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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?"

7 of 1,008 comments (clear)

  1. What I'd like to see by wy1d · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is them trying to track down the hundreds and hundreds of users of "www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa"

  2. Re:The list: by Trollificus · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa"

    If I'm not mistaken, this is a default name set by one of the earlier revisions of the Kazaa Lite client. Most people I know don't bother to change this. Could it be possible that this username is in fact hundreds, or even thousands of different people?

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  3. But what if... by thaley · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you just keep a default username?

    kazaaliteuser@kazaalite.com or something else?

  4. Re:Absolute Power by u-238 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    wow thanks for your brilliant outlook on the situation mr obvious

  5. Women's Names by BryanL · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am impressed with the number of female sounding names on this list. If these really are women then it puts a new face on the perception of who file traders are. It is no longer pimply faced 16 year old boys showing anti-social behaviour. I am interested if the public will be outraged when the DMCA is used against our mothers and daughters. (I know this sounds sexist, but lets face it, society views men and women differently.)

  6. I'm not worried by teklob · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I a) Live in canada and b) Use the kazaa (fasttrack) network with a linux client that doesnt make you enter a name like monkeyluvr so they'll actually have to figure out my name to prosecute me...

  7. PR0N by zin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Glad I only post porn on Kazaa. Seriously I bet those are the heavy hitters on kazaa with gigs shared, they worst part is it's probaly the most clueless. I never share anything music related on Kazaa and luckily the porn industry doesn't have a top heavy, oppressive corporation fighting for it.

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