This just in: Snow is beginning to fall in Hell. Satan was seen at a local Lowes buying a snow shovel and driveway salt. Roads are slippery and a little dangerous. Be careful out there.The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is currently in court regarding their policy of suing people who have downloaded music without paying for it. Yesterday in court, the representative from Sony was asked how many suits the RIAA has filed so far.
From http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071002-music-industry-exec-p2p-litigation-is-a-money-pit.html
“Pariser (Sony) estimated the number at a ‘few thousand.’ ‘More like 20,000,’ suggested Toder (The prosecuting attorney). ‘That's probably an overstatement,’ Pariser replied. She then made perhaps the most startling comment of the day. Saying that the record labels have spent ‘millions’ on the lawsuits, she then said that ‘we've lost money on this program.’
The RIAA's settlement amounts are typically in the neighborhood of $3,000-$4,000 for those who settle once they receive a letter from the music industry. On the other side of the balance sheet is the amount of money paid to SafeNet (formerly MediaSentry) to conduct its investigations, and the cash spent on the RIAA's legal team and on local counsel to help with the various cases. One of the biggest bombshells from the cross-examination was Pariser's admission that the RIAA's legal campaign isn't making the labels any money, and that, furthermore, the industry has no idea of the actual damages it suffers due to file-sharing.”
Breaking news: It’s not just snowing in Hell, it’s a freaking blizzard! All schools are closed and people are being encouraged to stay in their pits and stoke the fires, because we’ve never seen anything, even remotely close to this!Microsoft has just announced that it will sell more than a million DRM-free (digital rights management) tracks in the Zune store.
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