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Verizon Loses Suit Over Subpoena of Subscriber Info
Brian Golden writes "As a result of a suit filed by the RIAA, the identity of a Verizon customer with a penchant for mp3's was ordered to be released. Man, how many people are now sweating bullets trying to remember what they downloaded?" News.com.com also has a story. If you've forgotten about this case, see our earlier story. Verizon wasn't making any sort of principled stand to protect its users' privacy, it just wanted to avoid the costs of complying with the (many) subpoenas it will now receive.
It wasnt me, it was my brother/son/wife/cousin/neighbor/someone-using-my- WAP
Pigs are certainly more intelligent than you! Lets start eating trolls instead!
Trolls! The other white meat!
Let me get this straight.
We now live in a world where anonymity no longer exists, we have to pay for music, and an ugly 18 year old Canadian chick is at the top of the US music charts?
I need a Tums...
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
>Just to enjoy the transient pleasure of tasting their flesh?
Yes.
Mmmmmm. bacon.
Johnny Cochrane: It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I'm am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit. The defense rests.
So why is Microsoft entering the argument? Are they getting into Broadband now?
I doubt the RIAA knows what IRC is.
I think the only reason they know about P2P apps is because it was on 60 minutes.
If I were the ISP, I'd comply with any request RIAA gave me for customer logs. I'd send 'em every byte every customer transmitted or received.
I mean, what else am I gonna do with the half-dozen old line printers I found in the basement? :-)
The next step will be for the RIAA to force Slashdot to hand over the names of people who have posted items expressing extreme dislike of the RIAA because they are "probable downloaders". NAZI Germany, here we come.
"Now that the court has ordered Verizon to live up to its obligation under the law, we look forward to contacting the account holder whose identity we were seeking so we can let them know that what they are doing is illegal."
RIAA : Now we know that you didn't know that all of this was illegal, so we're not going to press charges, sue you, or suck every last penny out of your lifeless corpse that we can under (over?) the law. We're just friendly people who want the best for the consumers!
Yeah, right...
Does anyone else think the subject size limit worked out REALLY funny this time?
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The RIAA produces the best music in the world like Nsync, Britney Spears, and uh, uh well my mind is blank right now on any new bands. But anyway since the bands listed above are such high caliber and will be remembered for centuries to come like Mozart and The beatles I am sure piracy has to be the real reason.
After all the RIAA is such a popular group of friendly, ethical, and hard working folks that consumers just love to buy from. They would have no incentive to boycut anyway. After all nobody even used napster back in 99 when they made record profits. Morpheous is so much more popular today and I am the big retailers are also hurting do to piracy. What they made money??? Well, uh I am sure its really still piracy. The economy is so strong right now and music is priced so low that it should just be flying off the shelves.
Poor RIAA they are the true ethical and honest victims of piracy.
http://saveie6.com/
create some music, copyright it. Make an mp3 of it, change the file name to say some new pop song, log the visits you get. When you get a download from one of the companies that looks for music for the RIAA, sue the shit out of them and demand the blood of their children in court.
It won't work, but would be nice to see a few thousand cases like these get some major publicity. Showing the public that the RIAA henchmen and RIAA are just as guilty
This got me thinking. Why not get rid of the performers all together since they are unimportant. I am a musician, and I would love to hear my booker do my gigs - really. That the music cartells have monopolized music distribution to the point where unless you kiss their nether sections it's hard to get work says that we have a problem with the music distribution mechanism not that the "Organizers" have anyinherent greater value to the process. Or maybe I'm totally off base and my booker is really hot on stage. I doubt it though.
...now those "your computer is broadcasting an IP address" banner ads make sense