Inquiry Into RIAA's Piracy Crackdown Tactics

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Inquiry Into RIAA's Piracy Crackdown Tactics

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 1, 2003 @12:01AM from the sanity-checks dept.

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.

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Lameness Filter encountered .. and it lost! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-01 00:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Thanks for the fish! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-01 00:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:So what now? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-01 00:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Not profit! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-01 00:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-01 00:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Isn't this the guy... by jpellino · 2003-08-01 00:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Who, after his political opponent Paul Wellstone was killed in an airplane crash, gave his first televised interview posing against a small private plane in a hangar?

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Re:Republicans by duffbeer703 · 2003-08-01 00:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Democrats in general care about issues that encourage class conflict (guns, "make the rich pay their fair share") and keep minorities voting in a block for democratic candidates (eg. block meaningful election reform).

Plus, the entertainment industry holds more influence over democratic bigshots.

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Re:So what now? by botzi · 2003-08-01 00:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

[metaphor] ...
...you're new here, aren't you?????

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Re:So what now? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-01 00:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

his UID is less than half of yours.
hi man this is cool by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-01 00:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

you know, the more i think about it, this is really pretty cool!
Re:Legal Rights by perly-king-69 · 2003-08-01 01:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Except he shot the burglar in the back, while he was climing out of a window. Shortly after he begged for his life. Self defense, my arse.

Quite. One of those cases where both sides were in the wrong. However like a scissor-paper-stone game, nutter always beats gippo in the public opinion stakes.

Martin was using an illegally owned pump action shotgun. He had already (allegedly) previously shot his brother-in-laws windows out after an argument. And then let a 16-year-old bleed to death in his garden. Far from a saint.

OTOH the burglers must have expected something if they were challenged by the homeowner. Despite what you read in the rags, you do have the legal right to defend your property, and the right to act in self defence.

OT enough?

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Minnesota by Picass0 · 2003-08-01 01:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I got the party right, the state wrong. But I still stand behind my original post.
Re:relevance? OT by AmishSlayer · 2003-08-01 01:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It means this is the only good thing this Bush monkey has done. Minnesota was taken over by republican drones from it's former "free thinking" leaders (ie Wellstone and Ventura). This is actually astonishing... this guy has done nothing worthwhile until now.
Re:Here's how to contact Norm Coleman by jea6 · 2003-08-01 01:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I think a lot of what sells as music nowadays is also "cruel and unusual".

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Norm Coleman, Hollow Man by handy_vandal · 2003-08-01 02:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

A lot of Minnesotans -- myself included -- hold Norm Coleman in utter contempt, for a variety of reasons. He may be on "our side" on this issue, but overall he's a hypocritical opportunist.

For details, see Empty victory for a hollow man: How Norm Coleman sold his soul for a Senate seat by Garrison Keillor

Excerpt:
"Norm Coleman won Minnesota because he was well-financed and well-packaged. Norm is a slick retail campaigner, the grabbiest and touchingest and feelingest politician in Minnesota history, a hugger and baby-kisser, and he's a genuine boomer candidate who reinvents himself at will. The guy is a Brooklyn boy who became a left-wing student radical at Hofstra University with hair down to his shoulders, organized antiwar marches, said vile things about Richard Nixon, etc. Then he came west, went to law school, changed his look, went to work in the attorney general's office in Minnesota. Was elected mayor of St. Paul as a moderate Democrat, then swung comfortably over to the Republican side. There was no dazzling light on the road to Damascus, no soul-searching: Norm switched parties as you'd change sport coats."

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Re:I'm sorry... power? as a voter? by DesertFalcon · 2003-08-01 03:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You spelled truly wrong in your sig.

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Re:So what now? by ta+bu+shi+da+yu · 2003-08-01 04:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Whereas you have been here, right from the very start.

Yours humbly,
Ta bu shi da yu

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