Students sued for 98 Trillion dollars for sharing music.

buddykiller · Post by **buddykiller** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 1:49 pm

this is rediculous, this makes me just want to fucking boycott cd's from the companies that make up the riaa all together.... what about the motherfuckers who use mp3s to test an album first before purchasing???

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 1:51 pm

Well if they win then I'll never buy a CD again.

Veldrin · Post by **Veldrin** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 1:52 pm

Hey its those stupid kids fault. They could have stuck with kazaa, but noooooo they wanted more. I say that, though this is very stupid and sad, they deserve it. Not that I am on the big companies side or anything, its just they made a mistake and now they have to pay.

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 1:54 pm

I still maintain that the record companies could better spend their energies trying to use file-sharing technology to their advantage rather than fight it so vehemently. Does no-one remember Aesop's tale of the willow and the oak anymore?

Veldrin · Post by **Veldrin** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 1:55 pm

Chaos Angel wrote:I still maintain that the record companies could better spend their energies trying to use file-sharing technology to their advantage rather than fight it so vehemently. Does no-one remember Aesop's tale of the willow and the oak anymore?

I agree about how they could use their money better, but they only see money comeing in as a good thing. Also what the fuck is Aesop's tale of the willow and the oak?

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 2:03 pm

On the bank of a river sat a willow tree and a large oak tree. The oak tree was large and very proud. It would constantly ridicule the willow tree for it's inferior size and taunt it by moving it's branches to block the willow's sunlight. One day, a large storm came up. The oak tree stood up to the storm, thinking "HA!! I'll show that miserable little willow what I can do!!" But as the winds grew stronger, the oak began to tire. In time, it could no longer hold out against the wind, and it gave, snapping in half.

The next morning, as the oak tree lay half in and half out of the river, it saw that the willow tree had survived the storm intact. It asked the willow, "How is it that I, with all my might, stood up to the storm and was broken, but you managed to remain whole?"

Thw willow tree looked down on it's former aggressor and said "When the winds came, you held your ground and were broken by their force. But I allowed myself to bend, to let the winds blow around me, and thus I am now intact.

The moral: He who does not bend shall surely break.

Veldrin · Post by **Veldrin** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 2:06 pm

*clap* Hmmmmmm I must remember this story for future reference.

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 2:07 pm

Veldrin wrote:*clap* Hmmmmmm I must remember this story for future reference.

AtomicWeezleman · Post by **AtomicWeezleman** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 2:14 pm

-sniff- that is trully beatiful man makes me want to be a willow, i can see it now 'bend willow man, bend'

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 2:41 pm

So the RIAA is student a student for around 2000 times what Bill Gate's has. One digit less than the U.S national debt (I think)...

Words of wit from the RIAA president, regarding LANs.
"These systems are best described as 'local area Napster networks,"