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Internal MP3 Server? 1 Million Dollars Please

Posted by chrisd on from the these-are-not-the-oggs-you're-looking-for dept.

nkruse pointed out that our pals as the RIAA are breaking new ground. According to this Reuters Article, the RIAA has succeeded in collecting 1 million US dollars from Arizona based Integrated Information Systems. IIS apparently had a corporate MP3 repository on it's network. This is the first time I've heard about the RIAA doing this kind of thing. Looks like they're taking a page from the BSA handbook.

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  1. Hidden Feature by shogun · · Score: 5, Funny

    IIS apparently had a corporate MP3 repository on it's network

    Is this an undocumented feature of IIS 5.0? And is it a good enough reason to switch from apache?

  2. Hearing TAX by uberkuba · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you were born with the unfortunate ability to hear sounds and thus music, you should.. no YOU MUST pay the record labels.
    During your life you might accidentally overhear music that you haven't paid for and thus rip off "the artists".

    Thus, the TAX will be an innitial fee on birth, based on your preliminary hearing tests. If found to have the ability to hear, you will be charged the TAX as an annual % of your income. Should you have no income within the first 10 years of your life, the record labels will render your hearing useless to stop your criminal activities...

    This should address all those MP3 and other music piracy problems at the source..

  3. BSA Handbook? by Kraegar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I checked through my Boy Scouts of America handbook thoroughly, and I can't find anything in it about the RIAA or MP3's. Odd.