commons, just go to creativecommons.com and see for yourself all the legal music download sites that there are.. many of them use LimeWire, Bittorrent and other P2P networks to spread their music.
When WiMax comes mainstream, and most of the multimedia portable players out there are wireless enabled, it’ll be the end of the RIAA as it is now, more Tower Records siblings will go down, they have to adapt to innovation, it’s a law of the nature of business, if you don’t adapt you die… tell that to Kodak when digital cameras came out, they adapted and they strived.
Piracy is bad, but the amount of piracy happening on the networks isn’t nearly as bad as the piracy going on the street. It hurts much more the RIAA the people that sell pirated music and movies on the street, cause any regular joe, without an internet connection stops and buys from them. There’s people making millions out of these businesses, those are the ones that they should go after… Networks lime LimeWire are simply a natural process called Evolution, the world is getting smaller and record labels just don’t get it that their way of doing things doesn’t work anymore, not with internet in front of everybody, people know that a CD isn’t worth $20 anymore, get real RIAA.
Legalized P2P is nothing more then a spyware botnet. Anyways the RIAA hasn’t released a decent album in 20 years they’re all crap.
i hope lime wire kicks riaa’s butt. Honestly, would u please tell me some rock&roll bands that are good now a days? anyone? i can name a couple chart topping, o wait thats right their about 40and up and are last generation artist who come out with a new cd. MY point is what u ask? its that limewire and other p2p make it so artist relize they suck. Stop tellin me their not gettin money. Hell even go look at rap, i mean probably 90% of all people whove herd rap but and liked it but would never buy the artist cd. Why, because its like a one hit wonder. Now a days there are no beatles, no more led zepplein, or even black sabath, instead are generation p.s im 15 comes out with gay literally pop singers… and they wonder why we dont want to pay.Last but not least wtf did anyone ever go and look at a singer and look back at themselves. I’m talkin the singers who are suing look at the names and ask urself does he/she need more money. How about kanye west. I admit i downloaded 2 songs gold digger and jesus walks with me. Why should i have pair 30 bucks for 2 songs with 20 other songs that blow. Besides look at him what does another 100,000 to him another Gram of a drug not just him any artist, maybe another diamond face it there set for life as it is hello concerts arnt free if youve ever pair for them. America id like to make a counter claim yepp its called drug free america i dl illigally with every other teen. We get songs for free to keep money out of the dealers and smoker:)
So, here is something I thought of. OK, say for instance, I go to my local library, and I check out TEN cd’s. I take them home, upload them to the computer, put them on my MP3 player, and there you go, I have TEN cd’s I didnt’ pay for, hundred or more songs I didn’t pay one red cent for…and then I return the CD’s the next day.
So, not only do I have all of this music for free, I got it from the LIBRARY nonetheless. How is that any different from me downloading a song from Limewire? It’s NOT different. Not at all. There are NO warnings on these cd’s. There is no law that I know of that posts I can’t copy this music. I don’t distribute it. I don’t share it. I don’t make copies of it unless I make a mixed CD, its pretty much clear these days you can RARELY ever find a good cd with more than one or two good songs on it. Am I right? Yeah, I think so.
Limewire does help these independent artists get their music out there. And another thing, what’s the deal with the porn you get on Limewire? You don’t see the porn industry out there suing people for downloading porn!
I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR THE OPINION OF AN ARITIST WHOSE SONGS SOME OF YOU ARE DOWNLOADING WITHOUT PAYING FOR THE COPYRIGHT. IT WOULD BE LIKE SOMEONE FINDING A COPY OF A LOVE POEM YOU WROTE FOR YOU SIGNIFICANT OTHER AND THEN PUBLISHING IT WITHOUT YOUR NAME ON IT. YOU WOULDN’T GET A CENT!
Not bad, it really can occur
you have to be an idiot to think that these aritist dont make enough money as it is why do they need everyone who wants to listin to there songes to buy there cd..sorry but limewire users are not making anyone go bankrupt..so therefore there is not a problem
someday the music industry will get it through its head – consumers are no longer willing to spend $20 an album for 2 good songs…period. that gravy train is closed, get over it. Trying to trap us using RIAA and the like only serves to inspire us to create stuff like Limewire & Kazaa.
HELP ME!!!!
Sorry..!!!
BUT I NEED T KNOW HOW TO MAKE A CD!!PLEASE HELP ME!!!
do the people who download the music get sued. cause i didnt lnow that it was piracy.
:)
A band will make more money if you buy a t-shirt at a show than if you buy their CD. Limewire puts the power in the hands of the artist and takes the record company out of the equation. An artist gets paid a couple of pennies on each CD they sell, the artist don’t care if you buy their CDs and if they do, you probably shouldn’t even bother with them because they are greedy bastards. Bands make money from touring, plain and simple. As for movies, if it wasn’t over $10 per person to see a movie in the theater maybe people would go watch them there instead of downloading them and watching them on their 50” TV with surround sound, which is far less annoying anyway because you have no one crunching on their popcorn behind you. Legal or not, you can’t stop the flow of information. Shut down one file sharing site, another one will pop up. The industry will never understand that.