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RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown
New submitter souperfly writes "The Inquirer has a list of 21 sites that the RIAA is looking to get shut down by ISPs this week. The list includes sites filestube, Bomb-Mp3, Mp3skull, Bitsnoop, Extratorrent, Torrenthound, Torrentreactor and Monova, and at least one ISP — Virgin Media in the UK — has confirmed the number of targeted sites. BT confirmed it will block the site, but didn't say when. Before, it was thought that only six sites were lined up for a chop."
Please, find a violation on RIAA.org and get them shut down. I'm begging you.
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
"We highlight certain sites that are so central to the activities of a particular society that they almost single-handedly prevent the development of a legitimate online music marketplace," the RIAA said in a statement penned by EVP Neil Turkewitz.
Fuck off and die in a fire. You do not have the right to dictate changes to a society so that it fits your business model better.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
I didn't know about half of those before.
And all these sites will have due process rights and a day in court before any of thier sites or livelyhoods are ruined... Oh wait a minute....
I just asked my iPhone:
"Remind me to do my laundry when I get home."
And Siri replied:
"I'm sorry, David, I may be a black iPhone but I am certainly not your nigger!"
WTF?
Good thing they don't know about t******z.eu
That's been the best one for years.
I thought for a moment this was going to be more interesting. "But you can't shut down our ISP, how will we connect to the internet?" "We don't care. Virgin Media has been used for copyright infringement and must be eliminated from the face of the earth. Our business model requires it, and we all know that the well-being of the music industry overrides all other concerns."
I ask myself why would anyone support this industry with manufactured superstars, wealthy clowns that shudder and flop to braindead pulsing all the while ancient disc media is shifted around the world as if some shadowy currency
the day music died was long ago but from it arose a gigantic undead corpse in the 60s, going through the motions of art while fuelling on greed until only the hunger for money was left
this beast was slow to understand the impact of a new communications medium, its reptilian brain finally sensing threat began its strangling trying to lock our culture in a box and charge admission, building the weapons of silence for the defence of a dusty ledger
furthermore I think I may have taken NyQuil instead of DayQuil and shouldn't be modifying this database script... UG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RIAA_member_labels
I no longer do.
Sharing cassette tapes in my day was how we learned of new music.
Notice the sansui g 8000-35000 are in storage not the living room.
We shared listening experience Who cares the crap mp3 on someones ipod no one.
They stole from Canadian artists and are suing people who pirate albums from Canadian artists, against the will of said artists.
These have been high-quality torrent sites. I'd be outraged to see them go.
One less reason to like 'murika >:(
Please please please please because it makes my eyes bleed:
"Get shut down" --- verb.
"A shutdown" --- noun.
Learn English.
And I target the RIAA with my asshole
Yeah, that was nice, don't tell us what all is affected.
(MP3Skull will be no big loss, never saw a downloadable file ever.)
And I'm betting if KAT was on the list we'd hear about it.
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
I like it, so gangsta.
The RIAA is actually the music industries final form. The only way for them to remain relevant is to become a law firm that litigates non stop.
I swear they were the ones who originally told me about last few sites I've used on the rare occasions I download music or a movie. Especially when it comes to ISP level filtering, this is basically an advert.
Then let me internationalize Xicor's comment: I would hazard a guess and say that it would be beneficial to the global public if the IFPI and MPA would go f themselves.
So what happens once video game publishers, who own copyright in the compositions underlying all of OCR, start cease-and-desisting OCR?
So if I were to write, record, and release an album outside the RIAA system, how should I defend myself from plagiarism accusations brought by the music publishers that share a parent company with the RIAA labels? For example, what should George Harrison have done differently when writing "My Sweet Lord"?
Didn't Apple (mostly) kill music DRM by proving that people will buy digital music if it isn't a major pain in the ass to purchase, store, recover, or access? Hasn't the rise of streaming services like Pandora, Rdio and Spotify places the final nails in RIAA's coffin?
Isn't the lack of live, streaming NFL and NBA games cable and satellite's last hope for DRM laced video? More and more people prefer NOT to sit with a bunch of self absorbed phone addicts in a dark theater to watch a crappy movie.
Only the dead have seen the end of War. - Plato
kat.ph is still around!....no wait, it's kickass.ph!....no wait, it's kickass.to!
Here in Australia, we went through similar motions last year (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/20/0058202/australian-isp-wins-case-against-movie-studios), however our difference is that the local ISP fought back. In interviews with that ISP's CEO, he basically stated (paraphrased) "If MPAA/RIAA reported their findings to the police, and the police asked us for information on our customers - we would gladly provide those details. However we do not report to the MPAA/RIAA, so why should we get our customers in trouble if it's not warranted".
What the UK definitely needs, is an ISP who will stand up to the fact that the MPAA/RIAA actually have no rights both nationally and internationally. They can whinge all they want, but until the police/relevant local governing body with jurisdiction over the matter makes the decision, the ISPs should be free to provide access to whatever sites that the customers want.
This is absolutely ridiculous that an association has such influence in this regard. Emphasis that it's an association, not a governing body / police department.
I don't see how it should necessarily be so hard to select all of one's photos whose timestamp is last month, paste them in a document, verify that they're actually photos that one remembers taking, save in some format accepted by copyright.gov, and submit the file for registration.
Yeah, I'm not on the list. Google indexed my entire private multimedia site and posted it to the web. As near as I can figure the webproxy at work submitted everything I accessed. To think I still can't get Google to index my public site, maybe I should post some anti Bush rhetoric to entice them.
Yes. This is one of their most repugnant rethorical tricks (and they have quite a bunch of them). Their version is even worse: they don't say "by default". Just "Shared == illegitimate". Ugh.
This is good news. The torrent server panorama was getting stale and complacent.
Cheers to the new players! Live short and bright lives!
Aww, for a moment I thought they were going to shut down Virgin Media, I almost liked RIAA.
Wonder what the full list of 21 is? Is youtube itself on the list? What about bing or google?
RIAA is just a proxy for the big names of the entertainment industry. Hurt them where it hurst, in the wallet. Boycott movies and cable TV.