RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday June 9, 2003 @02:20AM from the only-ending-his-livelihood dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ABCNews is reporting on a 19-year-old college student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He created a site named ChewPlastic.com where students could search for files on the university network. Mind you, this is not a music file sharing software, this is just a search engine. Presumably, the search engine was being used to search for music files as well. The folks over at the RIAA did not take too kindly to the idea, and sued the student. He settled but denies any wrongdoing. What was settlement, you ask? His life's savings."

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Sounds good, google next? by muffen · 2003-06-09 02:25 · Score: -1, Redundant

I'm sure googles life-savings will be a bit higher, and I'm sure many people have used it for finding mp3's

I am wondering what it is the RIAA wants to accomplish?
No search-engines?
Maybe they just want to get rid of the internet, that should stop people from pirating music.

It was sad to read the article, the student really didn't do anything wrong.
RTFA? by MondoMor · 2003-06-09 02:29 · Score: -1, Redundant

Dear God, why? Then I couldn't make off-the-cuff assumptions and jump to conclusions. I'd no longer fit in with all the arrogant know-it-alls here on Slashdot!