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The RIAA and MPAA Target Day-Job Downloaders

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 15, 2003 @12:19PM from the say-isn't-that-a-cash-register-over-there dept.

BrianUofR points to this USA Today article, which says "the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America are sending a six-page brochure this week to Fortune 1000 corporations with suggested policies -- including a sample memo to workers warning them against using company computers to download songs and movies."

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One word... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-15 12:22 · Score: 3, Informative

...Freenet.
It is finally starting to work well enough to be useful. It still needs people to create mp3-specific freesites to allow people to find mp3s easily, but this could be the motivation.
And don't forget to.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-15 12:25 · Score: 1, Informative

...do your bit to make sure that the RIAA will never stamp out P2P.
Contents of the memo here by worst_name_ever · 2003-02-15 14:12 · Score: 3, Informative

If you're having trouble finding the "suggested memo" on the RIAA's website, here's a mirror.

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Re:Freenet -- by HerbieStone · 2003-02-16 02:17 · Score: 2, Informative

This is really a non-issue. You can packkage your java-classes with runtime environment into a nice setup.exe and then download and install all of it in one go.