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The RIAA's Rocky Road Ahead
The RIAA's new plan to enlist ISPs in its war on file sharing, once it announced it was calling a halt to new consumer lawsuits, is running into rough sledding. Wired reports on the continuing legal murkiness of the RIAA's interpretation of copyright law. And one small ISP in Louisiana asks the recording organization, "You want me to police your intellectual property? What's your billing address?"
why does the RIAA have to pay this ISP? Part of the value that the ISP provides to customers is the ability to pirate music. Therefore, the ISP should be paying for this.
And the ISP should send the RIAA a pony.
And a cute little puppy.
Whups, sorry about that. I channeled the RIAA there for a second.
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I have 60 petabyte of songs downloaded
Is there that much recorded music in the world?
Maybe not by itself, but if you added rap and pop there might be...
(There is supposed to be a Sarcmark® here, but my $1.99 check hasn't cleared, yet...)
From the background article of the same source: "In regards to billing, we fail to understand what you mean with that!" Apparently, that question is far too complex and foreign a question for these money-hungry scum to comprehend.
Oh, contrair
Here here, it's a doggy-dog world.
Only if you listen to 1 song at a time.
the trick is play 500 songs at 4x speed...then you are done in in like 55 years
or if you will 4 songs at 500X speed.
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