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1. Comment - WinMX Shuts Down After RIAA Threat

   (Sep 30, 2005 - 11:40 AM)

   How can patent rights expire, and music copyrights never do? Should there be a time limit on copyrights? Will the RIAA hire agents to stalk neighborhoods listening for garage bands playing copyrighted material? Can I sing in my car to copyrighted material that I don’t own, without infringing in some fashion on the “rights” of the RIAA? Since I don’t “own” the vast majority of music played over the radio waves, should my stereo be illegal? The free stations are, in effect, sharing files. If I subscribe to a satellite radio service, and pay them money, can I record what they play? I would be paying them to listen to copyrighted material.
   Where does this nonsense end?

2. Comment - WinMX Shuts Down After RIAA Threat

   (Sep 30, 2005 - 10:17 AM)

   Maybe the model of support of big business that is our government today will make it impossible for the little man to afford any luxury, such as over priced cd’s. I feel we are in Iraq to gain oil for a big business. I won’t steal anything that is not needed for life, and while I may sometimes feel music can enhance life, the RIAA has proven there is no artistic value to their form of music, so it is not needed. I purchased many tapes and LP’s that I can’t find anymore. Can I download those, and who is to prove I didn’t purchase those at one point? Innocent until proven guilty is the way it was, but the attack on our constitution, in support of gathering data on every individual in this country, for databases that make profit easier, may have reversed that. I look at this issue as a very small part of what is turning my Country to S***. It is a symptom of the cancer.
   Iraq for oil company, Saudi prince, and Halliburton profit. We suffer and die.
   FEMA appointments for payback of political debt and profit. We suffer and die.
   Higher price on needed energy. We suffer, and some die.
   RIAA (Sony) squeezing us all. The Music suffers and dies.
   Profit motivation makes us suffer and die, so why not turn us into criminals also?

3. Comment - WinMX Shuts Down After RIAA Threat

   (Sep 29, 2005 - 12:42 PM)

   Arakiel is obviously rich enough to buy thousands of C D's. So am I. No poor excuse here. His or her staunch support of big business is why he\she will willingly pay four bucks a gallon, not notice the body count of dead Americans in Iraq, not notice FEMA’s failure, jump at the opportunity to pay double the price of heating this winter, and stand so firmly on this insignificant issue when looking at the big picture. Call me a liberal if that makes you feel good, just don’t ever try to take away my guns, and I wish there were public executions. Maybe Arakiel would volunteer to pull the release on people who file share. What a non-issue all this is. If you really want to see abuse of profit, look at the National Debt. Ain’t nobody poor in the RIAA.

4. Comment - WinMX Shuts Down After RIAA Threat

   (Sep 26, 2005 - 5:39 AM)

   Don't forget that RIAA is just another name for Sony. They are the chiefs behind this organization. A Japanese company defending the first amendment? A cd that may cost 35 cents to produce that we pay 12 to 30 dollars for? They have already been convicted of price gouging, and emptied their warehouses of unsold and unwanted cd's by dumping them on libraries, as part of the court settlement. So a Japanese company that takes all the profit to Japan is protecting us Americans by standing up for the first amendment. Ludicrous. It’s what the American public doesn’t know that makes them the American public. Bleed and feed, Sony. Use American courts to maximize your profits. Just put some of your money into wiser campaign elections. You can then buy any law you want.