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RIAA Goes after LimeWire
PCM2 writes "A coalition of major recording companies sued the operators of the file-sharing program LimeWire for copyright infringement Friday, claiming the firm encourages users to trade music without permission." From thge article: " The case is the first piracy lawsuit brought against a distributor of file-sharing software since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that technology companies could be sued for copyright infringement on the grounds that they encouraged customers to steal music and movies over the Internet. In the complaint, the record companies contend LimeWire's operators are "actively facilitating, encouraging and enticing" computer users to steal music by failing to block access to copyright works and building a business model that allows them to profit directly from piracy. "
...are the operators of usenet.
The cops will be required by the **AA to scan all cars with special equipment that detects copyright infringing data on CDs and DVDs.
Oh wait, I'm giving them ideas.........
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
For making computers, and CD and DVD burners... They're the real enemy!
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It's amazing to me that the RIAA hasn't figured out that they really need to sue those bastards that wrote TCP/IP and didn't think for a minute to include DRM in the original description... They've made so much money since all the networks that operate on the protocol so viciously promote piracy of copyrighted material. They should pay for their lack of foresight.
Boot Windows, Linux, and ESX over the network for free.
Thank God I use eMule.
No, they will first sue International Paper, Bic, Dixon Ticonderoga, or Crayola. After all, paper, pens, pencils, and crayons can all be used to make copies of pages of song lyrics or a scene of a movie.
And why stop there? Since blood can technically be used as a writing medium, the RIAA and MPAA will soon take the drastic step of suing every person on Earth with blood flowing in their veins.
Satan should really be suing *AA for violations on his patent on devious and inane abuses of courts;
as well as making it much more difficult for him to download his favorite Britney spears' albums.
microsoft is actively encouraging hackers to write virusses, trojans, worms etc. (since the protection is so poor)
so this means microsoft must be accountable for any damage that any worm, virus, trojan etc. does to any windows pc on this planet...
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
You still have blood in you, and its pirated blood at that!
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So why aren't we suing the RIAA for giving us the music in the first place, thus allowing the music to be pirated?