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Iceland and USA Feel the Copyright Industry's Wrath
spellraiser writes "Iceland's Internet traffic saw a substantial decrease this week as police raided the homes of 12 individuals suspected of sharing massive amounts of copyrighted material over a private, local DC++ hub that was infiltrated by SMAIS, the Association of film right holders in Iceland. The people who were raided were questioned by the police, and had computer equipment confiscated. It is unclear at this point what their fate is, but there is a distinct possibility might face charges." And in the U.S., an anonymous reader writes "The Recording Industry Association of America strikes again with yet another round of lawsuits. Jon Newston over at P2Pnet.net doesn't hold back anything in his great commentary on it today. Best quote 'It's almost as if having lost its bitterly fought case against the p2p application owners and failed in its many obvious (and expensive) attempts to disrupt the p2p networks, the music industry is now determined to vent its wrath on helpless men, women and children who can't hope to stand up to it with its tremendous political and financial power.'"
Osama is lucky he doesn't share videos over the Internet or he would awaken the RIAA Rebellious Viva La Resistance Militia capturing him in 24 hours.
dropped an amazing 40% after the raid. Wow. Fun.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Of course! Paying $8 to see a movie once but paying $20 for something you can listen to for a long time is just wrong and overpriced. I mean come on! Isn't that obvious.
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GeneralEmergency
We won't need the internet anymore, after all there isn't enough music being created to keep up with the ever increasing storage capacities.
Soon everything ever created will fit on one DVD and that will be the end of the RIAA as we know it!! The pirates win!!
Of course I'll have to explain to my future grandchildren why we have been listening to the same Britney Spears song for the last 30 years, but screw it!! it was FREE!!
Copyright is not an industry.
On the contrary, copyright is the only thing that makes music or movie an industry. Ask Jack Valenti.
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he German Army in fighting Russia is like an elephant attacking a host of ants. The elephant will kill thousands, perhaps even millions, of ants, but in the end their numbers will overcome him and he will be eaten to the bone.
Did anyone else have flashbacks to Peter Jackson's Battle of Pelenor Fields when they read that?
We seem to have tons of hacked windows boxes out there spewing spam and everything else out into the wild. How come no one has made some sort of P2P zombie that shares (or at least proxies) tons of music from all over the net? That would either get the RIAA to sue the owner of every unpatched windows box in the world, or make it pretty much impossible to prove that anyone knew they were sharing.
Either result seems like it would be fun to watch.
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