people have way too much time

Wally said...

Dear Douche bag,

thanks, this already makes me hate you and to not take you seriously.

I don't even know where to start. First people are considered adults at 18 for a reason. At 18 it is decided you are mature enough to make sound decisions for yourself.

not that i really care, but because i love playing the douche bag, why should it be 18. in other country's 16 is adulthood. do you suddenly get magic powers from baby jebus on your 18th birthday?

Limewire will not be shut down because it has legal uses. I believe this has already passed and the RIAA isn't going to get anywhere with LimeWire unless it's suing individuals which is time consuming and cost inefficient.

nobody's suing limewire because it isnt that big of a top level distrubtor. id bet less than 10 percent of music is first uploaded to limewire. try irc, or in our case, a blog that admits they are the bastardly uploaders

The RIAA have recently taken to attacking tracker sites for torrents. Since many of those sites are based in other countries that the United States does not have agreements with, those lawsuits aren't going further either.

did jenna have a torrent tracker as well? if not stfu.

If you can count the CD's you like every song on with only one hand, you're obviously not listening to anything good.

try not to sound like you have the best taste in music, and everybody else's sucks.

Poor you and your bad taste in music.

i called that one

Eyeball records is being greedy and selfish and making Jenna an example.

isnt that the point in suing a select few, so others get the idea?

I am a fan of making the punishment fitting. I wonder if Marc realized that this settlement may RUIN her life. This $30,000 he wants may be the difference between college and straight into the workforce, uneducated.

there is no settlement. eyeball wanted the blog shut down. mission accomplished.

I don't think the goal from such a small label should be to put someone out on the street with a lawsuit.

oh my, i agree with you. they should be trying to promote artists, and sell cds.

I would be in favor of Eyeball Records HIRING Jenna to help with marketing or even to see how much money and time goes into making a record.

and this would do what?

(This is what some computer companies will do with hackers.)

you do realize that these hackers also have legitimate computer/coding/network skillz. what recording skill(s) has jenna showed by clicking 'rip cd' and upping it to rapidshare?

Downloading music is a protest against the record industry that they have failed to hear.

how about protesting in a way the artists/companies don't hate us.

Where the executives get rich and the artists remain poor.

clearly eyeball records a major company that has oodles of money blowing out of there ears.

The old way of promoting music is no longer viable. The release of a tangible medium containing music is being no longer the viable machine for spreading music it once was.

however, every single artist in the world(source:tom) has myspace/purevolume/other that streams previews. steve jobs agrees with you, cause he enjoys selling a billion songs digitally.

The structure of the music industry is so bass-ackwards it amazes me. Music is a band's advertisement.

did you mean 'a band's product? why would i want to listen to an advertisement?

In my opinion the industry should move towards giving away the music for free and making money off of merchandise.

actually you are right. the bands basically do give away their cds. not in the way you are hoping for, but by not receiving much from each record sold. the label then puts most of this money back into advertising the current album and recording their next album. this enables a revenue stream for the future.

Bands should be looking for their profit from their shows and from their merch.

right again. most bands currently make the majority of their money on tour.

As of now few bands have deals with record companies as far as merch is concerned (MCR among them) and while there are a lot of dickheads running the venues who will make it difficult to make a buck for many bands the fans will always support the bands.

slow down and breathe. this is not a timed comment. use a period next time and re-read what you just said, cause it made no sense to me.

The music industry is moving away from these large companies who own the entire market and is now more than ever favoring indie labels and DIY mentality.

could i get a source on that, cause it seems most of the news i hear is about one record label buying a smaller one and absorbing it into itself, destrying this 'indie label and DIY mentality'

The internet has made a level playing field for all bands. And I for one think that music should be free

And i for one think beer should be free. along with whores, medicine, and education. hey that sounds like communism. lets try that, i hear it works well

Jenna helped Eyeball records just as much as she "hurt" them by creating a community to successfully spread and publicize music.

if that is true i expect to hear from eyeball saying that they made $30,000 overnightand give her a website (jennarules.eyeball.com) to continue what she started.

And YOU are the asshole for thinking that Eyeball records is in the right!

i think that you are a asshole, just because i can

(If you don't allow this comment you're officially the biggest pussy who ever lived.)

(i hope i made your day. brag to all your friends that YOU are now the biggest pussy)