Send the stolen music back! NOW!

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:20 pm Post subject: Send the stolen music back! NOW!

http://www.sendthemback.org/

Send Back Your MP3s!

We knew stealing that music was wrong. Stealing is never OK. But, it was just too easy. So we told ourselves we were just "sharing" the music, because everyone knows that sharing is a good thing.

But then we learned what we were really doing. We heard our favorite recording artists telling us that our "sharing" is really shoplifting and piracy. We were stealing from the musicians and singers we love!

That was when we looked at each other and said: "No more!It's time to make it right by giving back what we stole!" And that's just what we did! We sent back all the MP3's we'd illegally downloaded. Everyone one of them!
Won't you join us in sending them back?

Send them back! Right back to the Recording Industry of America Association, the industry association that helps our favorite artists keep on making the music we love.

Send them back! We did...and we feel great!

Go to the site and learb how tp return the stolen files. There are many sensible ideas.

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

There are very few things in life that are quite so delicious as when you merge the qualities of snide and style. I would love to know the percentage of visitors who do not realize what they're reading, and the percentage of those who are concerned parents.

If I had the money, I would implement some of these ideas. I always thought it would be fun to load up a shared Kazaa folder with like ten thousand copies of my own music, and hope and pray the RIAA sued me for sharing "copyrighted material," noting that the RIAA apparently is indiscriminate about WHAT you are sharing when they tally your shared files, and that many of the lawsuits are based on numbers achieved by counting other files as well as MP3s, be they applications or graphics or whatever. Clearly if this were the case, they would see a mess of MP3s and sue me for sharing my own music. It would be even better if they were to download some, violating my copyright. Sure they're in my shared folder, but where does it say that this authorizes them to violate my copyright? Terribly unlikely, but a barrel of deliciousness to contemplate the ramifications of, for certain. Blah...

Cyx

nothing happens · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:26 am Post subject:

Man, I had that same idea! I even went so far as to load up a shared folder and leave KazaA running for a week straight...

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:34 am Post subject:

FEDEX those files NOW! Cool

I like the printout suggestion.. very good..
handcarved onto sone slabs would be cool to.