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Inquiry Into RIAA's Piracy Crackdown Tactics
MongooseCN writes "Sen. Norm Coleman started an inquiry to check the RIAA's tactics on attacking online music swappers. He believes the RIAA's tactics may not be taking into consideration the damage they do to innocent people. It's good to know that someone remembered people in the US have Rights." As a former roadie, Senator Coleman doesn't oppose file sharing penalities, he merely wants to make sure the punishment fits the crime.
though, i support file sharing, i agree with him on the fact that the punishment fits the crime. since there is no crime, no punishment. end of story.
I write code.
The only right good ole Mericans have is the right to pay for the new Metallica.. and if they don't like it then let the fury of RIAA rain upon them!!!
oh sorry was channelling Hilary Rosen for a minute... ewww.. I feel dirty now.
"I am a kernel in the linux army"
1. Record/buy copyrights to a song which would otherwise sell a couple of thousand copies at most.
2. leak it out somehow, wait for those few thousand people to download it.
3. Sue these guys and recover $15,000 from them each.
4. Profit???
Much better than actually selling good songs, isnt it? Maybe this is why Britney & gang were promoted endlessly...:)
The Dirty Work Group
I've decided to stop swapping music files and go back to stabbing hookers.
In other news, the RIAA has cut off the hands of 75 people today in Iran for downloading Busta Rhymes songs.
In a statement issued by the RIAA in Iranian newspapers...
"It will confirm that our actions are entirely consistent with the laws as enacted by the Iranian government and interpreted by the courts". The statement continues, "Yes, we realize many of our artists publish songs that support killing policemen, and raping and beating women, but downloading copyrighted material is wrong and totally unjustified!!"
...get a file generator to generate files to the size of the files you're being accused of sharing, generating random garbage and renaming them to the files that were shared, storing them in the same directory structure. I don't know if it's been suggested before, but I really don't see how much can be done against you just for having the names and titles for some songs. You can even say you were helping the RIAA by seeding crap.
I doubt the RIAA is downloading the files to make sure they're real, and even so, it only comes down to a he said/she said.
"Me failing English? That's unpossible!"
-Ralph Wiggum
Vonal Declosion
It works. That's all that matters, right?
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
I'm not sure that's needed - I'm envisaging something like an enormous mail merge....
*clippy* You look like you're writing a subpoena. Would you like some help with that?
Especially if those voices are tens or hundreds of thousands of little green George Washingtons!
I was wondering when this would come out...
Coleman, who has two children, admitted that he's faced the issue himself as a parent.
"I've had this problem in my family," Coleman said. "I'm sure my children have used file-sharing programs."
"I have confessed to using Napster," he said, adding that he does not use any file-sharing programs anymore.
Sure, Norm. You just downloaded 'Frampton Comes Alive' and 'Thriller' from my FTP server last week....
So what, the RIAA doesn't get to take my money, just make good quality color copies of it?
" Coleman did NOT win because his opponents were horrible. Two things happened to allow him to win the election:"
He won because his opponent when votes were cast, Mondale, was terrible. He looked like they had not completely drained all the embalming fluid when they hastly pulled him out of the coffin.
I wonder if anyone had yet told him that George Mitchell was not running the Senate anymore.