RIAA - Campus Downloads

The RIAA has just released a back-to-school propaganda video called "Campus Downloads" that is full of lies, half-truths, omissions, and intimidation aimed at convincing students to stay away from file-sharing.
This is such a steaming pile that it desperately needs to be remixed. Someone out there needs to make a version where every lie is interrupted with an explanation of the real story, to be shown alongside of it.

You think it can't happen to you. You need to meet Derek.
Derek: I was in my morning Spanish class when the teacher went to the door and said Derek, you need to leave the class. I went outside and there was a campus police officer and an FBI agent in my room... They showed me some paper and asked, 'Is this you?'

[[Welcome to 1984 -- every Internet connection is wiretapped to preserve the business model of the music pirates who got rich ripping off composers to make records, back when that was illegal]]

You may not know Derek, but he's one of tens of thousands of people whose lives are now entangled in legal actions all over the country...

[[With 70 million more to come]]

Sharing copyrighted music files is stealing, no different from shoplifting music from a store.

[[Except that you pay a thousandth of the penalties for actual stealing, because this isn't about stealing, it's about controlling the future of music distribution, and the RIAA wants to stay right in the middle of it]]

Derek: I work 40 hours a week to pay legal bills... The weight on my mind, knowing for the rest of my life, having to explain why I'm a felon.

[[Like this fell out of the sky, like the RIAA didn't decide to ruin this kid's life]]

Look, it's simple: Unless you get permission if the music you find on the web is owned by someone else, you can't share it, download it or copy it, period.

[[Except for fair use, which is especially available to scholars]]

And in most cases if it's free, it's not legal.

[[Except for the 160 million Creative Commons works that have been created in the last three years]]

Making copies for your friends, giving it to them to copy...is just as illegal as downlaoding it.

[[In other words, making a mix-tape is illegal]]

http://www.campusdownloading.com/dvd.htm#

Category:

Music

Tags:

• riaa
• campus
• downloads
• mp3s
• mp3

[heffeque]

Now THAT is a bizarre reaction to a RIAA lawsuit.

[bluezone93]

well hes retarded by saying that its his screen name

[pb19111]

No there is a difference between shoplifting a CD and illegally downloading it.

Physically stealing the CD (or whatever media it is) is petty theft while downloading it gets you the chair.

Derek, I pray for you. You have been wronged.

[DSXmachine]

Fuck the RIAA.

[mushfarm]

30 seconds? what internet speed do you have lol?

[yisacknayrabin]

Uh, no. Because he PAID for the CD. As opposed to going on limewire and downloading music from other users, none of who paid for that music. Possibly, way way back, the original uploader MAY have bought the music but that would be one unit sold for maybe a million illegal p2p shares. In terms of sales loss, thats like if your friend bought a million CDs and gave them out as gifts. That's a big difference for the record company. You do see the difference, right?

[megaman4life]

I have a question. If a friend gives me a CD that he paid for as a gift is that illegal??

[DecimusAquila]

The RIAA needs to quit picking on college kids without money and start going after the distributers instead.

[TheKnives777]

OK so we need to start cracking down on the dj's out there sampling other peoples music to mix in their tracks. musicians are still making a butt load of money. Rap is the most popular form of music today. if these guys are hurting for cash so bad then how do they still afford $50,000 platinum chains $120,000 cars and million dollar mansions? oh yeah their really losing out. musicians have been ripping off other musicians music for century's now, and still do...

[vikingscool]

If I downloaded illegally, Riaa can sue me what

they want who cares because I will kill

myself! Haha!