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Minding Your Business: The Heart of Rock 'N' Roll is to Sue Them
Aired September 09, 2003 - 07:45 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: The recording industry has come through its first batch of lawsuits aiming to stop those who swap the most music on the Internet.
Andy Serwer is shaking his head, saying you know what? I (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to steal a while ago.
ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: I told you so.
HEMMER: You did.
SERWER: I told you so.
By the way was Helen Mazzoli wearing a crimson jacket?
HEMMER: It looked like it.
SERWER: She was really fitting in. Really fitting in very well. Kudos to you.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Absolutely she is.
SERWER: Yes.
O'BRIEN: She's got it on.
SERWER: Anyway, yes, I hope those guys don't download music, because the Recording Industry Association of America is suing people now; 261 lawsuits filed against people of all walks of life -- young and old. Anyone who has got a lot of music filed, shared, on their desktop is liable to get one of these lawsuits.
Let's take a look and see. File shares, yes. They're parents, they're spouses, they're roommates. Here's the thing, you guys. They're not going for the people who actually did the deed. They're going after people whose Internet access accounts were being used to download the music.
There's a story in the "L.A. Times" today about a couple of parents. They had no idea of what their teenagers were doing on the computer. Guess what? A thousand songs on their desktop. They're shocked.
The tabloids today in New York City, a 12-year-old girl on the cover, you saw her, and they're all saying, oh, my goodness, she's being sued. Well let me ask you something. If she had walked into a store and stolen candy and was being sued or arrested, would anyone be crying wolf and all of this?
HEMMER: They're painting a pretty broad brush on the legal side right now.
SERWER: They are. I mean...
HEMMER: They're putting the net out to warn everyone.
SERWER: They said that no one likes to be the heavy, but they're being the heavy, and they're doing a very good job of it and scaring people.
HEMMER: Yes, what's the deal with DVDs that deconstruct?
SERWER: Now, this is...
HEMMER: Or self-destruct? I mean, what's the purpose?
SERWER: I mean, this shows what these companies, these intellectual property companies, these companies with copyrighted material are trying to do with their technology, trying to figure out ways to prevent people from copying the stuff. Disney is set to roll out a DVD -- this sounds like on "Mission Impossible" -- that self- destructs in 48 hours. I mean, this is whacked.
So, here's what happens. You go to the store, you buy this thing, and you open it, and you put it in your DVD player, and 48 hours later it goes, shew (ph). It's red and it turns back and it's unusable. But here -- and it's going to cost around $7, maybe $5. They're really going to roll these things out.
Now, the way it works is -- you know, I'm thinking all kinds of problems. I bring this home. I'm going to watch a movie on Friday night. Oops, my wife decides we have to go out to dinner. So what happens? It won't self-destruct until you take it out of the package. So, it has a shelf life of a year at the store or in your home.
(CROSSTALK)
SERWER: It's exposed to oxygen.
HEMMER: You can see kids getting turned on by that quite a bit.
SERWER: Good morning, Mr. Phelps (ph).
HEMMER: Yes.
SERWER: Remember that?
HEMMER: And that, too.
SERWER: Yes.
HEMMER: Markets bumped up again yesterday.
SERWER: Another banner day yesterday. The Dow was up. All of the indexes were up. But tech stocks, look at that. I mean, that's very, very robust, and the futures are mixed this morning.
HEMMER: Good deal. Thank you, Andy.
SERWER: OK.
HEMMER: Talk to you later.
SERWER: See you later.
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Aired September 9, 2003 - 07:45 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: The recording industry has come through its first batch of lawsuits aiming to stop those who swap the most music on the Internet.
Andy Serwer is shaking his head, saying you know what? I (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to steal a while ago.
ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: I told you so.
HEMMER: You did.
SERWER: I told you so.
By the way was Helen Mazzoli wearing a crimson jacket?
HEMMER: It looked like it.
SERWER: She was really fitting in. Really fitting in very well. Kudos to you.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Absolutely she is.
SERWER: Yes.
O'BRIEN: She's got it on.
SERWER: Anyway, yes, I hope those guys don't download music, because the Recording Industry Association of America is suing people now; 261 lawsuits filed against people of all walks of life -- young and old. Anyone who has got a lot of music filed, shared, on their desktop is liable to get one of these lawsuits.
Let's take a look and see. File shares, yes. They're parents, they're spouses, they're roommates. Here's the thing, you guys. They're not going for the people who actually did the deed. They're going after people whose Internet access accounts were being used to download the music.
There's a story in the "L.A. Times" today about a couple of parents. They had no idea of what their teenagers were doing on the computer. Guess what? A thousand songs on their desktop. They're shocked.
The tabloids today in New York City, a 12-year-old girl on the cover, you saw her, and they're all saying, oh, my goodness, she's being sued. Well let me ask you something. If she had walked into a store and stolen candy and was being sued or arrested, would anyone be crying wolf and all of this?
HEMMER: They're painting a pretty broad brush on the legal side right now.
SERWER: They are. I mean...
HEMMER: They're putting the net out to warn everyone.
SERWER: They said that no one likes to be the heavy, but they're being the heavy, and they're doing a very good job of it and scaring people.
HEMMER: Yes, what's the deal with DVDs that deconstruct?
SERWER: Now, this is...
HEMMER: Or self-destruct? I mean, what's the purpose?
SERWER: I mean, this shows what these companies, these intellectual property companies, these companies with copyrighted material are trying to do with their technology, trying to figure out ways to prevent people from copying the stuff. Disney is set to roll out a DVD -- this sounds like on "Mission Impossible" -- that self- destructs in 48 hours. I mean, this is whacked.
So, here's what happens. You go to the store, you buy this thing, and you open it, and you put it in your DVD player, and 48 hours later it goes, shew (ph). It's red and it turns back and it's unusable. But here -- and it's going to cost around $7, maybe $5. They're really going to roll these things out.
Now, the way it works is -- you know, I'm thinking all kinds of problems. I bring this home. I'm going to watch a movie on Friday night. Oops, my wife decides we have to go out to dinner. So what happens? It won't self-destruct until you take it out of the package. So, it has a shelf life of a year at the store or in your home.
(CROSSTALK)
SERWER: It's exposed to oxygen.
HEMMER: You can see kids getting turned on by that quite a bit.
SERWER: Good morning, Mr. Phelps (ph).
HEMMER: Yes.
SERWER: Remember that?
HEMMER: And that, too.
SERWER: Yes.
HEMMER: Markets bumped up again yesterday.
SERWER: Another banner day yesterday. The Dow was up. All of the indexes were up. But tech stocks, look at that. I mean, that's very, very robust, and the futures are mixed this morning.
HEMMER: Good deal. Thank you, Andy.
SERWER: OK.
HEMMER: Talk to you later.
SERWER: See you later.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
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