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RIAA Prepares Legal Blitz Against Filesharers

Posted by timothy on from the shock-and-awe dept.

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.'"

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  1. RIAA and SCO by suedehed · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:RIAA and SCO by BrynM · · Score: 5, Funny

      That would just lead to the RIAA claiming that Linux is theirs and SCO claiming that music is theirs. Then again, if there's a way to get them to fight eachother...

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    2. Re:RIAA and SCO by rearden · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, what would be great is if we could convince RIAA that SCO has an immense collection of copyprotected MP3's. Then we need to convice SCO that RIAA is running hundreds of Linux servers to search for violaters.

      Then stand back and let them sue eachother into oblivion.... ahhh we can dream!

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  2. "go fuck yourselves" doesn't hold up in court by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 5, Funny

    believe me, I've tried.

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  3. Go after the real source of profit-loss by Supero100 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Kazaa Backup Software by TheZax · · Score: 5, Funny

    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).

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  5. 50,000$ by Sophrosyne · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Just for musing... by MickLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. I'M RICH! I'M RICH!! by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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