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  • On the post: MPAA Boss Defends Censorships With Blatantly False Claims

    Mitch D ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2010 @ 11:05pm

    This aint so bad

    Honestly, piracy and thieves should not have a leg to stand on. Lots of people in creative fields have been hurt by these websites which are advertising based, paid subscription hosting of Pirated Content and even free content with no ads on servers.

    all of these are plainly illegal and laws need to reflect the illegality of this. Laws need to catchup to technology. This law needs to go into effect. Will it solve everything? no! but it will make it harder for people to steal music and movies.

  • On the post: Raids Across Europe Targeting File Sharing Sites

    Mitch D ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2010 @ 02:47pm

    Good

    I think this is a non issue. these sites are evil and hurting artists, filmmakers and many more. so ... they deserve to get taken down.

    stealing copyrighted music, movies is wrong, ends up hurting artists and creative people

  • On the post: As The RIAA Lobbies For More Royalties For Itself, It's Fighting (And Losing) Over Having To Pay Royalties To Songwriters

    Mitch D ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2010 @ 07:19am

    Royalties are fine

    sorry, when i hear 24 cents for a ringtone to the music publisher. i think to myself.... whats the problem with the RIAA asking for a royalty for artists who perform on that ringtone which is higher than the songwriters royalty, or at least equilvilent.

    sorry, but if an artist performs a song, that ought be equal or higher than the songwriter royalty. which in many cases are different people.

    also, artists ought to get performance royalties from radio airplay, for a long time, artists in any other country get radio royalties from airplay on commercial radio, but in the US it is mainly limited to songwriters only, unless it is from digital radio.

    sorry, this needs to change. artists get screwed, not only from income in the usa, but around the world, US artists dont get royalties from other countries at all, but artists from say Canada , UK or asia do.

  • On the post: RIAA Gets AFL-CIO To Support Performance Tax: Payments In Perpetuity For A Small Amount Of Work

    Mitch D ( profile ), 02 May, 2010 @ 04:31am

    Paying for performance on radio is good

    my god, i just don't get this. Performers getting a radio royalty is a great thing. other countries around the world offer this performance royalty, which gets paid by radio stations. Artists from canada, EU and Asia get paid. but american artists dont get paid from around the world.

    sorry, but here i think the evil is the NAB, which has successfully prevented artists getting a matching performance royalty to what songwriters get. This is only a good thing. helps artists earn a living when say someone like SAM MOORE can't tour to get an income.

    this is just and right, can't believe so many people are embittered against it, this has nothing to do with big or small record labels. this is about artists rights, and it is only good for artists. if passed, small and large artists to get income for their work. not tons, but a lil. and when all these p2p network or websites are out there making it hard to get income from record sales, this radio income is important

  • On the post: MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die

    Mitch D ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2009 @ 04:08pm

    Ban Piracy No Problem

    Personally, I think this is much ado about nothing. All this posturing about the right to steal is ridiculous.

    Sorry, but stealing music and movies has hurt alot of people. for example the music business earns less than half the amount it did about 10 years ago. i know tons of people that have lost jobs and earn so little it is ridiculous, all because the love art and working in the creative field.

    sorry, but the RIAA is right, illegal pirated content on the internet runs about 50-75% of the traffic at many given times. so why not ban it, track it and send warnings to those trade illegally? sorry but i agree with all of this. people shouldn't have the right to steal, and while i hate the RIAA lawsuits against consumers. i don't believe anyone has a god given right to broadband if they are stealing.

    let them surf the web on a 56k modem for a year as a penalty! three strikes and they lose broadband for a while is fair to me.