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RIAA Extends Legal Action
shystershep writes "An article at InfoWorld tells how the RIAA 'is filing 41 new lawsuits and sending 90 lawsuit-notification letters this week, adding to the 341 lawsuits filed and 308 notification letters sent since September. The RIAA has settled with 220 file-sharers as a result of lawsuits, lawsuit-notification letters and subpoenas. In addition, 1,054 users have submitted affidavits as part of the RIAA's amnesty program.' The RIAA also claims that its tactics are actually working -- to increase awareness and reduce online piracy."
The message is now clear: Online piracy has failed!
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If their previous lawsuits are any indication we'll see them suing:
A 4 year old Eskimo girl.
A parapalegic with Tourettes.
97 year old twin sisters who still listen to their tube powered RCA radio.
A man who has been in a coma since 1972.
The Vatican.
That crazy guy outside my office who plays a harmonica.
The estate of J. Edgar Hoover.
Some T-Rex fossils in the NY Museum of Natural History.
Antarctica.
Trolling is a art,
The RIAA are coming for the children!
The RIAA has decided that the holiday season is a season of giving...subpeonas.
My postings are informational and does not constitute legal advice. Act on it at your risk.
However, the DRM server was down and I was unable to read it!
P.S. I'm a musican and I lost my hard work to illegal mp3 downloads. I sold only 400 CDs and my music was downloaded thousands of times and is all over mp3 sites. I give up....I'm $10,000 in debt and everyone is enjoying my creations.......this was my thanks. It's not the Major labels that are being killed, it's people like me. Cockroaches are the last to die.
Well, Michael, you should probably stop touching children and concentrate on your music. That's very, very, very Devilish...
-dameron
Wonder how far we are from surgical lobotomies
Lobotomy is fine. Lobotomy works. Do not download music. We love the RIAA. Lobotomy is good. Trust lobotomy. Forget music. Do not think of music. Lobotomy helps. Thank you lobotomy.
Do not put sig here. Lobotomy forbids.
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
Actually it was just one user sharing 1,054 files. For a total of 1,054 user equivalents.
include:
Semore Butts
Amanda Huggankiss
Dixon Coxs
You get the picture. I think at least half the names are bogus.
What the RIAA is the equivalent of plugging holes in a dike
/. terms..
or in
Plugging up the craters in Morpheus's face as viewed on an IMAX screen with a pixel as viewed on a 15" crt at 1600x1200 res.
I think that pretty much says it all...or...that would be fucking impossible!!
You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
Is this the RIAA's way of saying Merry Christmas?
You guys are tarded.
Actually, we were tarded once. Liked is to much we're now re-tarded. Welcome to slashdot!
Trolling is a art,
This is so awesome I am going to go out and buy 100 CDs right now. The RIAA has proven to me that their business model is both sound and just.
"Excuse me sir but I just moved into town and I am required by law to let all my neighbors know that I am a convicted music pirate"
The RIAA tactics are obviously successful. There are way fewer online pirates now than before, seems to me. I have heard people say that now they are afraid to use XNAP and share files because they know that RIAA will get them and the number of XNAP users looks like it has dropped 5 or 10 percent. It's still early in the fight but it looks like the RIAA war against P2P will be at least as successful as previous wars against other bad things like vietnam communists, illegal drugs, casino gambling, organized crime, weapons of mass destruction, prostitution, and poor church attendance. There will probably always be file sharers but they will have to at least work a little harder to get those .mp3 files that are nowhere near as good as the .wmf files anyway. I hope the RIAA is successful so that everyone will have to pay RIAA $5 each for their songs that will only run on Windows Media Player. Then we'll all have a standard format for songs owned that is owned by Microsoft and that everyone will use. Yayyyy! RIAA and Microsoft...you rock!