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Studios, RIAA Warn CEOs On File Trading

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the don't-copy-that-floppy dept.

pcosta writes "Record companies and movie studios are turning an anti-piracy spotlight on corporate America, sending a letter to top CEOs this week warning of illegal file trading going on at 'a surprising number of companies.' Full story on C|Net." Earlier this month, they also warned schools as well.

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  1. from the devils mouth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    after reloading a few times to see if anything else showed up on www.riaa.com i found their words for what they're doing http://www.riaa.com/PR_story.cfm?id=580

  2. rewards by xixax · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the same way that rewards are offered to disgruntled employees for information on illegal software installations.

    Xix.

    --
    "Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
  3. Re:Yeah, this'll work... by plus5insightful · · Score: 2, Informative

    For sure. I mean, given that there was at least a dozen dirty CEOs among tens of thousands, clearly that's enough proof for the Slashdot jury to pronounce them all immoral.

  4. Re:How to spend their money? by leviramsey · · Score: 2, Informative

    Jack Valenti's not a lawyer. He's an advsier (or maybe a speechwriter?) from the Johnson Administration.

  5. We have a legal streaming server. Sue us? by PsyQ · · Score: 5, Informative

    At my company, we're running a server were workers can upload their MP3s so all the other (1200+) workers can listen to them as streams via their standard MP3 player.

    We asked our local version of the RIAA whether this is legal, and after some debate with our legal department, they concluded that yes, it is. Even though you might argue that those streams could be saved to hard drive and taken home, it still is perfectly fine.

    I hope the US also has this much freedom, so you could just stream your MP3s or Oggs instead of putting them on a fileserver somewhere.

  6. There's a legal way to make them shut up! by Spicerun · · Score: 2, Informative

    All you have to do is quit buying any Recorded media period (It is perfectly legal to keep your money in your wallet). Don't download or copy or anything else to circumvent -- just Don't buy. I'll bet you that these same idiots doing the threatening from the RIAA/MPAA will be begging within 6 months for anybody to take their wares, and will probably be desperate to give it to the customers they way the customers want it.

    Unfortunately, there are too many of you though who seem to think that you can't live without new music or new movies. Until you guys realize that you can live, at least for a while, without RIAA's music, or MPAA's movies, you will continue to get fleeced -- And it will be your fault!