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The RIAA's Hit List Named
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?"
Everyone should check out PACER. It is free to register and if fairly cheap to access, and only costs $.07 a page and you will only get billed if you access over $10 worth of information. You can get access to TONS of information about US Court cases.
I never knew there was such easy accesible tools to information that the government owes us anyways. Takes about a week for them to e-mail you a password, and you are free to register as a individual citizen!
D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M.
Aab@Kazaa, boggs2@Kazaa, allstatetide@Kazaa, Amissann2@Kazaa, AngelaMikesell@Kazaa, anon39023@Kazaa, anthonybotz@Kazaa, aoster1@Kazaa, Ariel167@fileshare, asheejojo@Kazaa, Ashley@Grokster, azn_bahamut@Kazaa, B.B.C@Kazaa, badandy@Kazaa, Benchy987@Kazaa, Bigeasssy24@Kazaa, Bigpimpinitopey187@Kazaa, bigjohnhc@Kazaa, blazel@Kazaa, bluemonkey13@Kazaa, Boilermaker1214@Kazaa, brentandjonna@Kazaa, brich410@Kazaa, budman5000@Kazaa, Bush323@Kazaa, cado@Kazaa, Carolyn@fileshare, Casal@Kazaa, cbegalle@Kazaa, cherriie@Kazaa, CLOVER77@Kazaa, Corky101@Kazaa, Cortez1023@Kazaa, CowgirlMDR@Kazaa, crazyface@Kazaa, d-dubb@Grokster, dallass@Kazaa, daredevil@Kazaa, DEFAINCE357@Kazaa, definitely_ditzy@Kazaa, dimples0530@Kazaa, dmadigan@Kazaa, dotzbadger@Kazaa, dubcha@Kazaa, dulfingurl2@Kazaa, Dyellagurl22@Kazaa, Dziion@Kazaa, eddieh@Kazaa, emmi4@Kazaa, enbbarnes@Kazaa, ERIKA@Kazaa, felicia_alvarado@Kazaa, flowerpower0818@fileshare, fox3j@Kazaa, freckles72587@Kazaa, fritzbuilding@Kazaa, Generalby@Kazaa, Ghettobootybabe8@Kazaa, h2ochamp@kazaa, harris@Kazaa, heather_thee_amazing@Kazaa, hoami316@Kazaa, hooterzzz@Kazaa, hottdude0587@Kazaa, , HyDang@Kazaa, ilovemydez@Kazaa, indepunk74@Kazaa, inthisroom@Kazaa, jamonie@Kazaa, JE_WV@Kazaa, Jeff@Kazaa, Jessica@Kazaa, jim@Kazaa, joanjett@Kazaa, joe@Kazaa, jomada@Kazaa, JustineRiot@Kazaa, kelney12@Kazaa, kenne007@Kazaa, KrAyZiE@Kazaa, ktgurl13@Grokster, kunstrukter@Kazaa, ladypimp8669@Kazaa, laurelbean@Kazaa, leahpate@Kazaa, LiLHuNnIe1480@Kazaa, Lisweet@Kazaa, Lyssy348@Kazaa, madkirk@fileshare, Marge4131@Kazaa, Marla262@Kazaa, mgokey@Kazaa, mike@Kazaa, Motivator@Kazaa, munkeyspanker21@Kazaa, nikki@Kazaa, Niltiak@Kazaa, Nodopefor2@Kazaa, paulina@Kazaa, pdia@Kazaa, PDJ1846@Kazaa, Playgirlmama@Kazaa, Prtythug23@Kazaa, qjade512@Kazaa, rebecca_m_122@Kazaa, rips42@Kazaa, rochelle@Kazaa, RockOn182@Kazaa, samlionofzino@Kazaa, shakobe@Kazaa, shonga84@Kazaa, sk8boyben@Kazaa, sneil@Kazaa, soccerdog@Kazaa, StolenSi@Kazaa, sus@Kazaa, Sweet3114@Kazaa, sweetthang1421@Kazaa ,TheLastReal7@Kazaa, TMONEYNDHIZOUSE@kazaa, Tyler@Kazaa, Unit984@Kazaa, Westly_NoGood@Kazaa, www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa
"Oh, you hate your job? There's a support group for that, it's called everyone, they meet at the bar."
What the article omitted was the IP addresses, and times, that the offenses occurred. Even disregarding the name, a lot of 'seemingly anonymous' users can be tracked down with an IP address and time.
They don't have to track down the hundreds. They also have IP addresses and ISP identifications for all the users, according to the article. So though the Kazaa ID is generic, they have (or claim to have) specific information to identify the person using that generic ID.
Start a happiness pandemic
1) Boycott the RIAA - Since they've cranked up their customer attacks, Ive stopped buying their product (6 months and counting).
2) Shop via used cd's if you must. It will help show their loss in the upcomming year (used sales are Not tracked). Ebay/Amazon/Local stores/Whatever.
Vote with your wallets people! Stop being hypocritical and buying their stuff while complaining how they stink!!
How good of a defense is it if I say that I deny downloading copyrighted songs if I have an wireless AP?
and if I keep my music stored on an external harddrive, I really dont see how they can prove that I dowloaded anything illegal
the bbc seems not to think so...
Will I be sued for music-swapping?
For those that don't know, variations on that name are the default usernames in Kazaa Lite. Let's see the RIAA sue them all...
"Upon attaching the waterblock to my penis, I began to notice that I know nothing about computers." -- JRockway
Wrong -- one Grokster and several fileshare's...
...we are from the government - we are here to help...
Copyright theft, obviously, would be if I actually stole your copyright. By forging legal transfer documents or some such. You may not know that this is the exact stunt the RIAA tried to pull en masse a few years ago with their 'work for hire' add-on to a congressional bill. IIRC, it would have made the music produced by bands under contract with RIAA members works bought and paid for by the company. The musicians themsevles would have had nothing. That is copyright theft.
Dyolf Knip
Download this handy list of network ranges that the MPAA/RIAA use.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
Not quite. 117 of 124 do. Here are the other 7 of them that don't:
- Ariel167@fileshare
- Ashley@Grokster
- Carolyn@fileshare
- d-dubb@Grokster
- flowerpower0818@fileshare
- ktgurl13@Grokster
- madkirk@fileshare
grep(1) is your friend.A full subpoena may be examined courtesy of Cryptome:
...etc
http://cryptome.org/riaa-hit.htm
Or, for the lazy:
This is one of several hundred similar subpoenas issued by RIAA recently under the DMCA. Most have been filed in US District Court in the District of Columbia.
US District Court in the District of Columbia
1:03-mc-00273-UNA
Unassigned, presiding
Date filed: 07/02/2003 Date of last filing: 07/02/2003
Entered 07/17/03
LAW OFFICES
MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
A PARTNERSHIP INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS
TRIDENT CENTER
11377 WEST OLYMPIC BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90064-1683
(310) 312-2000
FAX: (310) 312-3100
June 30, 2003
Sir or Madam
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.
3 Executive Campus
Cherry Hill. NJ 08002
Re: Notice of Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3))
Dear Sir or Madam:
We are counsel to the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. ("RIAA") and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whose member companies create, manufacture, and/or distribute approximately ninety percent (90%) of all legitimate sound recordings sold and distributed in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we submit that we are authorized to act on behalf of the R1AA and its member companies in matters involving the online infringement of their copyrighted sound recordings.
A user, customer, or subscriber of your system or network, identified by the IP address, date, and time on the attached document, is offering tbr download over the Internet files containing copyrighted sound recordings owned by RIAA member companies. The attached document also includes a representative list of the recordings the identified user is offering for download. We have a good faith belief that such activities are not authorized by the copyright owners, their agents, or the law, and assert that the intbrmation in this Notice of Copyright Infringement is accurate, based on the data available to us.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Should you have any questions, please contact me at (310) 312-3297 or at dmca@msk.com.
[Signature]
Yvette Molinaro
for
MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
24.61.155.10 on 6/26/2003 at 11:49:00 p.m.(EDT)
The user at the above-identified IP address, using the screen name Tyler@KaZaA, has offered for download through the online media distribution system known as KaZaA copyrighted sound recordings owned by RIAA member record companies, including the following representative recordings:
Michelle Branch - All You Wanted
Avril Lavigne - Complicated
Radiohead - Just
Incubus - Nice to Know You
Busta Rhymes - Pass the Courvoisier
Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun
Incubus - Stellar
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
A PERFECT CIRCLE - Three Libras
On TechTV tonight, they showed some interesting information from the company that collects the information for the RIAA. It showed that they do not only go after Kazaa, but other networks as well, and you saw harvested IP addresses from Gnutella, eDonkey and other networks as well.
The reason why the Kazaa users were LISTED is that you can reverse look up their "screen names" more easily, and that's more interesting to publish for TechTV than a list of IP addresses.
Regards,
--
*Art
you underestimate the power of words to ignorant people
phrasing is everything
thats why people get paid big bucks to devise headlines commercials etc.
Wired has an article actually about an RIAA equivalent in Spain that is planning to try to go after users in Spain.
Spanish Firms Target File Traders
bbh
Are others receiving these as well? I realize in matters of tracing criminal acts (such as kiddie pr0n, molesters stalking in chat rooms, etc) I would hope ISPs would release names, but in cases of music/movie piracy (and any other crime that doesn't have a *real* victim) I would hope the ISPs would push back on the P2P networks.
Am I the only one that sees a difference between a police agency with a warrant in hand asking who's who and the damn 'copyright holder'? Shouldn't there be a burden of proof before my privacy is violated?
Come on, just because the RIAA sucks doesn't make copyright infringement ok and "victimless". Just pay the artists, or don't use their work. Don't have it both ways.
No one has a legal leg to stand on.
Many don't have an ethical leg to stand on.
And many don't have a moral leg to stand on.
I refuse to defend the actions of those who pirate for any reason. There is no legal, ethical, or moral reason why piracy should be legal.
They broke the law and now they're facing the penalty of those laws.
That post of yours is a huge disgrace to the original author who spoke of people who were slaughtered simply because they believed in a different God than someone else.
It's disgusting.
Ben
Work Safe Porn
Check out this site and skip down to 1993.
1993: Playboy Enterprises Inc. v. Frena
The Florida Northern District Court held that Frena, an electronic bulletin board operator, had violated Playboy's copyright when one of their photographs was digitized and placed on the bulletin board system by one subscriber and downloaded by another subscriber. According to the decision, "it does not matter that Defendant Frena may have been unaware of the copyright infringement. Intent to infringe is not needed to find copyright infringement. Intent or knowledge is not an element of infringement, and thus even an innocent infringer is liable for infringement; rather innocence is significant to a trial court when it fixes statutory damages, which is a remedy equitable in nature."
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Of course the reason why the RIAA is being out front and public and is making itself hated is to take the heat off the major labels.
A record industry music boycott sticks the heat right where it belongs.
To destroy them, just do all your music spending on independent artists and tell everyone else you know to do the same.
Most people don't appreciate just how fragile the position of the major labels is. They're all losing money, and so far, the music label CEOs have not only gotten away with using PIRACY!!! as an excuse with Congress, but with the multinationals that own them..
Simply refusing to buy music plays into their hands, they'll say "People refuse to buy our products because THEY'RE ALL STEALING THEM VIA P2P AND WE NEED NEW LAWS TO PROTECT US!!!"
Buying from independents will send exactly the right message both to Congress and to the companies that own the major labels.
Enough of us do this and the companies that own the major labels will be forced to dump them... lest their own stock prices follow their record companies value straight into the toilet.
Just a few percentage points of major record company sales transferred into the profit margins of independent artists and the war will be over, settled over the smoking corpses of the Big 5.
This should only take getting 1M people on board.
And the person who observes the RIAA boycott as I advise will get chances to find a lot of good new music of whatever kind you like that hasn't been dumbed down for the faceless masses RIAA product is aimed at.
Tech Public Policy stuff
How is that not right? Filesharing is illegal and people have been warned.
There are lots of laws that may seem wrong to some people - laws about haschish seem wrong to me, but I 'm willing to take the risk. If I ever get nailed by the cops about smoking outside, I certainly won't whine it's not right.
As you say the only thing that can be done against this can be done by artists themselves. If lots of them seem to disagree with RIAA's methods they won't be able to continue as they do. Users can't.
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According to their web site (http://www.riaa.com/about/members/default.asp), they have listed 992 members, including:
EMI Classics
EMI Gospel Music
EMI Latin
EMI Records
Sega
Sony Classical
Sony Discos
Sony Japan
Sony Labels
Sony Music
Sony Music US (Latin)
Sony Wonder
Virgin Blackground
Virgin Classics
Virgin Latino
Virgin Nashville
Virgin Records
Virgin Underground
Walt Disney Records
Warner Bros. Christian
Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Latina
amongst (obviously!) others.
First and foremost, those records are money to the ISP's. It's their record of usage and backs their claim for services should a subscriber dispute any charges.
Secondly, destroying those records would be tanamount to what Enron did... they knew they were being pursued and destroyed records anyway. There are differences, to be sure, but once an entity is made aware of any kind of investigative action they are held to the position all records become part of the investigation. With the very broad press in regards to the RIAA issues, it would not be a good idea for any ISP to destroy any records. Playing pattycake with the RIAA is one thing, but having your ass hauled into Federal Court for obstruction charges is another thing altogether.
Next point is an article stating AP had culled the supoena records and managed to ID some of the people, contacting them ahead of time to explain the situation. Apparently even the RIAA didn't know they could find user information without the assistance of the ISP.
And having grep'd way too damned many router logs to verify connectivity and usernames, I want to know how AP did it with just the IP address and subpoena info. Any ideas?
There is a default username assigned when you install the thing and 50% of the users don't care, so it seems to be okay when 2 million users are "kazaalite.tk@kazaa" simultaneously..
This sounds good to me.... folks... do it.. and pass it on to as many people as you can, get those cut n pasting fingers working and lets hit every discussion board and e-mail bussy we know of A