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RIAA Chats With Song Swappers
einer writes "Orignally seen
on Drudge; in reaction to their recent loss in court, an IM was sent to 'hundreds of thousands' of grokster and Kazaa users by the RIAA warning that they were NOT anonymous and that they could face legal consequences if they did not stop sharing copyrighted material. The IM was sent to users hosting copyrighted songs for download. Is this a scare tactic or an honest attempt to reform the p2p user community, or both?"
Hi CtC? /ignore RIAA
<user> Uh, no.
<RIAA> ASL plz
<user> get lost
<RIAA> plz talk 2 me!
<RIAA> plz talk 2 me!
<RIAA> plz talk 2 me!
<RIAA> plz talk 2 me!
<user> fsck off!
<RIAA> y r u so mean?
<RIAA> wats your name?
<user> damnit! leave me alone!
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
I bet that this worked for them. At least for a few days.
I know a lot of ppl who would stop trading songs online and be a bit scared after that. Specially if they live in the us where personal liberties are not in an all time high, and the riaa/mpaa hold a lot of sway.
I guess that after a few days of reading online how the courts ruled agaist them and yadda yadda trading would resume.
I use kazaa for trading of tv shows because as i am not in the us i can't enjoy the pleasures of PVRs and building my own for a few shows is not worth it. I used audiogalaxy for music as i could find there the stuff i like, but not kazaa so i don't have a normal paramater with which to check against. But i bet that similar searches on popular music a few days ago and tomorrow will show significant difference in found sources
Someone kept repeat messaging me "What the F**K do you think you're doing?" so I replied, "I'm download your album BIACH!"
No the whole point is to promote money. If you want progress you will have to find the politi....oh nm its not worth the bad karma.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Me: "Man the desperate things you try... How does it feel to be obsolete? Artists don't need you anymore. Consumers don't need you anymore. I hear your industry fading. Better brush up on your customer service skills, your gonna need them in your new job at Mcdonalds. If they hire form scum sucking executive types. ah... I hear the clock... tick tick tick tick"
Yeah but that means we have to find an equivalent to the "having SUVs supports terrorism" ads to fight back with.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
RIAA MP3 S.W.A.T. teams to mop up evil music swappers!
You are participating in the piracy of copyrighted materials. You are not anonymous, and further violations can result in legal action being taken.
<l4m0rman2000X> omg wtf
<RIAA> Please remove all copyrighted material from your shared folder and refrain from downloading copyrighted material in the future.
<l4m0rman2000X> gimme the new limp bizkit faggot
<l4m0rman2000X> fuck u
<RIAA> I am attempting to converse in a civil manner. You have been given a warning to cease your illegal activities. Failure to do so could result in legal action being taken.
<l4m0rman2000X> shut up b4 i ddos u!!!!!1 take ur jewish lawyer crp back 2 israel!!!!1
*** Quits: l4m0rman2000X (Leaving)
Yeah thats the problem with p2p. Now IRC warez, thats a community.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Your patriotic comments have brought a tear to my eye. I will now download 1,000,000 Dixie Chicks MP3s and then delete them to show my disgust.
At least they're not trying to get me to look at their webcam...
Better make that half a million to save some time for Springsteen ...
I find it even more amusing that the RIAA has replaced their people with bots. Heres why:
We all claim the RIAA mainly is a representative for music-distributers that are no longer necasery. And then they start doing their dirty work (which is all they do, apperantly) with bots!
They have thus proven our claim is correct, by employing technology to do their work, instead of doing it themselves :)
Oh. And this is meant to be moderated funny, not insightfull, if anyone cares to spend modarator points on such a lousy post.
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.
Christina Aguilera actually has vocal talent, and some nice songs (if you bothered buying an album instead of downloading the "hits" from kazaa), as opposed to the rest of them, which are, yes, shit.
Am I the only one who just fired up Kazaalite, hoping to get one of these messages? The firewall is all set, I'd love an authentic RIAA tongue-lashing to screencap.
Maybe it'll be worth something twenty years from now on ebay.
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"Dude, I'll trade you a cease-and-desist by Harry Fox for that"
"Deal!"
RIAA> We've noticed that you host copyrighted material on your PC. You are not anonymous. Please cease and desist.
Eliza> What makes you think You are not anonymous?
RIAA> Eh?
Eliza> Please go on.
RIAA> Are you kidding me?
Elia> Has it something to do with your childhood?
RIAA> Oh.. now as you said that I recall my parents being very cruel to me. They refused to buy me a Walkman for my 13th birthday..
Lisp is the Tengwar of programming languages.
Being targetted by the RIAA might be seen as some kind of street cred. I know I'm going to leave my copy of Kazaa running all day, trading files with more people with usual, until I can brag about receiving my own instant message.
Most of the marijuana I get seems to come from British Columbia these days. As we all know the Al-Canuck and Hoser-amas cartels are notorious terrorist groups funded through Molson and the Canadian Snack-Food Industry.
-- thinkyhead software and media
I had heard of Kazaa before but had not bothered to give it a try. This report really caught my eye so I am now downloading the program. Thanks for the suggestion RIAA.
There are no pirates.They are not downloading songs. We are not violating their privacy or doing anything remotely illegal to try to scare them. There is no non-pirated music- it was all burned.
I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies
Did anyone else read this subject and think it was a spam?
I actually tried to find this, I downloaded American Life about 6 times and each one was the actual song.
Trust me, *those* got deleted... I think Madonna cursing into a microphone would have been much better then what I recieved.
There aught to be warning labels on this stuff...
Wiwi
"I trust in my abilities,
but I want more then they offer"