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RIAA Prepares Legal Blitz Against Filesharers
Sayonara writes "The RIAA are now well and truly gathering their forces for a financial onslaught on file sharers in the US, with a "fear and awe" campaign targetting college and high school students in particular. The strategy can be reduced to 'We should really charge you $150,000 per song you have downloaded. Pay us $50,000 now, and we'll say no more about it.' In a related article, the BBC describes how the netizen known as 'nycfashiongirl' is now attempting to delay the RIAA's case against her by claiming their investigation of her online activities was illegal. The RIAA has dismissed these arguments as 'shallow.'"
I, for one, welcome our new Record Executive Overlords.
Why dont we get SCO to join the RIAA, and anyone using Linux to swap songs, they can just nail them with a double suit.
I think its pretty 'shallow' of them to bring people to court over this issue. How do they know you don't legally own all the MP3s or movies you are downloading?...
Oh, come on, _really_.
"You can go f*ck yourselves."
Hey, shallow legal advised is suppose to be posted in Ask Slashdot only!
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
believe me, I've tried.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
Or hire the Slashdot Crack legal team.
I wonder if "IANAL, but.." arguments stands up in court..
Think about it! You could post the 'ask slashdot' on your court date, and read off the comments as they come in!
Everything seemed to be going so nice
'till the end of all beings punched right through the ice
RIAA Strategist #1: Wait! I got it! Let's put our future customers in financial ruin!
RIAA Strategist #2: Brilliant! Then they'll have more money to buy from us!
RIAA Strategist #1: What should we do about the rampant piracy in eastern europe and asia?
RIAA Strategist #2: Sorry, repeat that? I was listening to the satisfying sound of ruining everyone's lives.
I use this so called Kazaa backup software to back up all my mp3s. I just put them in my "to be backed up" directory, also called "My Shared Folder", and automagically they get backed up (sometimes quite a lot!). In fact, it is so secure, there are multiple copies, redundancy as I like call it. There's even stuff I don't remember backing up! Anyway, I don't know what all the commotion is over this peer to peer backup software, I'm SOLD (ok, it didn't cost me a thing...sshhh).
JWall: GUI client for IPTables
So for $50,000 I get unlimited downloading of all music past, present and future....
I guess that seems like a fair deal given the price of CDs.
is that's illegal for me to have a cd rack AND people in my house at the same time?
wow
Has anyone considered the possibility that NYCfashiongirl may really not want to be found out? I mean, suppose NYCfashiongirl was really Madonna or Brittany Spears, or someone else with more to lose from file sharing than they could possibly gain... ...this could be really embarassing. Especially if it was Justin Timberlake.
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Wow!
According to RIAA accounting methods, I have almost 2.5 BILLION dollars worth of music on my hard drive!
$2,434,950,000.00 to be exact.
Good thing I haven't shared them, I don't think I could scrape up that kind of coin easily.
This space available.
I don't feed donuts to my servers.
we see things not as as they are, but as we are.
-- anais nin
flush their logs...
heh heh butthead he said "flush their logs" hehehhe heh
NBC Announces Law and Order: RIAA Series "Another episode features an NYU freshman who rips several tracks from a CD he owns and burns them in a "mix CD" for his girlfriend. Country stars Brooks and Dunn help Detective Smoker, played by Lars Ulrich apprehend the copyright violator." Quality :)
For the record, I went to a Metallica concert without paying a dime. I grab free tickets from my radio station (free giveaway). During the concert, I didn't buy any CDs or t-shirts that would have give them money. Instead, I got to see Linkin Park (who I was actually trying to see), free shots of boobies, and some neat pyrotechnics...all at their expense.
After I got home, I got on LimeWire and downloaded all of Linkin Park's albums. (As much as I like their music, I will never buy one of their albums because of their stance on file-sharing, copy protection, etc.)
Zodiac Survey
Most High Schools use proxies...if the kids are running Kazaa at school and using a proxy, then it would be unethical and highly illegal to divulge their names to a non-law-enforcement-entity such as the RIAA. Anyway, an intelligent administrator would flush their logs every day.
errrmmm....downloading music at school?
Having PC's available for kids that have:
A) KaZaa loaded
B) a high speed connection
C) a CD burner
D) open P2P ports
E) the spare time during the school day to do all that
= 1 ex-principal, network administrator, and probably school board.
Completely disregarding the potential illegalities of file "sharing", misusing that many resources (including the kids classroom time) is seriously out of bounds.
Breakfast served all day!
IANAL.. but
One of our corporate lawyers, who have won many cases against the dark forces in our companies industry (telecommunications), once read a cease and desist letter that a local bank had their lawyers send me. The bank wanted to seize a domain name I owned, which they said was confusing with their business name.
His response, and obviously the proper form for lawyers, judges and juries, was "I would tell them FUCK YOU VERY MUCH".
Peacecorp was going to change that. Where his business sense would have failed him in the Merchant Marines and his poor physical condition were not up to snuff for the military, he felt Peacecorp would welcome him with open arms and take his student loan burden off his hands.
"Education equals genius. Genius is good for society. I'll show them, I'm going to buck the status quo. I'm going to make a difference, I'll show them what a poor kid from the ghetto is capable of." Dana thought to himself.
Dana had not shaven for five days, but his greasy facial hair never became very thick, even after weeks of neglect. It grew in a thin, spotty Fu Manchu pattern. Best described, his whiskers resembled soot smeared on his greasy jowels. He scratched at his armpit and pulled the tightening fabric of his pajama pants out of his groin and sighed with relief.
"Aaaah."
Dana was glad that the weekend had finally come around. His Computer Repair Fundamentals and Sociology classes were starting to really dig in. He blamed the teacher for sucking, and was utterly convinced that his superior intellect would reward him with first in his graduating class of 40. He was certain that the same outcome would happen if he got into MIT, but that would never happen. The rich bastards would never give him a fair chance on a level playing field. The MIT bastards hate nerds, just like everybody else. That was alright though, Dana already knew he was superior to most of them anyway. Their facilities were only useful to the superficial.
Dana loosened up a bit by putting some music on the 'juke. He got a free MP3 jukebox from his mother and slapped an "RIAA SUCKS" bumper sticker on the side of it. Dana was vehemently opposed to the ownership and licensing of intellectual property, especially music. Dana downloaded all his favourite Pink Floyd tracks off the internet and onto the jukebox, and this brought a small amount of joy to his empty life.
"Damn the man!" he exclaimed, raising a fist as his gut flopped out of his oil-stained ThinkGeek t-shirt.
Ice T and Fred Durst alone had practically paved the way to justified downloads of all music ever created and served up on KaZaa. And so, Dana sat in in front of his monitor listening to The Wall, waiting for a reply from Peacecorp.
His mother slipped in to his room briefly to set down a balogna and cheese sandwich in front of him while he fired up a beta version of Transgaming on his Pentium 166 with MMX.
"Mom, why don't you hate the RIAA?"
She shrugged, rolled her eyes and closed the door to his room on the way out.
"She forgot to cut off the crusts." Dana held back the tears and ate the sandwich anyway.
[montemplar] wuzzup hanz0?
A privmsg came up on his IRC client. Dana had adopted the "handle" HanzoSan after his Japanese classmate Ohta nickna