Thanks a lot Michael Ja'Maul Redmond
PERKINS & WILL 1100 South Tryon Street, Suite 300 Charlotte, North Carolina 28203 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:59 AM To: Redmond, Ja'Maul; 313@hyperreal.org; Stephen Burd Subject: RE: (313) C.D. Boycott. Very informative site http://www.boycott-riaa.com/ Mike -----Original Message----- From: Redmond, Ja'Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:13 AM To: 313@hyperreal.org; Stephen Burd Subject: RE: (313) C.D. Boycott. I already have people wanting to put there name on a list .:) I love it,,BUT actually what I would like to do, Is to send a very informative e-mail including what the RIAA is doing and their Justification and Why as consumers we shouldn't alow it. And then set a date where we would stop purchasing c.d.s. We then can either send the e-mail to all of our friends and/or start small boycotts within our individual cities. Also we will send a copy to the RIAA with our intentions spelled out. I will defintetly start it here in Charlotte N.C. and to people I know through e-mail. If you feel that the RIAA is justified, then that's o.k. No one forces a boycott. But I just believe if that 30% c.d.sales drops to 40% or even 50% things will change. Now I heard the riaa was going to stop it anyway because of the counter-suit. But I can't find where that is actually a fact. CNN and I think Mixmag reported it. But the head of the RIAA has not made an official announcement saying the same thing. Ja'Maul Redmond PERKINS & WILL 1100 South Tryon Street, Suite 300 Charlotte, North Carolina 28203 -----Original Message----- From: Redmond, Ja'Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:59 AM To: Ploegmakers, Joost; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) 12 year old is sued by the RIAA "you know that something is really going wrong when an industry starts sueing it's own customers." Exactly MY point!! Ja'Maul Redmond PERKINS & WILL 1100 South Tryon Street, Suite 300 Charlotte, North Carolina 28203 -----Original Message----- From: Ploegmakers, Joost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:52 AM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) 12 year old is sued by the RIAA I think I saw David Bowie on TV the other day saying something like: you know that something is really going wrong when an industry starts sueing it's own customers. I thought that was so spot on! it's all getting totally rediculous. Joost > -----Original Message----- > From: Redmond, Ja'Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: donderdag 11 september 2003 15:41 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; jurren baars > Cc: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: RE: (313) 12 year old is sued by the RIAA > > > I really think the buying public should form a c.d. boycott until this > stuff stops. If they think a thirty percent drop is bad what if just > 10% of the people we contacted through e-mail stopped buying c.d.'s? > That's a lot of people. And the sales would drop even more. I hate for > the artist to be in the middle of this, but then maybe more of them > would step up also. > > I would love to try to get this started or join a boycott that may > have already started. I would need all the information,,i.e. > facts,,rules and everything to send to people so they can make an > intelkligent decision themselves. Does anyone know of where I can get > the information behind the lawsuits? > > Ja'Maul Redmond > > PERKINS & WILL > > 1100 South Tryon Street, Suite 300 > Charlotte, North Carolina 28203 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:30 PM > To: jurren baars > Cc: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: (313) 12 year old is sued by the RIAA > > > > > > > >$2000 for a thousand songs she allegedly shared through her computer? > that's $2 per song!!! > > Do you suppose that the RIAA is looking at each song and each artist > that she downloaded and giving them their fair amount? As if she had > bought a CD from each of them - and then does that affect their chart > position? > > I really doubt they are distributing the money to the artists > - many of whom seem to be rather silent on the issue lately (that I've > noticed). Anyone see/hear/read artists speaking out against what the > RIAA is doing? > > I think their lawyers could drop $2000 at dinner after the pre-trial > hearing (business expense - it's a meeting to figure out the "game > plan", honest!). > > > MEK > > > > > "jurren baars" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > 313@hyperreal.org > > mail.com> cc: > > Subject: Re: > (313) 12 year > old is sued by the RIAA > 09/10/03 04:31 PM > > > > > > > > > > the RIAA is now offering an amnesty program to filesharers, read here: > http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3399602 > > some people are fighting back: > http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18658&afl =frnd the same thing is happening here in the netherlands; 'stichting brein' an organisation that could be compared to the RIAA, has been demanding the names of people who's IP adresses they've got. But the internetproviders refuse to give those names, referring to those persons privacy rights. christiaan alberdingk thijm [kazaa's lawyer] points out on the website of his lawfirm why 'stichting brein' has not much chance of winning their fight for those names. i'm not sure what to think of all this. first of all, the extreme long time it took the recording industry to do something it could have done long ago, thereby only making things worse. and secondly giving the public the wrong impression; the impression that eventhough filesharing is not ok, it will have no consequence on you. the way they sue 12 year olds doesn't really help them either, it's like a shopkeeper who sees hundreds of people stealing from his shop day in day out, and finally does something about it, by picking out the weekest person that has ever done so, in the case a 12 year old. third, i'm really puzzled by all these settlements. $2000 for a thousand songs she allegedly shared through her computer? that's $2 per song!!! in court the RIAA would have to convince the judge and the jury that this girls filesharing has caused the recording industry $2000 damage. they could NEVER pull that off! they would even face a hard time trying to prove that there is a direct link beteen the decrease in sales in the music industry, and filesharing. just look at the shift in sales towards dvd's or even ringtones, and combine that with the bad economy. jurren _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. 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