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The RIAA Hit List - A Pattern Emerges?
Desus writes "Slyck News seems to have found a pattern in just what files the RIAA is searching on to find offenders. It seems the RIAA is targeting a wide reach of music, including Hip Hop, R&B, Rap, Rock, Pop and Country songs. Artists such as Ludacris, Michael Jackson, NAS, Busta Rhymes, Keith Sweat and Musiq were very common throughout the subpoenas. They've even created a helpful chart showing exactly what artists and songs seem to get one flagged." Update: 07/31 13:12 GMT by H : Here's another source for the chart.
So the message I am getting is
'Listen to good music, and the RIAA will leave you alone'.
I don't have a problem with that.
Legal action is justified and actually desirable if it stops someone listening to 'Destiny's Child'.
I rest my case, M'lud
Humorous signatures are over-rated.
An even bigger surprise was that when I clicked it, Gnumeric started up and opened it without complaints...
I have a surprising number of those songs on my machine. Thankfully none of them are shared :)
"Upon attaching the waterblock to my penis, I began to notice that I know nothing about computers." -- JRockway
Shove CDs down my underpants.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
Reading the RIAA hit list... your ip has been logged, don't move the police are on their way.
I guess it won't be long before Jesse Jackson is accusing the RIAA of racism.
-R
chill out and we won't tell anyone about all those "take that" mp3s on your C drive
OK so I guess I'm safe with my William Shatner Sings The Blues collection, right?
----- In Your Cubicle No One Can Hear You Scream...
There's no Metallica on it!
Welley Corporation - SLM Scammers
I'm holding my breath until this is provided in ogg format.
Judging from the .xls reception here, this should work fine.
Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up.
Avril Lavigne Losing Grip (8)
Avril Lavigne Complicated (6)
Incubus Nice to Know You (6)
Marvin Gaye Lets Get It On (6)
Musiq Halfcrazy (6)
Tracy Chapman Fast Car (6)"
I'm sure it's just me, but seeing that list made me laugh. It looks like a fairly complete description of a computer-generated attempt at coming up with dialogue for a lame pick-up artist and his drunken prey who is losing her grip on reality and having a hard time focusing:
She: "Pass the Courvoisier."
He: "Nice to know you."
She: "Complicated."
He: "Fast car."
She: "Losing grip."
He: "Let's get it on."
She: "Halfcrazy."
He was a tr8der boy
RIAA hater boy
Downloaded his music off of Kazaa
He had "Complicated"
Up on his supernode
Now he gotta subpoena from Silberberg & Knupp
Ludacris, Michael Jackson, Busta Rhymes, Keith Sweat
This is obviously a plot my whitey trying to put down the black man. Fuck you cracker*!!!
*cracker refering to person of white color, not someone who breaks into systems or defeats software copy protection
I'll need a moment to download Excel from Kazaa.
I'm happy they are targeting Keith Sweat listeners. He is a menace.
100% Insightful
I grabbed a mirror before it went down
Try this link "file:///c:/My%20Music"
Odd how many of those same file I have..
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
ROFL^30
Artists such as Ludacris, Michael Jackson, NAS, Busta Rhymes, Keith Sweat and Musiq were very common throughout the subpoenas.
;P
Sounds to me like they're doing a Good Thing by cracking down on people who listen to that kind of music
John Kerry is a Joke!
And MY FRIEND has THE REST.
I bet its only a mather of time before some entrprising reader throws togheter a "Top 30 RIAA HIT HIT LIST -Music that suck" ; makes a torrent out of it and then upload it to suprnova.org or something.
Melius mori in libertate quam vivere in servitute.
Paging Dr Freud...
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
Yes, but all bets are off with Leonard Nimoy singing The Ballad of Bilbo Baggin
From the article:
After looking at 50 or so subpoenas, the suspicion of a pattern grew more confident. While an individual wouldn't necessarily get subpoenaed for just having a Busta Rhymes song, it was the combination of Busta and additional artists that triggered the bot. Slyck hopes to obtain the entire database to more conclusively examine and reveal this potential pattern.
This is exactly how the Joker killed people in Batman part 1!. If you used a combinatin of cosmetics THAT would kill you, e.g. lipstick with eye liner. I guess these hollywood guys use stuff from the scripts in real life!
I'm pretty sure most music from the 80's was destroyed by UN Security Council Order in 1993, with the words "For the sake of world peace and the advancement of culture and civilised society, this menace must be destroyed."
The only countries to defy the edict were Germany, India and Bhutan.
(I'm in a weird mood, leave me alone)
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -- Leo Tolstoy
Perl? But I only use Visual Basic, you insensitive clod!
Isn't any significantly advanced pop music indistinguishable from pr0n?
I own vinyl and cd's of Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles. Are they going to target me because I have the freakin mp3's?
I cannot believe Keith Sweat is listed. "Make It Last Forever" should be exempt because I think that album is out of print.
Mary J. Blige's "Everything" is by far not her best song.
Those ones listed under Nas? WTF? There are 10 better Nas songs then those... it is call the "Illmatic" LP.
The one they have listed for Mobb Deep is the snip-snap-snip.
Anyways, sorry for the dumb post.
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