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Analysis of RIAA vs Princeton Student

Posted by timothy on from the dan-peng's-empire-of-evil dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "Joe Barillari, a computer science student studying under Prof. Ed Felten, posted an analysis on his blog of the lawsuit filed by the RIAA against a Princeton college student for running "Napster-like" networks. He argues that the case doesn't quite live up to its contributory infringement claim due to limitations in the DMCA. A good read!"

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  1. What!? by HeelToe · · Score: 5, Funny

    The DMCA not infinite-reaching? Time to rewrite it or get a refund - they didn't get what they paid for!

  2. "Fair use" is listed in neither... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...the Bible (I'm sure you're heard about it) or the Constituition. God nor the Framers could care less about your piracy.

  3. Solution by worst_name_ever · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe the student in question could pay the $97 billion using those great credit cards they're always handing out on college campuses!

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  4. My reasoning.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lawsuite like this are why I gave up downloading music and moved onto downloading only porn...

    1. Re:My reasoning.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dear sir,
      I am writing to you on behalf of the PIAA(Pornographic Industry Association of America). It is known that you have 120Gb of illegally downloaded porn on your system. 1254 movies at $150,000 each and 6,134,563 images at $1000 each. In other words you owe us $6,322,663,000. I look forward to seeing you in court
      Yours
      The PIAAMAN

  5. Re:Did anyone bother to ask... by vegetablespork · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well i think we know how metallica feels already

    Yes, but he wanted to know how artists feel.

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  6. Re:For those who are interested... (Bad pun ahead) by trotski · · Score: 4, Funny

    I find it very funny that the official phone number ot the RIAA is 1-800-BAD-BEAT;

    I mean concidering that 95% percent of the new music they release these days is less than stellar; perhaps they really are advertising the fact that they represnt music with some bad beats ;).

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  7. only $96 'Bil? by chunkwhite86 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's only $96 billion dollars...

    Can't he set up an online donation fund or something? ;-)

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  8. Re:Number of songs... by offpath3 · · Score: 2, Funny
    if there were three copies of Dave Matthews Band's "Crash", would that not be suing for $450,000 for one song?

    And an extra $5 for poor taste in music!

  9. Re:Does the RIAA even use Windows? by Pharmboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Judging by how well they maintain their web site, the RIAA couldn't care less if the entire Internet and all computers curled up and died tomorrow.

    The RIAA dictionary defines the Internet as:

    Internet n. A pirating device used to transfer illegal intellectual property, trade encryption circumventing devices, and communicate plots against the RIAA. Theoretically capable of email, browsing and other network functions.

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  10. Re:96 what for INDEXING?!? by nicodaemos · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is when you root for a Pyrrhic victory.