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Mothers Taking the Fight to the RIAA
An anonymous reader writes "p2pnet is reporting that two more single mothers are refusing to be victimized by the RIAA. Patricia Santagelo was one of the first to stand up and fight the lawsuits, which some say resemble protection racket schemes. Now Dawnell Leadbetter of Seattle and Tanya Andersen of Oregon have decided to follow suit and stand up against the recording industry behemoth. From the article: 'Don't let your fear of these massive companies allow you to deny your belief in your own innocence. Paying these settlements is an admission of guilt. If you're not guilty of violating the law, don't pay.'"
Now that the women are taking care of business, crap will get done
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MARIAA. That does make a nice acronym.
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"This is the RIAA Collective," they said menacingly. "Prepare to be assimilated. We will add your Financial and topographical distinctiveness to our own. You will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
That and we don't got dates for Saturday.
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From TFA, she sounds like someone who'd be on dialup. The RIAA should thank all the people on P2P on dialup for pissing people off with long download times and making them go out and buy the CD.
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
That's it. From now on, instead of downloading music I'm going to break in and steal the masters. At least then I don't have to deal with crappy compression.
"Because Science" is one step from "Because old book". Try "Because of my experiment testing my falsifiable assertion".
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Essentially that is what they are doing by suing parents and grandparents of kids who downloaded music illegally.
Here's a solution everyone except the really biblically paranoid can agree on as a punishment for those kids:
Tattoo a name of a Band or albumn cover art on the kid. Simple and it allows for a solution that doesn't cost working class parents an arm and a leg and it is a punishment most people would shrug at.
Then, eventually, when a parent sues the RIAA for civil rights abuses based on religious grounds, the damn organization will have to try to focus on how to improve their products instead of relying on extortion to make up for lost revenue.
Unfortunately, in the US, it's not that easy.
Tort law is one of those things that isn't intended to punish the person causing the harm, but to compensate the person that was harmed. Consequently, we have lots of situations where a seemingly innocent mistake on one person's part can end up with them paying significant damages to someone else. "But I didn't know!" It doesn't matter.
To put it another way, if it can be proved that infringement of someone's copyright was done, the law is set up to make sure that person is compensated. It doesn't matter of the person causing the harm knew, or intended it to happen.
I personally hate this, since it allows for a completely innocent mistake or accident to completely ruin someone's life, if the damage they caused was significant enough. (Some of this is balanced a bit by the requirement that the person being harmed wasn't negligent in allowing the harm. Driving around in a billion-dollar car made of diamonds, and then suing someone into bankruptcy for dinging your car door, probably wouldn't go over well, for example.) I'd favor, for example, penalizing the person if they knowingly or intentionally caused the harm, else compensate the victim out of a fund built from taxes.
But IANAL, and it's possible that this approach to torts is reasonable once you get at the heart of things.
That has got to be the most impressive specimen that I have ever seen. Well done.
Fine -> Declare bankruptcy -> Go piss on the courthouse lawn.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Blame the RIAA!
(they're not even a real country anyway)
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Everyone knows they have a new business model now. It's called: Sue children, single mothers, grandparents and yes, even dead people in some cases. So, at least in theory, their business model has evolved somewhat.
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Ultimately, if you're going to fight this sort of thing, you'll want to not have too many assets, so if you do lose, you don't lose much.
First time anybody has ever made poverty sound almost cool.
Table-ized A.I.
A made-for-tv movie staring Lindsay Wagner. Her physically-challenged daughter is just starting to make progress by listening to P2P songs when suddenly the RIAA files a lawsuit against them both. Only a last-minute visit from Madonna stops the plans of the evil RIAA. Yup.
Some settling may occur during posting.
Also, I have personally set up a server where one can temporarily host any music collection, less than the 100GB limit, on a ftp server.
Most importantly, we have encouraged thousands of students to think twice before participating in the extortion scheme that they have been victims of since when they first bought a piece of music in their early youths.
I'm currently trying to set up a local darknet through a few servers around the Mathematics and Computer Science departments.
Lastly, I'm volunteering my time to help anyone set up a Linux system if they pledge to not use that same system to host Windows for the rest of its existance. So far, I have liberated 17 systems.
I'm happy to say that even in an University that has no firm roots in information liberation, we have been able to encourage a few hundred students to rethink their stance on the ligitimacy of intellectual property rights.
The FTP server has an IP address of 131.96.244.6. Please Slashdot it as much as possible.
Slashdot user 11846: Your unauthorized use of Kris Kristofferson's IP and it's dissemination to millions of people on the internet is unconscionably un-American. However, we are willing to compromise and defer a civil suit if you admit guilt and bring a penalty of 3,500 dollars in small, non-sequential bills to the northwest corner of 1330 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, DC.
Come alone.
Sincerely,
The RIAA
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I want to lead a torch carrying mob down K Street and sack every lobbyist office and burn every corporate jet at the airport.
Dude, gimme a call when you're ready to go. Just not on a Saturday, my weekends are kind of tight lately. . .
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Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
BTW US Federal courts make substantial allowances for pro se defendants.
Great, now I need to hire a lawyer to tell me what "pro se defendant" means.
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