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Verizon Loses Suit Over Subpoena of Subscriber Info

Posted by michael on from the riaa-now-knows-if-you're-a-dog dept.

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.

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  1. That'll show him by JanusFury · · Score: 1, Troll

    Serves him right, that loser downloaded Justin Timberlake's new CD. Can't do that without SOME kind of repercussions, and it's either the RIAA or Satan, right? I say choose the lesser evil.

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  2. That's nothing by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sadly, the average broadband dorm-dwelling college student could, if s/he had enough storage space, download 600 songs in 20 seconds.

    Just imagine what they could get in an hour of work.

    Unfortunately, it's not uncommon for many college students to have hundreds of GigaBytes of MP3 songs that they did not pay for. It's all too confusing, and most students don't even understand what they're doing is wrong.

    I help with freshman arrival and computer orientation for them, and 90% of them have a first question of "How do I download MP3s?".

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  3. Re:More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed each year by BitHive · · Score: 0, Troll
    I was having this conversation with my friend the other day. I insisted that the best part about eating animals was when they died suddenly while under great stress. Scare an animal to death, then eat it before the circulating adrenaline is metabolized--its delicious, kind of sweet and tangy.

    The only downside to this method is you can't properly grind or deep-fry the animal first. I can't think of anything tastier than a pig that's been ground up and shoved up its own ass to make sausage.