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The RIAA's Hit List Named

Posted by simoniker on from the you-and-you-and-you-and-you dept.

Carpoolio writes "TechTV is the first I've seen to name names in the fight between the RIAA and music downloaders. Using an online court records search service, they've found a number of the subpoenas served by the RIAA to ISPs, which will ultimately end in lawsuits for the people named on this list. Right now, they've published a number of the P2P user names filed with the US District Court in Washington, DC, mainly Kazaa users. Are you on the list?"

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  1. Re:Always referred to as theft by Frac · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    [sarcasm] and it's cracker, not hacker! jeez! get it right people! [/sarcasm]

    seriously, who cares if it's called theft or copyright infringement? everyone knows they're talking about to copyright infringement when theft is mentioned in the context of file-sharing.

    now that the RIAA is finally going after the people that actually share the copyrighted files (and not the ISPs), no one has an excuse to bitch anymore, so everyone jumps on this whole "copyright infringement is not theft" nit-picking.

    If you're french, I'd bet you'd be one of those whining to make everyone use "courriel" instead of "e-mail". Oui?

  2. Re:possible action vs actual action by PiousPeter · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Actually, in civil lawsuits the burden of proof lies with the defense, not the prosecution. You would have to prove that no one ever downloaded a song from you. You might also have to prove that you actively made sure no one downloaded any songs from you by killing their connection when they tried. Otherwise you would be guilty of redistribution by you intent. Just the fact that you lucked out and no one downloaded it does not make you innocent.

    An analogy would be you can't rebroadcats a copywrighted movie. If you broadcast it on an obscure channel, you are guilty of violating the copywright weather or not anyone found your channel and watched it.

    You would hope though that the RIAA downloaded and verified the files. If they didn't, I might just install Kazza (never used it) and make a bunch of 0k [artist]-[title].mp3 files in the share directory just to laugh when they send me a supena

  3. Re:Downloading or sharing? by SoSueMe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you don't share, I will ban YOU!!!!