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AT&T, Comcast To Join RIAA Team
suraj.sun writes "AT&T and Comcast, two of the nation's largest Internet service providers, are expected to be among a group of ISPs that will cooperate with the music industry in battling illegal file sharing, three sources close to the companies told CNET News. The RIAA said last month that it had enlisted the help of ISPs as part of a new antipiracy campaign. The RIAA has declined to identify which ISPs or how many. It's important to note that none of the half dozen or so ISPs involved has signed agreements. But as it stands, AT&T and Comcast are among the companies that have indicated they wish to participate in what the RIAA calls a 'graduated response program.'"
Assholes?
Lets compare apples to rocks why don't we.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Wondeful, because there's no other crime that even comes close to music piracy.
Just imagine it, you get arrested and put in a cell with a dozen other people:
Cell occupant 1: "Hey pale skinny white guy, what you in here for?"
Cell occupant 2: "I bet he got caught jacking a 7-11"
Cell occupant 1: "That's what I'm in here for"
Cell occupant 3: "No shit, that's what I did last week, but I got caught today mugging someone"
Cell occupant 1: "So what is it boy?"
You: "I downloaded a Backstreet Boys album without paying for it.."
*all the other cell occupants slowly back away*
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
Nono, that's the first A.
"Recording Industry Assholes of America."
=Smidge=
These ISPs like to complain about the excessive bandwidth used by filesharers. I can only assume that once they start kicking these evil users off the system, my connection speeds will increase to the advertised rates, and soon they will be able to reduce my monthly bill.
Although I've been a Slashdot user for years (id in the 40K range), I'm posting anonymously because of the vitriol that I'm likely to incur with the following statement:
Quit bitching about file sharing, what the RIAA is doing, and which ISPs are cooperating.
The vast majority of shared files are pirated movies/songs made by people who got off their asses and produced something from nothing. If you're downloading these, you're nothing but a fawkin' LEECH. That's right, a leech.
You're sucking out the economic value that artists, directors, etc. have produced and replacing it with ... nothing. Like you're owed it all!
If I came and swiped your Ipod or computer filled with pirated crap, you'd be pissed. You worked for that Ipod or computer (unless mommy or daddy gave it to you) and you damn well deserve to have it, and not have it swiped by someone. Riiight??? And you wouldn't whine if a neighbor spotting me swiping your shit, called the cops, and I got caught.
And don't try to say that the majority of file swappers are writing linux drivers and sharing them. Bullshit. Most downloads are either you fawking leeches or pervs.
I've watched this bullshit for nearly 10 years on Slashdot and well, it's tiring.
Go produce something before you bitch you can't download the efforts of someone else's labor for free. Then you'll understand why the RIAA and ISPs want to protect IP rights.
It's for.... uh..... corrupt downloads.
Fuckers
Let's all start growing cucumber indoors.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Now if they were only smoking more of their product, they would remember to pay the bills...
*Insert "In Soviet Russia" joke here*
Bark less. Wag more.
Rocks are generally not organic.
Maybe not where you're from...
Oh, the humanity! That made me laugh out loud. Loved it. Will you be here all week? I mean, really, how does someone come up with the crazy idea that record companies do something useful?
It's true, bandwidth is pretty sweet with portable drives. The other day I biked about 40 miles with a 1tb hard drive in my bag. I calculated that my bandwidth was about 110 mb/s. Latency was a bit rough though, at 2.5 hours...
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