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RIAA Sues the Wrong Person
Cildar writes "In the 'oops' category, the RIAA was forced to withdraw its suit against a 66 year old computer neophyte (read Apple User for god's sake) when they discovered she thought 'Kazaa' was a magician playing at local kids' birthday parties. The story is as reported in the Boston Globe." Update: 09/24 15:19 GMT by T : Note, the magician crack is a joke ;)
Serves them right, those RIAA bastards. They weren't counting on our secret weapon - the clueless user!
I think that's the excuse I will use, too.
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"Vengeance is fine," sayeth the Lord.
Anyone know how much this magician charges for childrens parties...?
And does anyone know where I can download David Blaine, the popular P2P filesharing program?
I have no sig yet I must scream.
Traditional Unixes are powerful, but difficult for the novice.
OTOH, Windows is so ugly, cluttered, and confusing, it is difficult for anyone to use.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
obviously Kazaa waved his(?) wand and disapeared...
"Oops sorry, the DHCP must have reassigned that address,we THOUGHT it was the one you wanted...Sorry."
This would let their customers still enjoy what they initially signed up for (filesharing, you've seen the adds, etc.)
..........FULL STOP.
I'm glad we have mensa members here to say smart stuff like that.
So ummm, do you know any cool things about farts?
"I only use a Mac.."
Up yours, RIAA!
there's no place like ~
First the 12 year old and now this. I wonder what the third strike will be? Perhaps someone inside the RIAA? That'll be a PR disater.
Hey Granny, you dont need to post as AC. The \. Crowd will protect thee.
I knew it! Virtual Pc - Mac - Kazaa..
If somebody patented p2p technology (probably already through some obscure definitions) I bet RIAA would sue the p2p patentee holders as well.. and request to take over the p2p patent.. Oh sh*t, imagine if RIAA owns the patent for P2P! (omg the sky is falling!)
// instant - "I for one welcome our new Decaff Coffee-Flavoured-Coffee Overlords"
I think everyone who gets subpoenaed should say "Kazaa? You mean that Shaq movie? Man, that one stunk worse than Steel."
The RIAA will think anyone who saw the Shaq movies is too crazy to sue.
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slashdot is like the movie rental shop where I went.
First I went there and rent a lot of "good" movies. After 3 or 4 weeks, I just stopped, because there was nothing new around. I went there 2 months later and the same moveis were around just with 2 or 3 additions.
Slashdot latelly has become:
1 - oh god, another MS vulnerabilty.
2 - SCO Stories
3 - RIAA did this, RIAA did that.
Isn't this supposed to be NEWs for the nerds ? not OLDs for the nerds...
because this wonderfull piece of information can be resumed to:
Someone accused someguy of doing something and latter they found out they were wrong. Is that topnotch story to you ?
ok... you can continue to read the "in Soviet Union RIAA owns you" (always modded funny) and "this seems like the SCO case" comments..
In 3 years, Microsoft's business model will switch exclusively to the SCO business model.
Since they won't be able to sell their product because it takes them too long to develop them and the quality is barely acceptable in most cases, they'll just start sueing any company that did any work based on MS technologies (Novell/Ximian), any company that cloned the looks of windows (Lindows/Lycoris/Xandros), but also any user who ever used any pirated copy of any MS software (about 80% of the planet).
As you can see, we shouldn't be too worried about the future of Microsoft as a business entity.
The Great Kazaa is a master magician -- he made the reference in the story disappear. His IPA is usually 127.0.0.1, tricky eh?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Images of grannie putting on her bling bling and listening to gangsta rap are dancing in my head. Thanks for the laugh RIAA! Could we nominate them for the Darwin awards for shooting themselves in the foot...repeatedly?
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."- Steven Wright
Ok, repeat after me:
Please don't squeeze the Sharman!!
That's when my good pals Hancock, Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson, along with a few other buds, got together and came up with this whole fair trial system.
ObSpicoli: "So, what this Jefferson dude was saying was, we left this England place because it was bogus, but if we don't get some cool rules, pronto, we'll just be bogus too. Yea?"
People's desire to believe they are right is much stronger than their desire to be right.
The greatest trick Kazaa ever pulled is convincing the world he doesn't exist.
"If any of those [IP address] numbers are wrong or transposed, you're going to get the wrong person,"
In that case, I hope they mess up the next IP address and get 127.0.0.1. That would make for an interesting day.
Since when has it been different ;)
We _have_ diversified though. It used to be only MS that we'd bitch about constantly.
Please provide an English translation. Thanks.
"I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Kazaa Soze"
The /. whats? We have editors now? When did that happen?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Sounds like both SCO and the RIAA have the same lawyers.
This is a test. This is a test of the emergency sig system. This has been only a test.
I'll see your alternative OS wager and raise you my giFT FastTrack plugin....
:-)
magician crack?
Where do I get that? Never heard of it... =P
Funny you should mention that. You bet your ass that the RIAA has every sharing program there is IN THE WORLD, in order to do "research". I wonder what band the service techies use for their test searches. Metallica, anyone?
The Mini Repository - more links
... the recording industry requested information about the wrong IP address, which is usually more than nine digits.
backslashdot.org seems to have a search engine powered by verisign... weird...
a kid with a laptop was sighted nearby and appeared to be eating pringles.
his IP address was 192.168.1.101 so it couldn't have been him right?
Maybe the RIAA will go after THAT IP next....
Plus she probably got so upset by the lawsuit that she spilled hot coffee on her lap...
Hmmmm...I do sense a litigation opportunity after all.
... let this woman sue the living shit outta RIAA. Amen.