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Investigating the RIAA's Billion-Dollar Claims

Posted by michael on from the gumshoe dept.

zrosener writes "I've put together a site with a lot of information on the cases. I created diagrams and explanations of the file sharing systems these students created that the RIAA is suing them for - and how they are functionally and technically very similar to Microsoft's tools built right into windows, and how they are dissimilar from Napster's." Good detective work.

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  1. Tuition's bad enough! by E.+T.+Alveron · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The recording industry is losing (has lost) its main distribution channel to a much more efficient one.

    Tuition's high enough these days--there's no need for RIAA to go after these kids' with lasers strapped to their lawyers' heads... I wouldn't mind paying for SACD-quality recordings, if only I could buy them easily and efficiently (read: online, one click at a time).

  2. might be useful for the defence by a7244270 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, I haven't been able to read your site, as the server of course has been slashdotted, but I gather you have collated a list of similarities between the software in questions, and (legal) software which has already been out for a while.

    Given that you made the effort to prepare this work, I suggest that you take it the final step and send it to the lawyers in charge of defending the students against this lawsuit by the RIAA, or if they have none yet, try to get it to their hands.

    Oh, one more thing. You might want to send it anonymously; you never know, you might be sued next. (I'm only half-joking).