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RIAA nominated for "Internet Villain of the Year"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-isn't-that-nice dept.

Joey Patterson writes "Slyck reports that the UK's Internet Industry Awards organization has nominated the RIAA for its Internet Villain of the Year award because they support "'right to hack' proposals and other unworkable solutions to curb copyright abuse"." Congratulations to them on being nominated for this prestigious and appropriate award ;)

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  1. Re:This is getting silly by VistaBoy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The RIAA is evil because they buy senators and use them to buy laws that restrict our fundamental freedoms like the Fair Use of copyright law. Also, their copy-protected CDs crashed many machines, and destroyed the firmware on many drives. To add to this, the RIAA is NOW trying to get DRM into every media device and is trying to get laws passed that allow them to hack and DoS your computer so that they can keep you from "pirating" their music. Also, let's not forget their journalistic bullshit, like claiming that 4x CD burners are the equivalent of 4 CD burners.

  2. They are evil for: by Gareman · · Score: 5, Informative
    1. Pushing legislation that lets them HACK your computer because of alleged copyright violation.

    2. Grossly inflating their statistics and numbers to boost their reputation. Got a 5x CD burner? It's 5 CD burners according to the RIAA. The mainstream press (i.e., CNN) doesn't know the difference and reports the bogus numbers. They also inflate their losses, neglecting to tell us they cut their production during the same period.

    3. Supporting digitally "protected" CD's that aren't guaranteed to work on your CD player with no recourse if you were stuck with unusable disks.

    4. Driving scientists and researchers out of the US, due to their threatening to sue researchers who wish to expose security vulnerabilities in copy protection (Felten vs. RIAA).

    5. Harassing manufacturers that make digital recordings more portable, like in the Diamond Rio(RIAA v. Diamond).

    6. Harassing ISP's like AT&T and Optimum Online (successfully) for allowing P2P networks to exist.

    etc. 7.