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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. Re:In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I guess these Universities are going to be next...

    Quote:
    A new file-sharing program called Phynd is burrowing in at a handful of universities...

    ...Phynd limits its searches and its users to computers on the network on which the program is running.

    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002040402t.ht m

  2. messages sent: by drDugan · · Score: 5, Interesting


    """
    This sends a clear message that there are
    consequences if companies allow their resources
    to further copyright infringement,'' said
    Matt Oppenheim, RIAA Senior Vice President,
    Business and Legal Affairs.
    """

    The message I heard:

    Large, money-laden industry group can use a
    broken legal system to easily take even more
    money from others by leveraging antiquated
    and ridiculous idea-ownership laws that need
    sorely to be changed.

  3. how big is enough by maraist · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can see a company like IBM getting sued for sharing millions of songs amongst it's employees, but a small company (less than 15 people) that I know of used a simple non-published mp3 archive, where people had their own personal folders that they could bring music from home, so they could listen to it at work.

    Though not enforced, theoretically, the only use is to allow individual listening to their own music on a storage facility greater than that of their own computer. It was more cost effective to have one big large hard drive then have a dozen large hard drives (not to mention the company was SCSI, so it would have been an administrative nightmare to upgrade all the machines this way).. Not to mention that the individuals worked on several UNIX machines, and could easily mount their drives as necessary in the different labs.

    To make this legit, they could have restricted access to each mount, and thus no sharing would occur.. As I said, this wasn't enforced however.

    How can a networked computer be allowed to legally space-shift legitamit media without fear of the RIAA / SS?

    The real question here is that in a small company, does the RIAA really have jurisdiction. With a company that small, people would ahve lent each other CDs from time to time anyway (often duplicating onto cassette tapes, which has never been really refuted).

    Should such a company be worried? Or is the gistapo getting closer to getting it's power stripped?

    -Michael

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    -Michael
  4. Re:Who's the Rat? by Monkelectric · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This happened to a friend of mines company ... This guy *installed* pirate software himself on alot of the machines in the office, when he got fired he called the BSA and reported the software *he* had installed. BSA blackmailed the company for 150,000$, they went bankrupt 6 mos later ... (they were headed for bankrupcy regardless, but the BSA signed their death warrant).

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    Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  5. RIAA sues Technicolor by AmigaAvenger · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Last week, the RIAA sued Technicolor Inc., one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of music and video programming, for allegedly producing pirated CDs of major artists.

    Just a little interesting part of the article, the RIAA is stepping on some major dollars here by screwing with Hollywood's connections. Maybe they aren't working for the same goal after all....

  6. Re:Wow by dattaway · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The logic of this event smells as if it has been staged. Some of the owners or investors may have had relations with those of the RIAA. They don't tell us if the RIAA is also contracting them to do some work in a mutual relationship.

    For $1,000,000, a great many legal arguments could have been explored and may have helped the restrictive entertainment laws we have. Sounds like someone made a private win-win deal to me.

    So, as a result of this, its legal to listen to the radio at work, but illegal to play a rack of CD's. Fine with those laws? Uh huh... They were either without principle and spineless, or accepting a deal. No one caves in like that without taking a kickback.

  7. So the bigger question is... by El+Camino+SS · · Score: 5, Interesting


    So who was the employee that got so ticked off at the company that he ratted out his employer to the RIAA? Is there a bounty now on piracy?

    ...because you know that someone within the company had to tell them. Otherwise the RIAA would have to break in to the corporation to their private servers to even know that.

    Ka-Ching.