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RIAA Warns Individual Swappers
Joey Patterson writes "CNET News.com reports that the RIAA has sent cease-and-desist letters to four individuals for allegedly pirating its music on P2P networks." They have yet to publicly release the names of who they have contacted, but 4 of the 5 were Verizon subscribers involved with their previous high profile case.
News at 11 - The recent trend beating of dead horses not only continues but quickens.. is there hope for rationality?
-Digital Extremist
no more individual swapping for me--it's whole truckloads of illegal immigrants from now on!
I was one of them.
-Senator Orrin Hatch
Good...
File traders are felons. There is no excuse for their behavior. We, the RIAA, propose to extend the sentence to life in prison for heavy copying, or death in extreme circumstances. If you don't, criminals will fill the streets, the music industry will be over, and (shhhh) you won't be seeing those big bucks.
Maybe they will raise the prices to fund the C&D letters..
I think they plan to save a lot of money by using bulk mail and address everything to "Resident". :-)
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Does the RIAA's computer systems still exist? I would have think they would have angered the wrong group of hackers/cracker enough times by now to have only a smoking crater where their computers used to be...
RIAA sure does everything in their power to annoy people... Windows 2003... *sigh* ;-)
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Thank goodness I never check my verizon.net e-mail address!
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Heh...at least you have $0.02 to spare. I did purchase some CDs from the major music labels...
The RIAA doesn't have that many illegal immigrants for you to steal. They only pretend to have that many so that they can tell the government how much they're losing in illegal immigrant sales. Plus, it's really hard to get a truckload of immigrants through p2p because the copy protection on illegal immigrants (DNA) is a lot more difficult to bypass than traditional forms of media.
You'll have to keep pirating songs instead.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
10,303,334mb file
What quality setting would that file've been encoded with?
Assuming that a 5 meg file at 192 kbps is 3 minutes 30 seconds long then a 10,303,334 meg file is approximately 13.75 years worth of Metalica.
That shouldn't be a crime, but the punishment.
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As my MP3 folder just passed the twenty gigs bar! Time to buy an iPod!
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The Department Of Homeland Security is pleased to inform you that the enemy of freedom known as "Octagon Most" in online terrorist circles has been eliminated.
In my defense I would like to state unequivocally that I love bush.
Patriotically,
Octagonmost
Yeah, I don't blame you. I mean, these fly by night companies like Play have only been around what, 4 or 5 years? They've only processed a couple of millions transactions through their merchant account, resulting in hundreds of thousands of happy and satisfied customers. How could you possible trust that?! No no, much better to hand over your card to a pimply faced youth in a store who can walk over to the card machine and swip it with their back to you and you're looking at rack of accessories by the counter anyway. Thats far safer, I mean you never hear of cards being swiped or details being copied down do you? Oh, and remember that when you get home you should be sure to throw away the credit card recipt without tearing it up. Its safe because no one ever goes through your rubbish looking for them.
Next week we learn how to keep yourself safe from the billions of evil baby raping pedophiles who infest the internet.
I can see it now.
ARTIST: Er...can I talk to someone about my contract?
RIAA Front Desk: How much did you make for us on your last release? ARTIST: Uh...$500,000. ish. RIAA FD: In that case, no. But I feel sorry for you, so here's a buck for your next cardboard house.
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
Xeroxing sheet music for the church choir may be illegal, but do you really think it's wrong?
Only if it's for a white church. Have you heard those people sing?
I find it inconceivable that the name of a file in a log is sufficient proof of criminal conduct. If I rename workout_log.xls to bush_assassination_plan.doc am I guilty of a criminal conspiracy to kill the President?
Yes. You are also guilty of posting the concept of renaming out files to "bush_assassination_plan.doc" on Slashdot to a large audience. You are a terrorist, and will be delt with accordingly.
(And it gets worse if you share mp3s.)
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
This would be the same RIAA that publically said less then a year ago they would NOT be targeting individual downloaders? You cannot believe a word they say, for they are a lying sack of runny shit...nothing more!