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Verizon to Reveal Customers in DMCA Subpoena Case
JulisJ writes "NYTimes reports that Verizon will turn over the names of online subscribers accused of swapping music. This could be a big blow to the file-swapping community, even if you're swapping legit." There's also a story on News.com. See our previous story for background.
The RIAA are also covering this. (very smugly I bet)
If they don't, it's their asses on the lines for obstruction of justice.
Do these people who are being identified know who they are?
Let's me do some extensive research for you...
(reads article)
Yes, they do:
"Ms. Deutsch said Verizon had already informed the two people whose information is the subject of its lawsuits against the recording industry group. The group has filed two additional subpoenas, and those subscribers have also been informed that their names are to be divulged."
Leave them for who?
It doesnt matter who you go to, the courts have ruled that the MPAA/RIAA (or anyone with a fax machine, for that matter) can subpeona your information.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I submitted this story earlier today, but it didn't make it. Basically, Sen. Sam Brownback from Kansas is announcing the "Consumer,Schools, and Libraries Digital Rights Management Awareness Act," which will, among other things, require that a copyright holder win a lawsuit in order to obtain the name of an alleged peer-to-peer pirate.
In the meantime, I say turn about's fair play: let's all of us accuse the RIAA of illegally distributing our copyrighted material and invade their privacy without bothering with the courts. Let's rat out every music executive out there who's downloading kiddie porn or sending naughty emails to their mistresses. Hey, if they can do it to us, why can't we do it to them?
my 2 cents...
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
i'd tend to agree with #1
even though i use Kazaa Lite i'll be sure to block anyone from getting my file list for this explicit reason
They won't be missed!
/. Euphamism-o-matic. I mean file "sharing" fanatics get no love from ISPs. The hardcore p2p users are the ones that suck up the most bandwidth of anyone - I've seen it with my own eyes, having worked for one of the largest cable ISPs in the country. That kind of bandwidth hogging is the reason for the proposed monthly bandwidth caps. Those users are a losing proposition for the ISP, and they won't be missed when they leave!
File steali... *ahem*, sorry, forgot my
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hmm, it was modded +5 funny for a good reason
maybe you could check it out?
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
effect: Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result. definition
affect: To have an influence on or effect a change in definition
you wanted affect.
You can't copyright fact. Only "Art" can be copyrighted. Unless your wallmart or some other big company then you can copyright fact like prices.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Hilary Rosen resigned. you ought to at least target someone who's still employed by the RIAA.
Stop calling it 'stealing', it is copyright infringement. Why the hell do you people have such a hard time understanding that concept?
To 'steal', you take someones tangible good/property. Now you have it, they do not - you have deprived them of their property. Not so with so-called IP. You copy it, and they still have their own copy. Now if you were take a CD, say from a store - you have 'stolen' something tangible - but you have not committed copyright infringement under the law. Curiously, the penalty for swiping a CD is leagues lower than trading a song on the internet.
People sound so stupid and uneducated when they make posts such as yours. Get your facts and definitions straight before you blurt it out.
It does not matter what you do, it's wrong.
It was a good idea, but it won't be successful until almost everyone on the net has high bandwidth connections.
Hilary Rosen resigned. you ought to at least target someone who's still employed by the RIAA.
She announced she will resign at the end of 2003. She is still employed by the RIAA.
A few high profile cases is all the RIAA needs, and one of these days they will get it. That will end my sharing.
The only way to stop this, IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THE MUSIC BUSINESS MODEL MUST CHANGE, and IF YOU BELIEVE THAT INNOVATION IS BEING SNUFFED, is to take drastic action now.
If the RIAA is citing 5% percent dip in sales, make it 50%. If you buy 10 CD's a year, buy only 5. If you buy 20 CD's a year buy only 10. Better still, if you can copy a friend's CD do so.
If you take steps now, which I am (I have gone even further and cut my CD buying 85 % to buying only 15 % of what I used to buy) then everyday will have an effect on the RIAA. A year has only 365 days, and if retail stores can move from black to red just because number of shopping days decreases by 1 or 2 - just imagine what will happen if number of shopping days falls by 200. The industry big boys, the fat, and all these extra vultures like Rosen and Sherman will be wiped out.
Can it be done. I belive it will be done. But, I just hope it doesn't take a few high profile cases of RIAA MPAA screwing people, before the non-violent Gandhi method of boycott will gain speed. If it doesn't, soon, I won't be sharing files - though neither will I buy and CD's.
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Dude... not only is that NOT a mirror of the article, but your little grafitti about Verizon is uncalled for. If anything, we should be applauding the way they are taking it in the chops for trying to PROTECT online privacy... I'm sure that someone on /. works for Verizon. What's to keep them from now just thinking, "Why the fuck are we busting our asses for these ungrateful clods?"
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