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RIAA Sues Backbone ISPs to Censor Website
prostoalex writes "Music labels filed a lawsuit against major Internet service providers for not blocking access to Listen4Ever.com, music site located in China. The defendants in the suit include AT&T Broadband, Cable & Wireless USA, Sprint Corp., Advanced Network Services and UUNET Technologies." Wow.
RIAA doesn't need them sensored, slashdot will probably take care of the site themselves with a good slashdot effect!
All it takes is a good slashdotting. Way to support the RIAA!
Wherever will I download "Songs of Ocarina" and soundtrack to "Legends of the Fall" if they shut off access to this great site!!!!!
..they could start paying off government officials in China, it's worked well enough in the US.
- Peter
Thanks for the link slashdot this is better then Kazaa!
Nyquil = Nectar of the devil
Sincerely,
That Gigantic Fucking Amoeba-Thing from Zelda 64
Can we just get the RIAA, MPAA, most major computer software and hardware vendors, the major ISPs, portals and most patent holding corporations together and have one big fuckin' sue party? I mean christ, Adobe sues Macromedia, Macromedia sues Adobe, RIAA sues ISPs, one member of RIAA sues another member, someone gets ready to sue everyone who ever made a bot, the hyperlinks are claimed to have been patented and we're fucking liable, some of the genes in my body have been patented by some asshole. Fuck it all. Christ, the whole goddamned American-inspired capitalist corporate world fucking sucks and it's swallowing us all. Somebody please help me find a better country. How are Iceland and New Zealand?
"We can't make money on cars," said a representative of the Harness Makers Association of America (HMAA), "so they should be illegal. Think of all the poor horsies that would be turned into Elmer's if these criminal 'auto enthusists' got there way."
Politicians hailed the passing of the DMTA as a "strong step towards halting all progress and keeping the world exactly as it is. After all, change is scary!"
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
1) Screw customers
2) Screw now former-customers
3) Censor the internet
4) ???
5) Profit!
"Every time I build, you American show up and take down my wall! Stop it! You take down my wall for the last time! Stupid Americans!"
Or sueing the Department of Transporation for keeping up the highways that criminals use to distribue contraband!
I can always find the coolest technology by just watching who they sue!
I love the irony of a U.S. organization (RIAA) suing U.S. corporations (ISPs) for NOT doing something they're NOT required by law to do, thereby destroying the ISPs potential revenue (!), just because they're NOT blocking a site in a Communist, totalitarian country! (with whom the U.S. is spending a great deal of time, money and effort in opening new trade and business relationships)
A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's an erection for?
Yeah that's right. Pick on the ones who can fight back. Take on the industry that has taken every opponent, even the government, and lived to tell about it.
Hehe. I can imagine the executives meeting.
"What do you guys control?"
"I control cell phones."
"I am the master of cable."
"I am the undisputed champion of the US Internet backbone."
"So... what do you control for world domination?"
"Ummm.... CD music. Not anything good though, just the really commercialized stuff."
*crowd contains guffaws and laughter starts leaking out*
* Markerpen and PostIt makers for publishing technology enabeling people to use their CD's.
* Power suppliers for making peoples computers run.
* CD-R makers for making piracy easy.
* Microsoft for making WMA (which listen4ever.com uses)
* Linus Torvalds for making Linux and Bill Gates for making Windows which both enable music on computers thus encouraging piracy.
* Consumers for not buying enough CDs.
* Movie companies and game creators for making products that are worth the money so that kids use their money on DVDs and games instead of music.
* Themself for publishing music, thus making it subject to piracy.
Look a monkey!
"If this suit passes in the favor of the RIAA, then you can kiss The Constitution goodbye."
.... Uuh... shit you guys got all the good ones. Why couldn't you let me go first?
If this suit passes in favor of the RIAA, then you can kiss
"Derp de derp."
The way one shows distaste in a free market is to use the power of the market.
Everyone: stoy buying music and instead get illegal copies from your friends.
Oh, wait...
A speech...
If I were AT&T I'd just add blackhole routes for the websites of all the RIAA members.
Does anyone else see the irony in the US blocking CHINESE web sites ??
> If this suit passes in the favor of the RIAA, then
> you can kiss The Constitution goodbye.
Uh, The Constitution's *already* gone, "like a turkey through the corn." You can satisfy your kissing urges by kissing the police state hello.
"Whatever happened to fair use?"
-- Duff-Man
The RIAA domain has been dropped by its ISP. Something about turnabout being fair play....
there are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
Since Al Gore invented the internet.
Can we please call a moratorium on the use of the Underpants Gnomes bit? This is getting as bad as "All your base," and at least AYBABTU had a string of funny photoshops to give it some merit!
Thank you,
Nathan
If this suit passes in favor of the RIAA, then the terrorists have won.
Thanks for pointing me to Tori Amos' new album, one which won't be released for more than two whole months! Wooo hooo! I knew reading /. every day would come in handy sometime in my life.
So this single-celled organism, without so much as a finger to type with, has managed to acquire a Clue whilest the entire Recording Industry Association has not. I swear, sometimes it's a real shame we humans have insulated ourselves from 'survival of the fittest' because there's an awful lot of chumps out there that need to be Darwinized.
Dyolf Knip
For one we can ask all the big major backbones (whom the RIAA is sueing) to block their website at the routing points :)
That will be especially interesting when/if the RIAA gets congressional authorization to DOS P2Pers.
"Those guys were flooding our network with packets and DoSing some of our customers' customers. That's against our acceptable use policies and it was chewing up our backbone bandwidth. So we had to cut them off. No, it's just a coincidence that they were already suing us..."
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Sincerely, That Gigantic Fucking Amoeba-Thing from Zelda 64
Mom reads ./?
Do not taunt Happy-Fun Ball
More like Godzilla meet Mecha-Godzilla. Both are giant firebreathing monsters, and no matter who wins, the public (and the infrastructure) gets squished and charbroiled in the process.
This is like suing -trees- for someone printing copyrighted materials...
This is like suing General Electric for providing the light by which one can read copyrighted materials...
This is like suing God for providing the sight that allows someone to read copyrighted materials..
"Can you think? Pay us money!"
When does all thought become "derivative work"?
-dameron
Hmm....
Use 'slashdot stuff' in the subject line in any email you send me if you want to get past the spam filter.
'Plaintiffs in the suit include such major labels as'
So, since I can get to this site via RoadRunner, will Warner Brothers be suing Time Warner Cable?
It take a really ballsy kiddie porn maker to sue somebody for copyright infringement of their porn.
MHO. YMMV. Any resemblance between this post and real persons, or reality in general, was accidental.
Mom reads ./?
Yes I do dearie!
Objects in the blog are closer then they ap
I love it. China is a bad, nasty, totalitarian country, because, well, they block their own population's access to web sites!
How awful! How totaliatarian!
And here we have an actual case of ISP's re-routing traffic, to censor access to web sites.. IN CHINA!
How... all-American!
rash or irrational
Preferably both.
> An FTP request is an FTP request is an FTP request. If it goes to goatce.cx or whitehouse.gov, it doesn't matter to them.
:)
Yeah speaking of which, I'm starting to wonder who are the biggest assholes of the two nowadays
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.