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RIAA Sued For Amnesty Offer

Posted by simoniker on from the suing-over-not-suing dept.

wo1verin3 writes "CNET News is reporting that the RIAA is being sued because of 'Clean Slate' filesharing amnesty program that was announced on Monday. 'Clean Slate' allows people to (supposedly) avoid legal action by stepping forward and forfeiting any illegally traded songs. The suit, filed in the Marin Superior Court of California, charges that the RIAA's program is deceptive and fraudulent business practice." The suit claims that the amnesty is "designed to induce members of the general public... to incriminate themselves... while (receiving)... no legally binding release of claims", a statement the EFF also agrees with.

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  1. Links to Legal Downloads at Kuro5hin by MichaelCrawford · · Score: 5, Informative
    Now on the front page at Kuro5hin, my article Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads.

    You don't need to worry about getting sued by the Recording Industry Assocation of America or arrested by the FBI if you download legal music. Many independent and unsigned musicians offer downloads of their music in hopes of attracting more fans. Here's some music from my friends The Divine Maggees, Oliver Brown and Rick Walker's Loop.pooL.

    If everyone started downloading legal music instead of violating copyright with the file sharing programs, we would make short work of the RIAA, because people would start buying CDs directly from the artists and seeing their shows instead of enriching the major labels by buying CDs from the bands the labels have chosen for us to listen to. The RIAA would also have no cause to complain - these music downloads do not infringe copyright because the artists give you permission to download them.

    Please copy and distribute it according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs license.

    Thank you for your attention.

    --
    Request your free CD of my piano music.
    1. Re:Links to Legal Downloads at Kuro5hin by Oscar_Wilde · · Score: 5, Informative
      The article mentions the, IMO, very interesting iRate Radio project.

      To quote the kuro5hin article:
      iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3 player/downloader. The iRATE server has a large database of music. You rate the tracks and it uses your ratings and other peoples to guess what you'll like. The tracks are downloaded from Web sites which allow free downloads of their music.

      As of July 2003, the iRATE server has 46,000 tracks registered.

      There are some screenshots for you all to look at.