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RIAA Files 532 Lawsuits
Like2Byte writes "The RIAA is at it again. This time, Yahoo! News is reporting that 532 file sharers' IP addresses are being submitted to the courts instead of their names because ISPs decline to name people and the courts previous blocks. Music lawyers filed the newest cases against 'John Doe' defendants -- identified only by their numeric Internet protocol addresses -- and expected to work through the courts to learn their names and where they live."
Hell just file against 192.168.0.0-255 and get it over with.
Then work on 172.16.#.#
You know they wanna.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. -Fight Club
identified only by their numeric Internet protocol addresses
TK-421! Why aren't you at your post?
"I only speak the truth"
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the newest cases against 'John Doe' defendants -- identified only by their numeric Internet protocol addresses
Your honor, my client, 216.250.128.12, is innocent. He was coerced to download those files by RIAA's public enemy number 1 - 127.0.0.1. There is also plenty of evidence to implicate his cronies, 192.168.1.1 and 10.0.1.0 as well.
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He shared over 5000 songs!
Will everyone with an IP of 192.168.*.* please proceed to your local RIAA internment camp for processing please.
Go get em boys....
"I am a kernel in the linux army"
192.168.0.0 to 192.168.0.255 is apparently missing ;-)
That could be a scene in futurama. Especially if IPv6 was used:
"Your honor, we would like to file charges against 04ef:4326:33d6:13a9......"
Why can't they use multicast for distributing lawsuits? A lot more efficient than hitting hundreds of individual IP numbers with their affidavits!
I am 192.168.0.23, and I have a transcript of my network log to prove it. But as we are a DHCP shop, I am not always 23. Sometimes I am 17. Other times I am 9. I have even been 2 once. But never 200.256.49.3. That would be the gateway and nobody uses it. Locked down in the server room. No access. Verbotten. Very verbotten.
man sort
-- Bander
What we need more of is science!
Damnit! I'm right there in the middle!!! Can't you see it? Umm.. i will be going into hiding. :) Perhaps we can sue 146.82.174.12 for defamation...?
not that people dont always tell the truth on slashdot. i mean i work for a VERY well known fortune 500 company and before i go home to my supermodel wife and sail round the world in my airship, i would like to know if im really being sued by the riaa or not.
I am not a number, I am a free man!
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
These are not the IP Addresses you are looking for. Move along.
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
When I made my annual trip to the movies earlier this month (to see ROTK), they showed the same commercial. When it got to the "no copying" punchline, it was booed by the audience.
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Oh crap. I'm in their twice. I knew I shouldn't have used two network cards in my computer. Now I'll have to defend myself from two lawsuits.
My question is when will the RIAA start running out of money to do this sort of thing
You know the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "Terminator." It's like that;
Listen! And understand! That RIAA is out there. It can't be bargained with! It can't be reasoned with! It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are sued!
All I can say is "May the Schwarz be with you."
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Music lawyers filed the newest cases against 'John Doe' defendants -- identified only by their numeric Internet protocol addresses -- and expected to work through the courts to learn their names and where they live.
This type of "I-dunno-but-U-figure-out-Urself-,-judge-!" tactics is already copyrighted by Darl. RIAA will receive a nice letter from ScO concerning potential lawsuit for infringement of their IP in a few days, probably before they lose one of their "I-dunno" cases this Friday. Maybe we should establish RIAA/SCO Survival Funds so we won't lose two of the most entertaining litigation clowns.
Go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/
and find out.
Of course IP addresses are rather pointless without a date and time. I switched from a 208.*.*.* to a 66.*.*.* address just this morning.
First three numbers - check.
Second three numbers - coming closer.
Third three numbers - danr! Lost once again!
198.137.240.0-198.137.241.255
"Laura! The Twins are using Kazaa again!"
Tom Brokaw: 127.0.0.1 was unavailable for comment.
So nice of the RIAA to give us a big list of IP addresses to go to to download free music!
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
"HELLO!?!? I JUST PAID $10 to sit in this theatre and you're preaching to me to not steal off the internet!??! HELLO? WE'RE THE DAMN PAYING CUSTOMERS."
My first reaction to seeing that ad for the first time was, "there's going to be some guy, some place, who's going to think to himself, "Holy shit! I can get movies online for free?! What the hell am I doing here then??""
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
C:\>ipconfig /release /renew
C:\>ipconfig
Sorry, you have the wrong person.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
my ip at home ends in .1 and to make it even more unusual it also has a 0 in there (as in XXX.0.XXX.1)
Yeah, but 127.0.0.1 doesn't count!
When I first got my Verizon DSL, I was annoyed that I didn't get a static IP address. But now I realize the advantages of a dynamically-assigned IP address. Everytime my DSL connection reconnects, I get assigned new IP, and because my connection crashes regularly, I go through up to 10 IP addresses per day. Thank God for Verizon and their crappy connections. Try finding me now, RIAA! Nyaaah Nyaaah!!
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"one of my neighbours grabbed an IP from my wireless router"
If plausible deniability works for the government, it damned well ought to work for individuals.
I think I spotted several SCO IP addresses in there. Maybe the best thing to do is let RIAA know that SCO is using their servers as major music sharing hubs and at the same time convince SCO that RIAA has been running unlicensed copies of SCO Unix (what's it called this week?) for years. Let the clueless losers battle one another to death while the rest of us get on with our lives.
Why dont we all just use proxy's in china?
I searched for mine .... 127.0.0.1
Couldn't find it in that list!
Good thing too - I'd reallly get busted!
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Do you 24.68.123.57 swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth..
Your Honor, this is a clear case of mistaken identity. I am not, and have never been, 24.68.123.57. I am, and have always been, 127.0.0.1.
I bet it really bugged the RIAA to see 128.210.99.156 on the list.
"Now gluttony and exploitation serves eight!" - TV's Frank
He probably cheats at CounterStrike too. Fucker.
This is RIAA maths... so was it actually 27 lawsuits but some of them were really serious?
"Who am I? I'm Johnny Cochraine in a class C address."
"If the octet does not contain the bit, you must acquit!"
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