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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.
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
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".