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RIAA Sues 261 Major P2P Offenders
circletimessquare writes "Yahoo!/Washington Post is reporting that the RIAA is suing 261 fileswappers whom they consider to be 'major offenders' in illegally trading music online. Remember to visit the EFF when full lawsuit details are released, and see if you're one of the unlucky few." Details of the amnesty program reported last week were also released, with the RIAA announcing it "...would require file sharers to admit in writing that they illegally traded music online and vow in a legally binding, notarized document, never to do it again."
The RIAA sues people?
Never!
Putting the romance back into necromancer.
What the heck do I do now????
i hear a cash register drawer opening and see an RIAA exec, with his hand out, smiling..
i saw the baby, and the baby looked at me
Well... this is going to be a fun morning for those 261 people.
*Random guy turns on computer*
You've got subpoena!
I will not ever pay for an RIAA member label music product until such a time that they end their predatory lawsuits.
Frankly, this won't be a hard promise to keep, since most mainstream music sucks.
PS - The radio is still free, and I have an TV/FM tuner/capture card.
261 Major P2P Offenders
So, is that the equivalent of 50 file swappers, downloading really fast?
Pack your suitcase for prison!
In prison lingo, "pack your suitcase" means stuffing your ass full of cigarettes and narcotics.
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Get your tinfoil hats now!
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I've downloaded gigs and gigs of stuff.
Run fast.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country carrying armloads of CDs with MP3s on them.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country carrying armloads of CDs with MP3s on them to Asia.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country carrying armloads of CDs with MP3s on them to Asia where you become a successful black market music distributor.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country carrying armloads of CDs with MP3s on them to Asia where you become a successful black market music distributor and retire to the Bahamas.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country carrying armloads of CDs with MP3s on them to Asia where you become a successful black market music distributor and retire to the Bahamas and thank the RIAA for your new life.
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
"...would require file sharers to admit in writing that they illegally traded music online and vow in a legally binding, notarized document, never to do it again."
Offenders must also confess to having been to the proletariat areas and consorted with the prostitutes, or they go to Room 101...
Yes, be jealous.
:P
There was rumours cd-r's were going to skyrocket in price as a result of that thought...however prices of cd-r's have dropped like a stone here just as they have everywhere.
So my 50 cents canadian (0.001 american dollars) is letting my have some legal file sharing
Yay for Canada! We also recently got electricity
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
Damn, they've got me!
I'm kazaaliteuser..
The process has to be served. If the plaintiff cannot give the court instructions on how to serve you with the suit, the court must throw the case out.
A good example of this is a case a few years back of somebody who filed a suit against the devil, but had it thrown out because they could not give the court the devil's address.
Pick up the soap.
KFG
So the EFF needs our donations to protect people whose intention is to steal?
Steal? I thought music was protected under copyright law.
my ip, 192.168.1.101 isn't on the list. so far...
i wonder though, is my other ip, 192.168.1.100?
They ruined your life, you have nothing to live for. Buy an uzi and get them first.
I'm one of them (anonymous)
Oh the humanity!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
What I dont understand is where all of these pirates are coming from
I havent personally saw anyone with patches over their eyes recently. Or any tall masted ships.
This leads me to believe this is all propaganda to make the average person scared to "surf".
Gibberish.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
Repeat after me: Copyright infringment != Stealing
It's only "stealing" when SCO or Microsoft does it.
2) 200 defendants in the last case blame the last "Blaster" worm and claim they had no idea their computers were sharing files.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Joanna: So you're gonna get a lot of MP3s, right?
Peter: Well, yeah.
Joanna: Music that's not yours.
Peter: Well, it becomes ours.
Joanna: Uh-huh...how is that not stealing?
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Let's get some copies of the CDs that have people reading the holy Koran that are sold on Islamic web sites.
We'll convert them to MP3s and add them (correctly labeled) to the lists of files available for downloading on thousands of P2P file sites.
Then, when the RIAA orders these sites to shut down, we'll send e-mails to the Saudi Arabian embassy complaining that the RIAA is trying to destroy the sharing of the word of the prophet.
The Saudis will put out the word to their old buddy Osama that the RIAA is now an enemy of Islam and issue a fatwa authorizing its destruction, like the mad Ahyatolla in Iran did to Salmon Rushdie. A modest reward of a few million bucks will help encourage the faithfull to answer the call. After all, what's a few million to the Saudis when the recordings of readings from the holy Koran is at stake?
The RIAA will be so busy trying to hide from a billion fanatical Moslems that they will lose interest in destroying the lives of the ordinary people who are more interested in just listening to music than killing them.
'When you have multiple enemies with great strength trying to destroy you, the best way to fight back is to get your enemies to turn against each other and ignore you. ' - Machievelli (more or less)
Let's Just Do It! We have to start doing something creative to protect ourselves from these assholes!
Piracy, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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Is the Canadian Industry Minister into industrial rock ?
Oh crap, does this mean that we have to wait for Apple and BSD to die before the music industry finally kicks it? Because that may take a looong time.
sic transit gloria mundi
Of course we know what happens to a P2P system with all leachers and no sharers...
It turns into alt.binaries.* ?
-- $G