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RIAA Not Done With Jesse Jordan
digime writes "In a recent Slashdot article it was reported that 19-year-old college student Jesse Jordan gave up his life savings to the RIAA for running a campus search engine. He has recovered over 83% of his savings lost to the RIAA, and his search engine is back up. "The RIAA started yelling and tried to rescind my order of dismissal after they signed it because of comments that I made on CNN.", Jordan says on his site. "A very well-known top lawyer at the RIAA, while making threats of further legal actions, referred to himself as a 'dentist' that I would not want to 'have another visit with'"
A Super-quick bar pony upper?
The world is an upsetting place. Even on sunday.
Pretty please with sugar on top?
What a childish non-sequiter. I'll never understand why people use that phrase. "Please" is simply a word, and can neither be "pretty" nor can it be topped with sugar.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
He is putting up his search engine again with fake results. So even if he is in the right legally, where is he going to get the money??? He thinks we're all just going to keep donating? He folded once because he didnt want to pay for an attorney. Whats he going to do if he gets sued again??
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Not childish! It was in Monkey Island, therefore it is a serious pop culture quote.
calling a spade a spade on this board is a waste of time.
this is the alternate universe known as slashdot where stealing (digital) property is not a crime.
to answer your detractors...
technically, no, he didn't rob the bank himself.
he just provided the guns, the get-away car, the combination to the vault, and the map of the exits.
"honest your honor... i had no idea those bad people would use the guns, maps, combination to the bank safe, and the get-away car i gave them to rob a bank."
except for a few, very limited exceptions, copying copyrighted material without the permission of the owner is a violation of the law. simple and plain. it is wrong.
helping people to do it, like your hero who is the subject of this thread, makes you as guilty as they are.
if you don't like the RIAA and their heavy handed tactics - don't listen to the greedy, sell-out bands that sign contracts with them.
at the end of the day, THE MUSICIANS are the source of this problem. no one else. without them there is no RIAA, there is no music industry, there is no copyrighted material to steal.
when bands quit being greedy and quit selling their music to companies who are even more greedy, all of these problems go away.
boycott the sell-out bands. don't go to their concerts, don't listen to their music, and ridicule them.
they all suck anyway.