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Small Webcasters Sue RIAA

killthiskid writes "The Webcaster Alliance, a small group of 198 webcasters has sued the RIAA. CNET has the news, along with a growing number of other sites (google news). As many /.'ers know, in 2002 the Library of Congress decided on .07 cents per song (retroactive to '98). After that another bill was passed to protect smaller webcasters. Aparently, many webcasters are still not happy." Their complaint is online.

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  1. yup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i like it

    dupe, btw.

  2. I sue you !! by SpanishInquisition · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sucker!

    --
    Je t'aime Stéphanie
    1. Re:I sue you !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      > I sue you!!

      Let me be the first to welcome you to normal society!

  3. RIAA: The 3vil ... by Chromodromic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... it's too much.

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    Chr0m0Dr0m!C
  4. morons dispute saftIE in numbness theorIE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lack of ability/positive intention is very dangerous to US.

    soon, there'll be music on/in the air at all times. providing, of course, that unprecedented evile continues to be intervened upon.

    fuddles.con is running linux now. no DOWt about that.

    fauxking phonIE payper liesense stock markup FraUD execrable that they remain.

    that's right, after the walking dead finish exterminating themselves, & sadly enough, some of us, it won't take long to clean up this cesspool of greed/fear execrable.

    we're calling it the planet/population rescue program (formerly unknown as the oil for babies initiatve).

    the Godless wons are helping by continuing to show where their hearts lie.

    what's wrong with folks selling their kode? if it causes convenience, & interoperates with all the other kode on the planet, we say, no harm, no foul, so long as you fail to employ gangsterious/felonious practices to asphyxiate the 'competition'. sabotaging your free version of anything is a tad dastardly. if there's value added, without FUDging up the compatability, we'll pay. same with music. no more gouging dough though.

    fortunately, mr stallman et AL, etcetera, is now offering comparable/superior software, to the payper liesense spy/bug wear feechurned models, in almost every circumstance. there'll be few, if any more softwar billyonerrors, as if there's a need for even won. tell 'em robbIE. you are won of the last wons whois soul DOWt, right? .asp for va lairIE's whoreabull pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise?, used against the truth/to protect robbIE's payper liesense stock markup bosses/corepirate nazi 'sponsors'. yuk.

    back on task.

    what might happen to US if unprecedented evile/the felonious georgewellian southern baptist freemason fuddite rain of error, fails to be intervened on?

    you already know that too. stop pretending. it doesn't help/makes things worse.

    they could burn up the the main processor. that would be the rapidly heating planet/population, in case you're still pretending not to notice.

    of course, having to badtoll va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise, robbIE's ego, the walking dead, etc..., doesn't slow us down a bit.

    that's right. those foulcurrs best get ready to see the light. the WANing daze of the phonIE greed/fear/ego based, thieving/murdering payper liesense hostage taking stock markup FraUD georgewellian fuddite execrable are #ed. talk about a wormIE cesspool of deception? eradicating yOUR domestic corepirate nazi terrorist/gangsters will be the new national pastime.

    communications will improve, using whatever power sources are available.

    you gnu/software folks are to be commended. we'd be nearly doomed by now (instead, we're opening yet another isp service) without y'all. the check's in the mail again.

    meanwhile... for those yet to see the light.

    don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.

    nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. lots of good folks/innocents are being killed/mutilated daily by the walking dead. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. you already know that.

    the posterboys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then, after stealing/spending/disappearing the real dough, pretend that nothing ever happened. sound familiar robbIE? these fauxking corepirate nazi larcens, want us to pretend along with them, whilst they continue to squander yOUR "investmeNTs", on their soul DOWt craving for excess/ego gratification. yuk

    no matter their ceaseless efforts to block the truth from you, the tasks (planet/population rescue) will be completed.

    the lights are coming up now.

    you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash

    1. Re:morons dispute saftIE in numbness theorIE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You should register for an account at SomethingAwful. Your debate skills would be highly regarded there.

  5. Michael by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OK, what's your problem with Speakeasy since you're making the front page of Slashdot your personal complaint forum.

    1. Re:Michael by davmct · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Michael needs to get fired, sealed in a room with Seth Finkelstein, and let both of them vent out their homo-neurotic difference of opinion on what 'freedom' is. Posts by Michael are getting a little tiring, and being an employee of OSDN, his opinion IS representing the company, which COULD have legal repercussions (perhaps slander? IANAL). It'd be nice if the editors would let the userbase submit the comments, and leave their own off of the front page. If they feels so concerned about something, become a subscriber and post it to the story like the rest of us.

  6. GNAA & DeCSS SOURCE CODE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    <INSERT GNAA SOURCE CODE HERE>. And I really think these stupid warnings are retarded. Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 33.3).Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 33.3).Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 33.3). This is so stupid. You are not logged in. You can log in now using the convenient form below, orYou are not logged in. You can log in now using the convenient form below, orYou are not logged in. You can log in now using the convenient form below, or.... Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 39.5).

    void CSSdescramble(unsigned char *sec,unsigned char *key)
    {
    unsigned int t1,t2,t3,t4,t5,t6;
    unsigned char *end=sec+0x800;

    t1=key[0]^sec[0x54]|0x100;
    t2=key[1]^sec[0x55];
    t3=(*((unsigned int *)(key+2)))^(*((unsigned int *)(sec+0x56)));
    t4=t3&7;
    t3=t3*2+8-t4;
    sec+=0x80;
    t5=0;
    while(sec!=end)
    {
    t4=CSStab2[t2]^CSStab3[t1];
    t2=t1>>1;
    t1=((t1&1)<<8)^t4;
    t4=CSStab5[t4];
    t6=(((((((t3>>3)^t3)>>1)^t3)>>8)^t3)>>5)&0xff;
    &n bsp; t3=(t3<<8)|t6;
    t6=CSStab4[t6];
    t5+=t6+t4;
    *sec++=CSStab1[*sec]^(t5&0xff);
    t5>>=8;
    }
    }

    void CSStitlekey1(unsigned char *key,unsigned char *im)
    {
    unsigned int t1,t2,t3,t4,t5,t6;
    unsigned char k[5];
    int i;

    t1=im[0]|0x100;
    t2=im[1];
    t3=*((unsigned int *)(im+2));
    t4=t3&7;
    t3=t3*2+8-t4;
    t5=0;
    for(i=0;i<5;i++)
    {
    t4=CSStab2[t2]^CSStab3[t1];
    t2=t1>>1;
    t1=((t1&1)<<8)^t4;
    t4=CSStab4[t4];
    t6=(((((((t3>>3)^t3)>>1)^t3)>>8)^t3)>>5)&0xff;
    &n bsp; t3=(t3<<8)|t6;
    t6=CSStab4[t6];
    t5+=t6+t4;
    k[i]=t5&0xff;
    t5>>=8;
    }
    for(i=9;i>=0;i--)
    key[CSStab0[i+1]]=k[CSStab0[i+1]]^CSStab1[key[CSSt ab0[i+1]]]^key[CSStab0[i]];
    }

    void CSStitlekey2(unsigned char *key,unsigned char *im)
    {
    unsigned int t1,t2,t3,t4,t5,t6;
    unsigned char k[5];
    int i;

    t1=im[0]|0x100;
    t2=im[1];
    t3=*((unsigned int *)(im+2));
    t4=t3&7;
    t3=t3*2+8-t4;
    t5=0;
    for(i=0;i<5;i++)
    {
    t4=CSStab2[t2]^CSStab3[t1];
    t2=t1>>1;
    t1=((t1&1)<<8)^t4;
    t4=CSStab4[t4];
    t6=(((((((t3>>3)^t3)>>1)^t3)>>8)^t3)>>5)&0xff;
    &n bsp; t3=(t3<<8)|t6;
    t6=CSStab5[t6];
    t5+=t6+t4;
    k[i]=t5&0xff;
    t5>>=8;
    }
    for(i=9;i>=0;i--)
    key[CSStab0[i+1]]=k[CSStab0[i+1]]^CSStab1[key[CSSt ab0[i+1]]]^key[CSStab0[i]];
    }

    void CSSdecrypttitlekey(unsigned char *tkey,unsigned char *dkey)
    {
    int i;
    unsigned char im1[6];
    unsigned char im2[6]={0x51,0x67,0x67,0xc5,0xe0,0x00};

    for(i=0;i<6;i++)
    im1[i]=dkey[i];

    CSStitlekey1(im1,im2);
    CSStitlekey2(tkey,im1);
    }

  7. Mods by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is NOT offtopic since I'm only responding to the editor's comments on THIS STORY. Of course, it could be Michael moderating me down.

  8. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh c'mon... it was funny.