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3 New Defendants Named In MP3s4free.net Case
As reported in The Australian, three new respondents have been named in the mp3s4free.net link site case, including an employee of the ISP which is said to have hosted the site. The music industry says that ISP employees will be targeted in the future, but given an amnesty if they "inform the music industry."
"Do you now, or have you ever been a contributer to online music sharing? We'll let you go if you simply provide us with a list of music sharers."
How about suing the dog of the kid that live's next door to the ISP's employee's mother-in-law's sister's step-son's friend ?
I am sure he is also connected in some way or OTHER to this, no ?
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
Well then, it's now illegal to link to websites that may contain copyrighted material. Gotcha.
/. mods, editors, hosts, OSDN, etc.:
Well, here's a link to a page about a DeCSS program (no, not the one you're thinking).
Here's another that distributes freeware.
Oh, and a link to Disney just for the hell of it.
A note to
The (RI|MP)AA will not come burn your house down if you "inform them" of me this second! But the instant that you mark me as +1 Funny and click on, they're going to get you, too!
Pass this on to 15 of your friends within the next 1000000 minutes or you'll have bad luck forever and your dog will die, too!
topreacher@signature.slashdot.org 1% rm -rf sig
I bet the next step is suing people who hum copyrighted material. Then they'll sue people who heard someone humming a copyrighted song unless they nark on the guy. I think the final step will be to sue every person on Earth, dead or alive, deaf or dumb. They'll just claim DMCA.
Criminal 1: What are you in jail for?
Criminal 2: Murder. You?
Criminal 1: I worked for guy who ran an ISP who had a customer who set up a site that had some links to another web site that stored some files that may or may not have infringed copyright law.
Criminal 1: You BASTARD!
I should buy some cement.
6/4/2004
RIAA SUES ARTISTS
NEW YORK -- In a surprising twist of events, the RIAA has sued the artists themselves for producing works which are pirated. This comes fresh on the heels of the MPAA filing an injuction against 4 major films studios to halt production on movies the public does not care enough about to see in the theatre, but mind-numbing enough to want to see, leading to rampant piracy. Sources close to the RIAA expect this to be the death of popular music as we know it.
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
Reminds me of that bit on the Simpsons:
I went and took a look at mp3s4free.net and I get a page that looks awfully a lot like my home page? Funny...
:)
Tracing route to mp3s4free.net [127.0.0.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms trident [127.0.0.1]
Go figure...
Hmm, so if a site linking to illegal site is illegal itself, then logically one can conclude that a site linking to a site which links to illegal site is illegal as well. If you go up this chain far enough you'll find RIAA.org's web site at the top of the chain, I would think.
And we've finally found the missing link between RIAA and MPAA.
Lone Star, you are my nephew's janitor's wife's tailor's cousin. So, I'll sue the crap outta ya!
The long lost song is your own heartbeat.
don't forget to stop going to movies. who do you think movie makers pay to get that music in their movies?
Oh yeah, don't use any radio station that play music that is put out by a RIAA member.
Then thre are clubs, don't got to those.
And games with music, don't buy those.
Don't run windows, because Microsoft paid the rolling stones for some of there music.
and elevators, don't use those.
and stores.
don't buy goods that have music during there commercials.
man, you must not do much.
The way the members of the RIAA write there contracts, leaving the muscians as indentured servents who can not own any music they write, is the real crime going on.
I do have a hard time putting bread stealing into the same category as copying a CD one would not have purchased. the latter being copyright infringment. There is a difference. In the US copyright is the will of the people, enacted through congress.
as for the bread, yeah the poster made a stupid comparison. As someone who has had to steal bread to feed my brothers(I was 13, they were much younger, and our mother seemed to have better things to do), I can honestly say stealing made me feel far less worse then knowing my brother were going hungry.
Finally, either learn how to use the damn tabs properly, or learn to use the preview button.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
That's a rather wordy way to say, "I told you so!"
I know I'll start to implement all your instructions from now on.
You actually *read* the article? Are you nuts??? Now no one on /. will take you seriously ever again. You freak!!!
It's the golden rule. He who has the gold, makes the rules.
Thank you, Jafar.
Why just a while ago www.riaa.org was hosting illegal mp3s. Why any good citizen should have called that in immediately!
this is the most important sig ever! In your face 446154!