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WiFi Hotspots Elude RIAA Dragnet
mblase writes "A CNET News article discusses a problem the RIAA is having with its copyright enforcement strategy: public wireless hot spots. Normally, the RIAA notifies the ISP when a user is found to be violating their copyrights, but in this case, the ISP is powerless to do anything. Key quote: '...unless the administrator keeps detailed logs of everybody's account use - which is not required by law - she may well not know who was swapping files.' I wonder how long it will be before those detailed logs ARE required by law?"
WHat about if the RIAA takes control of all the Wifi networks and charges $19.99 for a months access. You can't download what ever you want and as much as you want in that time frame.
They can also have penalties implemented.
Say you're at a fufu coffee place and you've downloaded what you wanted. You leave and the RIAA mp3 detector discovers pirated music on your hard drive. You can then be picked up by the massive RIAA Robocop and broken into fucking pieces as a deterrent to the other users.
Who said you could take the files home? They forgot to inform you of their new DRM-Wifi model which gives you a subscription to download the files but you cannot move them more than 6 inches on the table you're using. If you chose to ignore the DRM-enhanced service and adjust your laptop then you're fucked!
You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
Doesn't the RIAA have exactly the same number of songs, artists, money in the bank, after someone makes a copy of a song? How is it theft when they never lost anything?
It is not stealing to copy.
Is copying a breach of contract or license to use a work? Yes, but breaching a contract is not morally wrong, otherwise, corporations might actually tell the truth.
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Ok, this is VERY SICK!!! But, we all know such bastards out there. And the moment some sick-fuck gets cought downloading this crap from WiFi, laws will passed to ensure liability.
Life is not for the lazy.
I don't know why some Slashdotters are complaining about the existence of this female system administrator. If it were me, I'd sure like to take her to my wireless "hotspot" and "swap" a few files. ;)
(I know, I know, I'm gonna burn karma for being such a male chauvinist! I can't help it.)
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Might makes right, and, it's against the law, are stupid.
How about this. The record company sends an attorney to deliver a subpoena to someone suspected of copying files, and that person shoots the attorney.
Really, the whole might makes right argument falls flat on its face when 20 years from now we will all be able to have our weapons of mass destruction. If RIAA busts me swapping files when I'm 75 and drooling, I'll just nuke the sons of bitches.
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