RIAA Petition - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

nothingx · 09-12-2003, 08:59 AM

http://www.eff.org/share/petition/

Take a Stand Against the Madness; Stop the RIAA!

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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is on a rampage, launching legal attacks against average Americans from coast to coast. Rather than working to create a rational, legal means by which its customers can take advantage of file-sharing technology and pay a fair price for the music they love, it has chosen to sue people like Brianna LaHara, a 12 year-old girl living in New York City public housing.

Brianna, and hundreds of other music fans like her, are being forced to pay thousands of dollars they do not have to settle RIAA-member lawsuits -- supporting a business model that is anything but rational. This crusade is generating thousands of subpoenas and hundreds of lawsuits, but not a single penny for the artists that the RIAA claims to protect.

Copyright law shouldn't make criminals out of 60 million Americans, and it's time for a change. Congress is going to hold hearings; we need your help to make sure that the public's voice is heard. Tell Congress that it's time to stop the madness!

The Electronic Frontier Foundation needs 10,000 signatures. I encourage you all to sign.

tinfoil · 09-12-2003, 09:36 AM

Another good petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mrap/petition.html

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Reports of battles and litigation over Intellectual Property rights - specifically copyright - from the four corners of America and from around the Free World attest to the fact that equity & equality no longer exist in domestic or international Copyright Law. Recent changes in copyright law have not served the public well, while the corporate welfare has been served time and again - their power and control over their "property" expanding at the expense of others.

It is evident, then, that a Good and Proper Balance be struck between the artists/creators, the monied interests who finance them, and the enjoyers and consumers of the arts: the public at large.

Macheath · 09-12-2003, 07:31 PM

Thanks for the link tinfoil, the EFF petition didn't want to hear from anyone outside of the USA.

Memalvada · 09-12-2003, 08:09 PM

I'd love to sign the petition, but alas, I am no American....

Sledge · 09-12-2003, 09:33 PM

I'd sign it if I weren't so cynical about petitions - especially when directed against a group that's already pissing off a nation and doesn't particularly seem to mind. 10,000 signatures, collected on the Internet, aren't going to make the RIAA say they're sorry.

lafemmefatale · 09-12-2003, 09:57 PM

Another skeptic of internet petitions here. In fact, old fashioned pen signed door to door petitions even make me skeptical. There is no doubt that everyone is pissed at RIAA's woeful double standards about 'stealing'. Alas it's a free market, and what everyone does is TECHNICALLY illegal, but it's illegal in the sense of Robin Hood sort illegal justice. It's not petitions that'll work but rather total bankrupcy may make them realise some fault with their system. Damn the RIAA.

TIO · 09-13-2003, 10:20 AM

lafemme, Robin Hood was still a criminal. Never forget that. He was a vigilante, and if we had a whole nation of people running aroung robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, there would all of a sudden be very little incentive to make yourself rich. Do we see the problem here?

As for internet petitions: they are useless. No internet petition has the slightest bit of legal bearing on anything, and will very rarely have any influence on any recipient. It's just too easy to fabricate the whole thing.

Esoteric · 09-13-2003, 10:45 AM

I signed

a1t3r3g0 · 09-13-2003, 12:35 PM

I signed. This link is at every single forum I go to.

ARTelevision · 09-13-2003, 01:51 PM

technology will continue to create distribution channels that break down the notion of ownership of intellectual property.

good luck.

Strange Famous · 09-13-2003, 02:06 PM

The RIAA are disgraceful infidels

nothingx · 09-13-2003, 09:09 PM

This whole copyright law got me thinking about American fundamentals of government. A goverernment by the people, for the people. Judging by the amount of protests and overwhelming response to them, it got me thinking specifically about "unpopular laws". You see, this should never happen in our governement because the people, supposedly, make the laws....

... in theory anyway.

TIO · 09-14-2003, 02:07 AM

No, they don't, moelster. The people vote for representatives, who make the laws. We accept that we won't like some of the laws, but those laws are written with our best interests in mind anyway. We just vote for the representatives who we feel will best represent our own interests.

tinfoil · 09-14-2003, 05:24 PM

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Originally posted by Memalvada
I'd love to sign the petition, but alas, I am no American....

The one I posted is a worl-wide petition, as prohibitive copyright laws are not copyright of the USA.

H12 · 09-14-2003, 08:26 PM

Internet petition...yeah, I'll sign it, but you can bet the barn that it'll be useless.

iamjero · 09-15-2003, 08:20 AM

I have been looking for some sort of petition to sign regsrding the Devil RIAA. Thanks, but I have to side with H12 and say its not gonna do much.

tinfoil · 09-15-2003, 09:26 AM

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Originally posted by iamjero
I have been looking for some sort of petition to sign regsrding the Devil RIAA. Thanks, but I have to side with H12 and say its not gonna do much.

The two minutes it takes to add your name may not do much but hell, is two minutes of your time not worth trying?

rev_skarekroe · 09-15-2003, 10:38 AM

Online petition? That trick NEVER works! sk

a1t3r3g0 · 09-16-2003, 05:57 AM

Damn, they've more than doubled their signatures since I've last looked!

09-12-2003, 08:09 PM	#4 (permalink)
Memalvada Psycho Location: South of the border	I'd love to sign the petition, but alas, I am no American.... __________________ "The weak are food for the strong, so die and let me feast!" - Makoto Shishio (RK)

09-12-2003, 09:57 PM	#6 (permalink)
lafemmefatale Insane Location: Vancouver	Another skeptic of internet petitions here. In fact, old fashioned pen signed door to door petitions even make me skeptical. There is no doubt that everyone is pissed at RIAA's woeful double standards about 'stealing'. Alas it's a free market, and what everyone does is TECHNICALLY illegal, but it's illegal in the sense of Robin Hood sort illegal justice. It's not petitions that'll work but rather total bankrupcy may make them realise some fault with their system. Damn the RIAA. __________________ -poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another-

09-13-2003, 10:20 AM	#7 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	lafemme, Robin Hood was still a criminal. Never forget that. He was a vigilante, and if we had a whole nation of people running aroung robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, there would all of a sudden be very little incentive to make yourself rich. Do we see the problem here? As for internet petitions: they are useless. No internet petition has the slightest bit of legal bearing on anything, and will very rarely have any influence on any recipient. It's just too easy to fabricate the whole thing. __________________ Strewth

09-13-2003, 10:45 AM	#8 (permalink)
Esoteric Tired Location: Florida	I signed __________________ From a head full of pressure rests the senses that I clutch Made a date with Divinity, but she wouldn't let me fuck I got touched by a hazy shaded, God help me change Caught a rush on the floor from the life in my veins

09-13-2003, 01:51 PM	#10 (permalink)
ARTelevision I change Location: USA	technology will continue to create distribution channels that break down the notion of ownership of intellectual property. good luck. __________________ create evolution

09-12-2003, 07:31 PM	#3 (permalink)
Macheath Junkie Location: Sydney, Australia	Thanks for the link tinfoil, the EFF petition didn't want to hear from anyone outside of the USA.

09-12-2003, 09:33 PM	#5 (permalink)
Sledge Pasture Bedtime	I'd sign it if I weren't so cynical about petitions - especially when directed against a group that's already pissing off a nation and doesn't particularly seem to mind. 10,000 signatures, collected on the Internet, aren't going to make the RIAA say they're sorry.

09-13-2003, 12:35 PM	#9 (permalink)
a1t3r3g0 Psycho Location: 127.0.0.1	I signed. This link is at every single forum I go to.

09-13-2003, 02:06 PM	#11 (permalink)
Strange Famous follower of the child's crusade?	The RIAA are disgraceful infidels __________________ "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered." The Gospel of Thomas

09-13-2003, 09:09 PM	#12 (permalink)
nothingx undead Location: nihilistic freedom	This whole copyright law got me thinking about American fundamentals of government. A goverernment by the people, for the people. Judging by the amount of protests and overwhelming response to them, it got me thinking specifically about "unpopular laws". You see, this should never happen in our governement because the people, supposedly, make the laws.... ... in theory anyway.

09-14-2003, 02:07 AM	#13 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	No, they don't, moelster. The people vote for representatives, who make the laws. We accept that we won't like some of the laws, but those laws are written with our best interests in mind anyway. We just vote for the representatives who we feel will best represent our own interests. __________________ Strewth

09-14-2003, 08:26 PM	#15 (permalink)
H12 I'm not about getting creamed, I'm about winning! Location: K-Town, TN	Internet petition...yeah, I'll sign it, but you can bet the barn that it'll be useless. __________________ "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle

09-15-2003, 08:20 AM	#16 (permalink)
iamjero Insane Location: New Orleans/Oakland/San Diego/Chicago	I have been looking for some sort of petition to sign regsrding the Devil RIAA. Thanks, but I have to side with H12 and say its not gonna do much. __________________ "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" - Joseph Stalin

09-15-2003, 10:38 AM	#18 (permalink)
rev_skarekroe Insane Location: Parts Unknown	Online petition? That trick NEVER works! sk __________________ "If I could have one wish, as in the fairy tales, I would unmake my past, and rise like Lazarus and stand in sunlight and banish all the dark." D. Tibet

09-16-2003, 05:57 AM	#19 (permalink)
a1t3r3g0 Psycho Location: 127.0.0.1	Damn, they've more than doubled their signatures since I've last looked!