Why did Fat Wreck join the RIAA?
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Well, this question has been asked a few times and someone actually got an answer:\n\nDate: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:14:23 -0700\nFrom: Fat Wreck Chords mailbag@fatwreck.com\nTo: Adam Fogler afogler@---.---.edu\nSubject: Re: Fat Wreck Chords a member of the RIAA? Say it ain't so!\n\n\nAdam,\nWe our not part of the RIAA. We are a label that uses RED (though not exclusively) as a distributor, hence maybe that is why our name appears on the list. Still we've never signed anything with the RIAA. That being said, FAT WRECK CHORDS does believe in copyright and is against piracy.
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yeah right...you dont think the porn companies track what url you used to sign up?  If they didnt they wouldnt make any money and then skanks wouldnt be able to get 500 bucks to get filleted by some dude with a penis the size of my forearm on camera for everyone to see...
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Yes it is.  \n\nYou're buying music overseas.  Just because they don't pay the RIAA lawyers doesn't mean that it is not an effective loophole. \n\nBesides, they say that they DO pay royalties, right there on the website.  Good enuf for me.\n\nI've downloaded about 100 albums there, and have suffered no consequences.
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Technically it is illegal to download most music from Limewire, P2P programs, and Torrents. .How much you download is up to you.  The idiots that are dumb enough to get caught by the RIAA are the people who download thousands of songs and then share them all.\n\nIf you download, and only share a little, you have about the same chance of being caught as you would be to win the lottery.\n\nPersonally, I don't have a problem with downloading music, movies, etc, because CDs are too expensive, and the record companies take most of the profits.  It also doesn't bother me because I already have a CD collection and a movie collection.
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I think that would be illegal, try:\n\nhttp://thepiratebay.org/\nhttp://seedler.org/en/\n\nMake sure to contribute to the industry at some point
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Nope. The @$$holes at the RIAA forced them to shut down.
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because they were stealing music. actually it was more like getting paid to give people acess to OTHER peoples music.
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Because he has more sponser deals than any other player. And he has a wife that was once in a famous girl band. Thankfully she no longer sings.
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Because it has adware in it. I stopped using it once it started getting adware. I use soulseek. It's a experiment program that some company is using as a ginny pig (sp?) to see what work with file transfers and all that stuff. It's a little harder to get downloads, but personally I don't mind waiting a couple hours for a song.
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I agree. If you just want the one song, it is easier to dowload it-- whether you pay for it or not-- than to buy a CD single. And it costs nothing for the record company to post it, so it's all profit for them this way. Otherwise, there is manufacturing, printing, packaging, shipping, etc.
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When you're on a P2P network, you are broadcasting your IP address.  The RIAA, MPAA, etc. can waltz on in and start gathering IP addresses.  Theoretically, they can take down your IP address, send a subpoena to your ISP, and find out who you are, and sue you.\n\nTheoretically, that is.  In practice, ISP's aren't that good at keeping track of who had what IP address when, and the trade associations haven't been good at submitting the requests quickly enough to get them in before the IP's get all shuffled around (unless you're downloading on a T1 line or paying for a static IP and filesharing, in which case, pull the plug RIGHT NOW).  \n\nFurthermore, the RIAA MPAA has had a long string of bad press from suing the wrong people, using extortion tactics, or getting caught trying to sneak bogus technical information past the courts, and have been starting to narrow their focus to really blatant unambiguous offenders like Internet 2 hubs on college campuses.  The risk of getting caught is small, but it's there.\n\nAs for legality... Do you live in the US?  It's illegal.   There are some countries where it's not illegal, and others where maybe it is but the courts won't do anything to you.  But the bottom line is, if they hold a copyright, they choose to sell it to you, and they don't choose to let people give it away for free, you're stealing.  Even if you are downloading a song that from an album you bought then lost or broke, you're giving it to people you have no right to give it to.\n\nThat said, if you're having trouble finding what you want on Limewire, get a bittorrent client and look at http://torrentportal.com/ or http://torrentscan.com/\n\nAll the same stuff applies, though.
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I have so been waiting for this question.\n\nThe music companies developed CD’s with "planned obsolescence" (they’re designed to break and scratch). Didn’t we learn anything from vinyl records? I bought one of the first CD players for my computer 20 years ago and it came with cartridges that the CD went into. Sort of like a 3.5” floppy except the cartridge opened up and you could put different CD’s in it. It looked like a slim line CD case except it had a spring-loaded door on one end like a floppy. Why don’t we have those today? Because you wouldn’t have to buy another one when it scratched.\n\nDo you know how much it costs to burn a new CD for the music companies? I’ll bet it’s under a dollar. Where does the rest of the $15.99 go?\n\nIt burns me that they target some poor college kid to prosecute and splatter it all over news. The kid probably doesn’t even have a job but they’ve decided to make an example of him for the publicity.\n\nDigital file sharing is an evolution in technology that the record companies never saw coming and we’d still be in the dark ages being force fed their crappy CD’s if it wasn’t for the innovators at Napster.\n\nGo cry me a river.
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Forget these fools, use BitComet (download it at www.downloads.com or search for it with google) and then once you have bit comet, go to www.isohunt.com. They have they absolute best interface for downloading music. you can sort by size, seeders, anything. Also, you can preview what files are on the torrent file whenever you download something. It's really easy. Also, www.torrentportal.com is good too, they *sometimes* have reviews on the the file(s) you're downloading. Best part about all of this is IT'S FREE! Who cares if you're breaking the law a bit? It's music, is should be free anyway! People who only make music for money don't really care about the music, they only care about the $$MONEY$$!!
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A friend of mine recorded a CD with a hidden track, and I asked him why he did it.  He said it was a song that he loved so much he couldn't bear not to have it on the record. But there wasn't enough time to get perfect studio recording, so he "hid" it.  Other bands seem to hide jokes for their fans.
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It's a ploy by Hollywood to keep people from pirating their movies. They have to set examples by suing someone. Look at the case against Napster-it was a similar intent by the record companies to keep people from cutting into their massive profits.
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I gotta tell ya. YOU the MAN!!! I had the great Rock n Roll Swindle too. Shure do miss my old records.\n\nAnd as for the Buzzcocks... After Shrek II I had to go out and get the old LP transfered to CD.\nNow I listen to Ever Fallen In Love and Fast Cars and Breakdown whenever I want with all the vintage pops and cracks... Nothing better!\n\nThe Pimsouls, about all DK, (Even Frankenchrist) My big brother still has the original penis landscape poster in his garage...\nBlack flag, DRI, USA (Uncle Sam's A$$), MDC, Man the memories are flooding back... Time to hit the old turn table for some Naked Ray Gun... Feed us Featus.\n\nHere is some advice... Go find SLC Punk (the movie) and watch the credits... I think there is a part where they even go to the original Cosmic Aeroplane...\n\nSlam away my man! Killer question!!!
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I don't know, but I do know that a lot of those P2P music sharing sh**, have viruses in the songs. You download a virus while you are downloading your music. \n\nBe careful