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How to Tell if the RIAA Wants You
codewolf writes "Wired News has an article on how file sharers can check a new online database to see if they are wanted by the recording industry.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created a site where users can plug in their file-sharing user names. That name is checked against the list of those subpoenas filed in the Washington, D.C. district court.
The EFF also has an article on how to avoid a lawsuit from the RIAA."
Sounds like a great way to harvest usernames for future lawsuits.
-- "You can lead a yak to water, but you can't teach an old dog to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke" - Opus
I have already done it. All you do is enter your name, address, phone number, and SSN and a helpful representative from the RIAA will contact you in 30-60 days to tell you if they want to prosecute you.
So no more sharing of my Linux ISOs?
Those are copyrighted too.
Freedom Is Universal
Linux-Universe
1. Breathe on to some glass. Does the glass fog up?
2. Place your fingertips on your neck just below the corner of the jawline. Do you feel a beating often associated with a lubdub sound?
If you answer yes to either of these tests, the RIAA wants you!
Revealed! The algorithm for the online RIAA check form:
output = "";
username = ENV("uname");
if username {
output = "You are wanted by the RIAA. Please report to your local police station and turn yourself in.";
}
print "<HTML>";
print output;
print "</HTML>";
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
robandfab@millivanilli.com (Getting material for that new album)
captainjack@caribbean.pirates.org (If yer gonna be a pirate, expect to show up on such lists)
hrosen@riaa.org (oops!)
uday@saddam.iq, qusai@saddam.iq (now we know why they had to bomb that house!)
senatorhatch@senate.gov
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
If anyone else doesn't quite remember 'subpoena' being in their day-to-day vocabulary either, this might help clear things up
the true source of the word, of course, can be found by breaking it into it's two root parts.
sub, as in below, and poena, the penis. below the penis, or "by the balls".
RIAA_can_lick_my_sweaty_balls@KaZaa doesn't match. Safe for now!
"Anonymous Coward" is for whistleblowers, not unpopular opinions.
Canada's the expansion pack for America.
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Or populate it your own original warbling renditions of Britney et al.
You might have to show up in court but the comedy would be priceless and, of course, you could counter-sue the RIAA for violating your civil rights.
Parody lives.
This Like That - fun with words!
"As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives.
In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias 'kazaa-lite-tk' and are guilty of illegially downloading virtually every copyrighted file available on the internet... Over your 56k internet connection in the past 3 months."
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The Smart One: I'll take "Things you should know" for 200.
Alec: Since the beginning of time, this specific method was used to avoid being prosecuted by others.
The Smart One: What is not breaking the law?
Alec: Correct.
The Smart One: I'll take "Things you should know" for 400.
Alec: The 20th century is marked by the loss of this great leader and moral officer, which dawned an era of weak men and scared little boys who cried out for some sort of empathetic revenge due to their faces being barried in a surealistic existence, one which their brains try to forcefully merge with reality.
The Smart One: What is "Responsibility, son of Accountability"?
Alec: Correct. No.. wait.. someone is complaining, that must mean we are in the wrong. Okay, whoever said that our show is against constitutional rights, that's just not funny!
on the sixth day God created man.
on the seventh day, man returned the favor.