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IRMA lawsuits. Good or Bad?

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    #2
    OfflerCrocGod
    Registered Users Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭OfflerCrocGod


    No because I might get caught.


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    Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭Moriarty


    No, I prefer to break the law with no consequences for my actions.

    Also, I think having gardai is a bad idea.



    Fcuking muppets


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    Dinner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,132 ✭✭✭Dinner


    I think the way they are going about it is wrong. If they go around all guns blazing then there will only ever be animosity between them and nearly anyone whether they download or not.

    Cease and Desist letters first, and the if it does not stop, a lawsuit.


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    REDZ
    Registered Users Posts: 273 ✭✭REDZ


    i think they are wrong. I think the entire music business is undergoing a profound change, and these law suits are some of the last efforts of the old music business to protect their interests. i think that artists in the future will gain the vast majority of their income from touring and playing gigs, not from record sales, instead their recordings will be distributed freely to ensure a good attendance at live performances. uploading tunes won't be a crime in five years, so i think its unfair that these people are punished now.


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    Infini
    Registered Users Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Infini


    Arabel wrote:
    I think the way they are going about it is wrong. If they go around all guns blazing then there will only ever be animosity between them and nearly anyone whether they download or not.

    Cease and Desist letters first, and the if it does not stop, a lawsuit.

    That would be the more PR friendly approach to doing things as well IMO.


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    Infini
    Registered Users Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Infini


    Moriarty wrote:
    Fcuking muppets

    Do you always have to be so negative... :rolleyes:


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    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Infini wrote:
    Do you always have to be so negative... :rolleyes:
    Oh I do hope he thinks "No" when he reads that.


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    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    /me wonders who the one person is who fancies a lawsuit?


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    ThatBloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭ThatBloke


    We interviewed the head of IRMA on our show before Christmas and he said they had software that was going to put pop-up messages on the screens of downloaders warning them to desist (can't figure out how it'd work though)

    They seem to be going after those who share first because of the ambiguity of downloading (legal downloads and ripped songs from CDs)

    There are also issues of privacy to be considered, he gave us the impression when we interviewed him that they were scanning people's PCs for music


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    bagocans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭bagocans


    Photocopying of books is illegal as is home copying tapes, cd's and computer games, and it never spelled the end of these.
    IRMA haven't even realised that the world has changed alot in the last 10-5 years and legal downloading of music is the way forward, they're behind the times and this is a pathetic knee jerk reaction from old fogees who only care about lining their pockets, not the artists who get pittance anyway compared to them.
    Times have changed, bands release stuff on the internet now before releasing their albums so word spreads and they create a fan base.
    If you like what you download you'll probably eventually buy it on cd etc anyway!, and what you don't buy you probably never would have in the first place but it's brodened your musical tastes.


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