You gotta admit... This is kinda fun right? - Freeze-Frame Radio

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

You gotta admit... This is kinda fun right?

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

Riggs! I never saw you as a tree-hugging hippie!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

your buddy Newt Gingritch's head is just spinning!!

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:
your buddy Newt Gingritch's head is just spinning!!

You mean differently from when the pea soup comes spouting out?

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

UNITY is good!

I am so fired up that I keep forgetting that I need to do some work while at work!

Jules · The Wonder From Down Under

I'll change my myspace avatar to this tomorrow! I had all sorts of forum and myspace troubles today to be able to do anything but Australia shall join your battle!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Assuming that all of our efforts work, this could be a good thing for the station. Look at the listener numbers and activity of the forum lately. It's a good feeling to fight for a common cause.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

Whaddya say when all this is over we go to the Redwood Forests and chain ourselves to some trees!!!

Or, how about we work together, cut one down and build us a nice Redwood deck for the next FFR Bar-B-Que?

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

MzHartz wrote:

Assuming that all of our efforts work, this could be a good thing for the station. Look at the listener numbers and activity of the forum lately. It's a good feeling to fight for a common cause.

No doubt this is helping the numbers. I think old listeners are tuning in to see what's up and all the posting we're doing in forums and such is bringing in a few new listeners.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

MzHartz wrote:

Assuming that all of our efforts work, this could be a good thing for the station. Look at the listener numbers and activity of the forum lately. It's a good feeling to fight for a common cause.

No doubt this is helping the numbers. I think old listeners are tuning in to see what's up and all the posting we're doing in forums and such is bringing in a few new listeners.

Well, maybe I can help bump up your numbers a little more, and get some more people involved with this whole unity thing. I just added all the RIAA info and two links for FFR to my page at windows live spaces too. It's not as popular as Myspace, but there are a lot of people on it. Anyone that uses MSN messenger can set up at page here: www.spaces.live.com. I know some of you here use MSN messenger, so let's help spread the word a little further.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Thanks Ghostdancer!

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

WebGuy wrote:

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

Whaddya say when all this is over we go to the Redwood Forests and chain ourselves to some trees!!!

Or, how about we work together, cut one down and build us a nice Redwood deck for the next FFR Bar-B-Que?

I'm just gonna pretend I didn't hear... er, read this!

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

Thanks Ghostdancer!

Thought I'd let you guys know, I just checked my page on Windows Live Spaces and within the past 2 hours I got 175 hits via RSS feeds regarding the RIAA info blogs I posted. I've also managed to get some people (via the RSS feeds) to change their default pics to the same ones we're all using on Myspace!! It appears I'm helping to spread the message through there too!!!!

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

oh cool!I've posted a couple personal pleas to Myspace friends about the RIAA bulletin and they're reposting. One informed me she created a flyer and is distributing it through a couple artist networks she's on in CA to rally support. Coolness!

-- Edited by garougal at 19:28, 2007-03-08

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

WOW LADIES!

This is all GREAT news!

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

One more reason to hate them.....

RIAA Tells Students: Pay Up for Downloads
ATHENS, Ohio - The music industry is asking 50 Ohio University students to pay $3,000 each to avoid lawsuits accusing them of pirating songs off the Internet.

The Recording Industry Association of America asked the university to pass along letters to the students with Internet addresses accused of being involved with the illegal sharing of copyrighted music. The university notified the students on Monday.

"The downloading has occurred and we can't change that, but we can let them know what their options are," OU spokeswoman Sally Linder said Wednesday.

Patrick McGee, a local attorney the university arranged to meet with students, said $3,000 is the standard offer though cases have settled for as much as $5,000. He has represented four Ohio University students in file-sharing lawsuits.

Jenni Engebretsen, spokeswoman for the trade group, based in Washington, D.C., would not disclose or confirm what the standard settlement offer is. She did say no cases have gone to trial yet across the country.

As part of its ongoing copyright crackdown, the association has already sued about 18,000 computer users nationwide since September 2003. The figure includes 1,062 computer users at 130 universities.

The association said last month that it intended to sue more students and others on campuses in the next three months than it has in the past three years and that it would send 400 letters a month to computer users suspected of copyright infringement.

Letters were sent to 13 universities last week, giving students 20 days to pay a settlement.

A letter to one Ohio University student told her that she distributed 787 audio files, putting her total minimum potential liability at more than $590,000. The minimum damages under the law is $750 for each copyright recording that had been shared, the letter said.

Many students cannot even afford the $3,000, McGee said.

"I think the record company is smart enough to know that a lot of students do not have the money," he said. "They can't actually take them up on the offer."

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

You know, it's not that these guys don't have a right to pursue people that illegally download music.

But the way they do it is so wrong, and the damages they seek are so outrageous.

The whole purpose of suing your potential customers like this was to raise awareness and send a message. That message is not being heard. Lawsuits are NOT working, they are only further damaging the recording industries reputation.

If they really want to do something they need to continue to focus on the software companies and server hosts that make this kind of illegal activity possible.

The concept of going after a kid who stole a .99 song and saying you owe us $150,000 (which I beleive is what the maximum per song charge is) is ridiculous.

Why on earth would you not be expected to pay their actual losses and a reasonable penalty? Because that wouldn't be enough of a deterent? These lawsuits haven't been a deterent either! Your odds of getting hit with one are less than one in a million. No one fears that.

They just come off looking like bullies.

And it doesn't help that the very thing they're fighting is by many people not even seen as illegal.

Until the brew-ha-ha started over file sharing I SWEAR TO GOD I never thought there was anything wrong with GIVING someone a copy of a CD or Movie I owned.

My thought was it's not a perfect copy, it has NO packaging, and I'm GIVING it away, NOT selling it, so there's nothing wrong with that.

This is why so many people don't necessarily see it as a crime, and on the normal scale even I don't. I should be able to share my music with friends and family.

It becomes a problem when you're disbursing it for free to a network of millions of people you don't know. But then, WHO SHOULD the labels be going after? Doesn't it seem more logical to hit the distributor?

If you really think about it, the only thing a downloader has done wrong is receive stolen goods, but the goods weren't stolen, they're only being shared.

Iy yi yi. I don't know, it's a hard issue to really pin down. But I think the RIAA is going about it the wrong way, even if they are in the right on the issue.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

They can't really go after the server hosts because most of the file sharing that goes on is not on servers . . . it's "peer to peer". The old Napster did not host the files, it was just a database of who had what file. When you requested a file, you acutally downloaded it from another individual, not a big host server somewhere.

I do agree with you that they are going about the law suits all wrong. I think its more about money in RIAA pockets than anything else. Do artists actually get any of the money that is collected from these suits? I really doubt it.

I remember when Napster was at its high point. A friend of mine told me about it and he said "Look at this, you can download anything you want for free!". I told him I didn't see how that could be legal. His attitude was "Well, if it wasn't legal, they would shut down Napster". He stopped downloading music when Napster was shut down.