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RIAA Sues the Wrong Person

Posted by timothy on from the just-looking-for-clowns dept.

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 ;)

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  1. I heard.. by konfoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that Kazaa was a cousin of Bobo the clown, and makes paid-for appearances at kids' parties. Y'all can use that as an excuse if the MPAA sues you. But seriously... hahahahahah - I fell off my chair when I saw this one. Could the RIAA remove the proverbial thumb from their asses long enough to grab a clue?

  2. Re:That's great. by proj_2501 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    would you mind using the whole quote in your .sig?

    it's "People willing to trade essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither." (or something extremely close, it's the temporary and essential bits that make the difference)

    </pedant>

  3. Re:neophyte = Apple User? by foo(foo(foo(bar))) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess my advanced distributed database processing research is more of the pre-school level that Master of Science - since i'm developing it on Apple.

    I love when flame wars start in the artice post.

  4. Stop trolling and modding by opinion by siskbc · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) Take your flame/troll war to macslash or somewhere else more appropriate. This is completely offtopic and should be moderated as such.

    2) How is this insightful? It's Apple's ad campaign! It's not even original. If anything, it's redundant in addition to offtopic. Whether it's true is irrelevant.

    3) We really need a pair of new mods for the macheads. "+1, Said Something Nice About Apple" and "-1, Said Something Mean About Apple." Because that's what you're doing here.

    In short, we do not need this. It's bad enough on mac stories, which this is not. The editor's point was simply that Kazaa does not RUN on a mac.

    --

    -Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat

  5. Re:wow ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My impression of Canada on IP is that they fall in line behind the U.S. for fear of trade retaliation like higher tariffs. I remember a couple of laws they passed against the public's will, but not which laws they were. Anyone know the specifics?

  6. YHBT. YHL. HAND. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Better luck next time.

    Regards,

    Hank Kingsley