

LimeWire founder allegedly moving assets to avoid paying settlement






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RE: Crazy Consumers
By cerx on 6/9/2010 5:04:05 PM , Rating: 2
Well congrats, you are a thief. And btw, cds were sold without DRM before. And they were pirated. By people like you. So what incentive does the music industry have to go back to that?

RE: Crazy Consumers
By Sonikku13 on 6/9/2010 9:48:30 PM , Rating: 3
Theres one reason - Stardock's game Sins of a Solar Empire. Created on a budget of less than $1,000,000, it became IGN's Best PC Game of the Year in 2008, and it sold 200,000 in it's first month of availability. It has no DRM whatsoever. The reason why it sold 200,000 copies in it's first month was due to low system requirements - appealing to the masses, and the quality of the game itself. Lets put it in perspective - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare had sales of 383,000 within the first couple of months of release, despite massive media coverage and having DRM. This clearly shows DRM results in a reduction of value in the consumer's eye. If Stardock, an independent developer, can succeed without DRM, why can't the RIAA succeed without DRM?

RE: Crazy Consumers
By The Raven on 6/10/2010 4:50:55 PM , Rating: 2
If your gonna treat me like a thief I may as well be one.

He's pleading guilty here. But he states why he's not ashamed.

CDs were sold w/o DRM before and they were not pirated because piracy is something that "didn't exist" (emphasis:yes, those are quotes) until P2P clients arrived. There weren't any bust of college students sharing CDs, creating mix tapes, or the sort. There was software that allowed you to rip the discs no prob, and the RIAA didn't sue those programmers.

A long time ago in Japan when MD was king, there were CD rental stores (like Blockbuster, except with CDs) and kids would just rent a disc and then make a digital copy on MD. There was no legal action taken. Is that piracy? Well the RIAA didn't seem to think so since no legal action was taken.


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