Guest SyKo13 Posted January 6, 2007 Report Posted January 6, 2007 Saw this on another forum and thought SMD'ers might like to know By Nick Farrell: Friday 05 January 2007, 07:45 A FILE SHARING court case is getting the RIAA deeper into hot water, this time over the matter of pricing. For ages the RIAA has been claiming in court that the amount of damages it needs from pirates is $750 per song. This figure is being challenged in the case of UMG v. Lindor where the RIAA is being told that it must come up with a more realistic figure and closer to the actual damages involved based around the wholesale price for a single. Observers have been wondering why the RIAA has been fighting to keep its wholesale pricing secret. Many assumed that it is because the figure is only 70 cents a single. However, according to Ars Technica, the reason might be a bit more important than the problem of file sharing. Any proposed order would force the labels to turn over contracts with their 12 largest customers. While most details would be kept confidential, the pricing information and volume would not. This would reveal to the world if any price shenanigans were going on between the RIAA members and could cause them more problems with regulators than it would like. Already investigations into industry pricing have revealed a Byzantine system of backscratching between record labels and distributors and the last thing the RIAA wants is to have details of this information made public. If Lindor wins then the most the RIAA would ever be able to charge a pirate in the US will be between $2.80 and $7.00 per song. However the RIAA might also find itself up in front of a Senate inquiry. http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36723 Quote
AI James Posted January 6, 2007 Report Posted January 6, 2007 haha suckers, $750 a song is pretty damn steep though. Quote
Guest SyKo13 Posted January 6, 2007 Report Posted January 6, 2007 Yea no shit lol, I would owe something like 1,275,000 :poster_oops: :poster_oops: IF I had downloaded music :ninja: :shiftyph34r: :shiftyph34r: Quote
emperorjj1 Posted January 8, 2007 Report Posted January 8, 2007 lol fuck 750 a song Quote J. JMy CardomainFINISHED COBALT SS/SC DUAL ALTERNATOR PICS theres no such thing as too expensive when it comes to upgrades like that, because imo if you are gonna spend to upgrade then do it correctly rather then be a cheap ass ricer
D_Bass Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 so there trying to get rid of file sharer's? so if the caught someone with a ton of songs they would charge them $750 a song??? THATS HUGE :'( Quote To Slide Sideways Or Not To Slide Sideways? Head unit: Pioneer AVH-5000DVDSpeakers: 4 Pionner TS-G6842R Amplifier: Alpine MRD-300Subwoofers: 10" JL
emperorjj1 Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 ctrl alt del Quote J. JMy CardomainFINISHED COBALT SS/SC DUAL ALTERNATOR PICS theres no such thing as too expensive when it comes to upgrades like that, because imo if you are gonna spend to upgrade then do it correctly rather then be a cheap ass ricer
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