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RIAA Moves Against College-Network Fileswapping
pazu13 writes "The RIAA is taking action against college "Napster networks". It's suing four network operators, two at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, one at Princeton University, and one at Michigan Technological University. Don't know where this is going, but I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc... my speed across the network is ridiculously faster than when I try to access outside sources."
Quit College.
shutting down warez sites so i can't sample software?
HA, like they actually play music on MTV.
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Yep, 'fraid so. SAMBA's an illegal filesharing tool. Be sure to delete it from your machines, everyone. And if anyone has a machine running any FTP or HTTP servers, they've got to go too. Can't have that sort of thing going on, you know.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Encode your files using OGG-S. I am sure your college's IT community would be a great testing and developing environment.
If they crack the encryption, unleash the DMCA on them. Settle only if they let CowboyNeal screw lightbulbs into Hilary Rosen's ears.
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The RIAA is horribly misguided. Those networks are used to share movies, not music. Yeesh.
Actually, to be more specific, those networks are used to share porn movies, not music. :)
GMD
watch this
Once again, the RIAA demonstrates that it doesn't know who or what it's up against.
I can only imagine how many war-dialers will go into infinite-loop mode calling that number.
I'm beginning to think that RIAA really stands for Really Ignorant Arrogant Assholes.
--K.
Sig: Bad people happen. Try to avoid being one of them.
Hands.
Hands should be made illegal.
Especially "idle hands", as they "do the devil's work" (ie sharing files).
Remember kids, it's good to share, until you become a teenager, at which point sharing is illegal and will result in prison time.
From this point forward, the only lawful act shall be giving money to companies working for or affiliated with the RIAA.
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Yes. Remember, alcohol is also illegal, and they certainly try and crack down on that more than they do on piracy. Do they think that's gonna stop us?
The RIAA is taking legal action against the Department of Defense. It believes the DoD has caused serious harm to RIAA members, in its harbouring of and creation of the Internet.
"The people who built this huge network know full well what they are doing--operating a sophisticated network designed to enable widespread music piracy," RIAA President Cary Sherman said. "They built a protocol called TCP/IP that has been shown to provide ample opportunity for stealing music online."
If you're listening to bands outside of all this, it doesn't effect you anyway.
Right. If you're careful about only trading MP3s that have only been legally downloaded from MP3.com, band websites, etc... then the RIAA won't bother you at all. They do extensive checking for each and every song to make sure that 1) The RIAA represents the artist in question, 2) that it's the right song, and not something with a similar name, and 3) that the band hasn't decided to make the MP3 available intentionally. Only then do they reluctantly issue a cease & desist order.
They would never abuse their position and simply issue a blanket C&D on the mere suspicion that there might be an infringement. Sure, it's more expensive to do the careful checking, but they can't take the chance that they might alienate their customers.
The DMCA represents a significant amount of time and money expended by the RIAA. Are you saying that anyone should be able to just invoke a law, when they never paid for it? That's un-American!
At my wife's graduation from law school, the speaker said "I've studied law books all my life. I've read about every kind of behavior, good and bad, and the legal results. It is my considered opinion that you don't want to get into one of those books. Not for ANY reason."
That is the best legal advice anyone can give you. Ask anyone who is part of the system. Judges are people and being a judge is tremendously hard on a person's common sense and humility. The law is designed to offer the greatest amount of justice possible given that every party involved wants the greatest amount of injustice. And it's not limited to the contending parties.
On the other hand, this system is tremendously better than one that does not try to protect any "Rights". Period. You can come out on top. You'll just have the scars to prove it.
sed 's/commun/terror/g' mccarthy > bush; sed 's/terror/saddam/g' bush > bush_wacked