Dont Link That MP3!

The music industry = corrupt.

Not only is this MP3 crap becoming more and more of a 'legal' issue daily, but the actual mainstream music is nothing but a bunch of boy-band, trendy ass, talk-to-a-beat unoriginal lucky talentless bastards who suck on the teets of the easily influenced MTV watching public.

Seriously you guys, think about it. Dre, Emineim, Snoop, Backdoor boys, Spears, and all those other simple-minded pricks can't even read sheet music.

"Sing this note. AAAAAAAAA!"
"Now you, sing this note. OOOOOOOO."
"WOW! You're HARMONIZING!"

And don't get me started with these hip-hop 'artists:'

Artist, "Okay, you thump on that key for 4 beats, then do this."
Keyboard guy, "Can't I add a cool little dealie along with a quintuplet arpeggio--"
Artist, "NO! We have to keep it simple to appeal to the mainstream and be on MTV! It's all about the MONEY!"

I'm sure there are some of 'em out there that may actually have real musical knowledge, but I haven't heard any. Maybe someone here can actually prove me wrong.

As someone who has a a decent understanding of music, the majority of the Top 10 is so damn simple, it's insulting. I wonder what Mozart would think if he heard all this crap today. :)

There are exceptions, mostly in the rock/metal area where most of the bands can read, play, and write their own music. A small piece of the many: Dream Theater, From Zero (underground band ;), Staind, Pantera, Days of the New, Alice In Chains, and a shitload more.

Ahh, yet another flame war. BLAARRRGH!

fuck those riaa morons

The whole linking debate has come up in 2600s DVD DeCSS debacle. Hopefully, a precident will be established in their case.

Thanx RIAA... I haven't heard for mp3board until now.. and it looks supercool. I'm sure there's plenty of ppl, that will now visit the pages mentioned in such lawsuits...

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P.S my word for the day is *BUNK*

oh yeah Nvidia pricing (Without competition) is VERY bunk

CD prices are bunk
Rambus prices are bunk
Intel prices (until competition) were bunk
Game prices (sometimes) are bunk
..mmm

fuckit .... search engines are free and they link to pr0n :)
life goes on..... :)

I highly recommend http://www.youwillnotfindanyillegalmp3shere.com

If you've got time, check out: http://www.whatisthedealwithmp3downloading.com

And click here to get the mp3 you've been looking for: http://www.therearenomp3sherebutthereshouldbe.com

I can't wait for big brotha to bring his big thumb down on us all.

Thanks!

-Lex

Yeah, next I'm waiting for the RIAA to hire jack-booted nazi cops to stand over my shoulder when I'm on my PC to make sure I don't rip any CDs to MP3 and directly email them to my friends......
anyone out there still think this country is a democracy?

From what I saw that site is just as bad as the warez sites that just lead you on a ad banner loop with the mp3's as the sucker bait. Click on anything and 5 windows open. Close a window and 4 more open.

Don't bother. Just get a good newsreader like newsgrabber that makes downloading multipart binaries super easy and harvest usenet dailey. It helps to have a fast connection. Or get bullitproof ftp and make some friends on irc.

Don't forget to schmooze, bribe and blackmail your friends for access to their cds to rip. I like MusicMatch for no other reason then it has the best codec - Fraunhofer - for the highest sound quality.

Well fuk me.. it has been ages since I have actually used an HTML page to download an MP3.

Save for random crap from MP3.com. I remember the old days.. using Yahoo or Altavista search engines to look for some random alternative song.

Intereting.

Must be one of those ID-10T behind the keyboard errors. Awfully common nowadays.

What next, shutting down IRC servers that have #mp3 channels?

Give it a rest, RIAA, and get the message already: lower your damn CD prices already, you scumbags!

Dammit, whats wrong with this thing.. grr and now there's like 100 posts in a row from me.. grrr

On second though i think sampling only applied to portions of songs and not...... the whole damn thing! :P

Ok, I think i've got it!!

In the past there has been much ado about some artists 'stealing' other artists songs (well pieces of them) and inserting them into their own. When sued however they said that they didn't steal or violate any copyrights because they were....... SAMPLING. Yes and so practice continues to this day.

Since MP3's are 'near CD quality' but not quite. One could argue that MP3's containing copyrighted material are just a form of SAMPLING and therefore perfectly legal. :P

any thoughts?

if any of these RIAA bullshit cases go thru.. We need to see about getting some type of committee(sp) composed of people world wide. RIAA can't shut down this shit on the internet. They're talking to the US justice system and US courtrooms, etc etc. about stuff that's happening on the internet.

News flash, US government.. You don't have SHIT for authority on the internet.

RIAA has even less.

Wow, if the riaa has the ability to shutdown about 100 million different websites(im guessing it's probably more), the fbi might wanna hire them.

Someone got to email bomb these dumb RIAA guys or hack they sites.
Tonight I am going to get all my MP3, before my favorite mp3 sites will be gone.

Music industry is just pissed that music players are so portable. If they weren't, they would have implemented some sort of Divx BS a looonggg time ago.

off topic: I just got back from Europe..and I'd be damned if I didn't see a freakin Britney Spears poster in every-other store window in over 8 countries over there. blah

You know, I just picked up a coaster called "Radiant Decay: A tribute to NIN", and it was total garbage. Think the record store will give me my money back? It's situations like this, that NEVER make me feel an ounce of guilt for downloading shit thru Napster. The only business model the record insdustry needs to look at now is, slashing the price of CD's by MORE than half, and making up the rest of their money in BANDS TOURING. I buy CDs of bands who put out good music, and I've purchased MANY CDs after listening to an unknown band's MP3. I'm actually getting pissed off now because many of these court cases should be THROWN OUT of court to begin with. Fuck the RIAA, fuck Metallica, fuck Dre and his idiot boy Eminem too...

http://www.easybuy2000.com/store/products/mp3/mp3_discman.html

Ordered it last Friday. Anyone else have it too?

This has some pretty serious implications. Basically this could be carried over to any kind of known linking of anything illegal if you want to get nice an vague.

You know this is all becuase of the precendent-based US/British law. Under French law for example, they could rule on this case one way or another and it wouldn't have any horrible repercussions in the future because the judges wouldn't have to take this under account in future lawsuits. I think that's a better way of doing this...

Oh crap..the music industry is going to repo my car because I listened to a song over the radio that I never paid for!!!!!

Seriously, the sites blantant enough to list "pirate MP3s" should get slapped around a little IMHO. Join me brothers and sisters in bringing back the all might BBS system and Wildcat!!!!

Hmm...i sort of want to ask steve to host that file (#39) locally and make a mini-news topic about it, but i'm not 100% sure it works.

I've gotten a bunch of emails telling me it DOES work, but if it doesn't...do i really want to incur the wrath of the shack? heh.

If you run a linux counter-strike server, and as_forest has been crashing for you...

snag this file:
http://www.lvcm.com/yurik/forestlinuxfix.zip (6k)

and toss it in:
valve/models/

but you don't have to take my word for it...
*dee dee deeee!*

LEVAR BURTON'ED

heh. use tarballs yurik. those are the universal zip.

Stimpy, its funny. Keep it up. Like that Marcus Allen one. Just appears randomly to spout some wisdom and then disappears for a week or so. Hahah, getting out-ed was funny tho. Everybody has one or two alter egos here, trust me ;)

Have they made the distinction between legal and illegal MP3's? I think that news posts/stories wherever they are made should include the word 'illegal'. MP3's are not illegal. However some of the content is. I think the distinction has to be made or else you get the scenario I ran into.

Someone wanted to send me a .wav file and I refused saying its to big of a file and that they should RA or MP3 encode it first then send it. They were like MP3? Thats illegal... *sigh* keep in mind that this was a recording of their own voice. Yes they were a newbie, but the point is that there is no distinction. MP3's are NOT illegal. Distributing copyrighted material is. If it happens to be in the form of an MP3, then that particular MP3 IS ILLEGAL.

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!