Telcos Stand Against RIAA

john82 writes "In an interesting and insightful article, NetworkWorld Fusion discusses how lawyers for SBC and Verizon are fighting the RIAA's attempts to monitor their customers. As we've heard before, RIAA wants the telcos to report when users download any copyrighted material. Lawyers for SBC and Verizon are fighting back. They also claim that the RIAA is trying to grant themselves powers that are outside of even the Patriot Act. Now where have heard that before? NWFusion also points out that RIAAs handwaving, threats, tantrums have less to do with protecting the rights of musicians, than with protecting the revenue stream created by an out-of-date distribution system." In other RIAA news, taped2thedesk writes "According to the Washington Post and Ars Technica, the RIAA will now contact P2P users before suing them." The RIAA's not so bad, they'll settle out of court over the phone, if you don't mind paying up instead of getting a lawyer.

Comments

Re:Oh please, this is only a cost thing.

[Logicdisorder]

You should look at using Soul Seek(http://www.slsknet.org/). That is what I use to find music. Granted I do not listen to fuck main stream music these days which Soul Seek is not good for but I would still say you should give it a go you. Plus the RIAA has little to no interest in soul seek at the mo cause it is quite small compaired to Kazaa. From my point of view I think Kazaa is shit, it might have alot of users on but I have found it really crap fpr looking up music and moives. EMule is what I have found to be good for TV shows and movies. DEATH TO THE RIAA

Re:Report copyrighted material?

[jweatherley]

and if its gay porn, does it get sent to c:\dev\null ?

No, it gets posted to slashdot of course!