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How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA?
An anonymous reader shot us off a link to an article discussing how to use the RIAA's System to Broadcast Music Legally. Now, I'm no lawyer, but if the facts are correct in this article, we're talking about a price point that makes streaming radio extremely inexpensive. There's a lot of worthless spite in this article, but if you can look past that, you might see something worth thinking about.
If you do the math, and they make good on their threats to sue "thousands" of P2P users, the odds of any one of the 35 million plus users of Kazaa, not to mention the dozens of other networks, being sued are on the order of one in 10,000. Think roughly the odds of being trampled by a herd of zebra above the Arctic Circle, while being hit by a meteor and lightning.
1 in 10,000 ?, thats a bit low for my liking, and now I am more worried about the zebra's than the RIAA.
From the article :
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THE RIAA is one of the most evil organizations on the planet. [.....]. If you want a good start, go to Slashdot, and do a search for RIAA.
Charlie Demerjian is obviously a junior journalist
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Or you could ya know..
Continue to pirate mp3's from P2P programs
"Continue to pirate mp3's from P2P programs :)"
;)
Um, you mean share, right?
In actuality, the entire article in an anagram.
What it really says is:
How To Quickly and Easy Get Posted on Slashdot
In a time where flattery will get you everywhere, there is no group to which this better applies than the geeks. Of course, we could have referenced other geek sites (that one with the 5 in it), but we chose not to. Geeks, who feel oppressed and underloved by society, love nothing more than to see their name in lights (or pixels) by a worthy editorial such as this. We chose to use the most whimsical of the geek-sites, Slashdot.org, and will see how quickly it works. A breakdown is as follows:
Read Entire Translation...
When modding "Informative", please make sure it both has a source and IS actually informative.
Not much sense in renting pffice space for the survivors of people who have been trampled by a herd of zebra, while being hit by a meteor and lightning.
Damn, I was hoping to hit on the grieving widows...
I've got an idea! Lets flood the P2P network with fake files that have the same names and file sizes as genuine music files that the RIAA would be looking for. OK yeah sounds stupid, but keep reading. :)
Then when the RIAA knocks on your door you can claim you were actually trying to help them by poisoning P2P networks to get the "evil" pirates.
After they falsely accuse you, get on TV/Radio/Web telling everyone about the RIAA's false accusations and after a few reports of false prosecution they'll have to stop trying to sue individuals because there will be too much doubt over them actually finding any genuine file swappers.
You wouldn't need to do this for very long either, after 5 or 6 false accusations they'd stop and you could remove your "fake" files from the network. Sure in the short term we're killing P2P ourselves, but if it stops the RIAA then I'm for it. :)
Lifted directly from the article:
You would think that more people would stand up to protect their legal rights from being trampled, but alas, we live in a world of really really dumb sheep.
Their link, not mine.
Love it.
My
Limekiller
No, he meant make offsite backups.
You zap the moderators with a wand of humor! The moderators resist!
As the guy who wrote that, the only response I have is that you obviously have no idea how sarcasm or humor works. Some of the article was meant as humor, some seriously. As someone with (almost) a biology degree, I can say that rather authoratatively that zebras do not herd, much less trample hapless filesharers above the arctic circle. Hell, they don't even do it within about 10 degrees of the arctic circle due to deforestation (again, humor).
One thing I do apologise for are the math errors scattered throughout the article. I wrote it at 4am after reading something or other that pissed me off. Due to time zone differences, I couldn't correct most of the problems before it got slashdotted. Now, it is to late. *SIGH*.
-Charlie
1.Read AHRA.
2.Set up webcast.
3.Wait 3 seconds.
4.Invite RIAA lawyers for a cup of coffee (they'll be at your door by then).
5.Tie them to a chair.
6.Play rockon.html.
7.Videotape the torture.
8.Sell video.
9.Profit.
10.Go back to bed.
The message on the other side of this sig is false.
Or if you live on the central coast in california, where around 30 miles north of Morro bay(not on most maps) you will find a herd of zebras.
My understanding is they belonged to William Hurstes' private zoo untill they escaped and started living well in our relitivly lion free enviroment
I used to have a cool sig, back when I cared
...is that he got paid to write this trainwreck of an article.
Hammer of Truth
rem lootmp3.bat
copy c:\Music\*.mpx c:\mp3\*.mp3
Oops. Call in the DMCA - we have a decryption program published here...
jer
We may be human, but we're still animals
- Steve Vai
No, no! It's cache them!
There's a lot of worthless spite in this article, but if you can look past that, you might see something worth thinking about.
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Coincidentally I've developed my "looking past worthless spite" ability significantly since the day I first pointed my browser to
Have you ever thought of becoming a commercial broadcaster yourself ?
Haven't got the time: an hour or two a day is all that it would take - automated of course.
Haven't got the bandwidth: commercially broadcast to a couple of your friends.
Pay the RIAA: naturally, be generous - round it up to a cheque for one penny per month. (do the math)
Any idea what the banks charge companies to cash cheques: in the UK it is about 40p (some 25 cents).
Any idea how much administrative time it would take to process all those cheques ?
OK: this falls down if you need to pay membership to be able to broadcast in the first place; if not this could be some fun.
As regular reader of /. for years now, I did know how crappy the search function is. In fact, I used it to get the CARP link. Now if you want shitty search engines, look at the one on the Inq, it won't even let you search the author field. I use google to find my own articles.
-Charlie (the articles author)
Actually, I wasn't paid for it.
-Charlie
1 in 10,000 ?, thats a bit low for my liking, and now I am more worried about the zebra's than the RIAA.
I have a rock in my house that's been keeping zebras away for 25 years. If you are interested, I can sell you a chunk of the rock for a very reasonable price.