Good news for song swappers!

“Song-swapper suit rejected

Federal court tosses record industry's case against Grokster and Morpheus, executive says.
April 25, 2003: 2:53 PM EDT



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal court in Los Angeles rejected the recording industry's case against online song-swapping services Grokster and Morpheus Friday, Grokster President Wayne Rosso said.

"The case filed against us by the RIAA and the MPAA has been thrown out of court," said Rosso, referring to the trade groups for the recording and motion-picture industries that had asked the court to shut down the two services.

The two services allow users to trade songs, movies and other material freely over the Internet.

The Recording Industry Association of America has aggressively sought to knock such services offline, saying they have contributed to a global slowdown in CD sales.

This is from CNN. Here is the addy if you want:
http://money.cnn.com/2003/04/25/technology/songswappers.reut/index.htm”

“Sweet! Screw the RIAA! :-)”

“Maybe the global slowdown in sales has more to do with over-saturation of the market with CRAP!





Ya know, ya can only stack $h!t just so high!”

“let the french buy their music....”

“why were these suits thrown out, but the case against napster werent?

and while we're at it, screw metallica too. their music rocks, but to b!tch and moan because some fans downloaded some of their music for free is ludicrous. the fans are why they are filthy rich. give back some, you selfish pigs.”

“I might have a little sympathy for them if I didn't pay $30.00 for a ticket and still have to buy my own supplemental oxygen.”

“2scoops - Napster hosted servers that actually had copies of the songs on them, which made them liable. Grokster, Kazaa, et al merely connect the individual people to one another to swap files. Huuuuuuge legal difference.”

“$30 for a ticket?? You got a bargain. The tickets I bought for this year's Summer Sanitarium tour were $79 each NOT including Ticketmaster charges.

Ticketmaster - now there's another rant...”

“Thank God I don't use either of those services!

Screw the riaa if they can't take a joke!

They have been ripping off the consumers for years, I say take it like you gave it!!!”

“Have any of you seen the massive amount of spyware that both Kazaa and Grockster put on you box? I'll never use anything made by those two bastards.”

“You can get rid of the spyware by running a program called "adware" after you install Kazaa or Grokster.

Anyone notice that songs from the more popular albums out there are sabotaged? By sabotaged, I mean that the volume will dip down in the middle of the song and a busy signal from a phone or something will play for a few seconds, and then the song returns to normal? I guess the record labels are starting to fight fire with fire.”

“I am very familiar with Adware and it doesn't remove all of them.”

“I'm a winmx girl.”