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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.
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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....
And, ah, yes, iTunes, AmazonMP3 are just terrible market failures that prove no one still pays for music.
I'm glad the whip and buggy industries were not as organized as today's IP industries.
Also, I find it insulting that Mr. Turkewitz considers shared music illegitimate by default. What music I have released, and most of my friends have released, was free and distribution was encouraged. In fact, my first release was on ocremix.org, where all the music is free and torrents of their content are an encouraged distribution method. I'm sure glad this RIAA shill has set us straight and made it clear how illegitimate our free community-minded distribution of our works is. Sure wouldn't want to encourage that kind of illegitimate "online music marketplace."
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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."
You do not have the right to dictate changes to a society so that it fits your business model better.
So, how about the bills before Congress authorizing more H1B's? American companies should be able to hire the best talent to compete in the global economy, right?
Oh sorry... it's only someone else's business model that needs to adapt to the changing times. When it's our personal business model that's at stake, then it's, like, personal.
Indeed. I, too, make music and release it for free, encouraging distribution. I have to put big disclaimers on my site saying that yes this is legal and no I am not affiliated with any RIAA record labels.
(Posting anonymously so as not to appear as a self-promotion.)
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.
Easy there cowboy, no need to get angry. None of the sites they I'd ever heard of before today, and I pirate the everloving fuck out of anything stamped as owned by the British Emp--er, RIAA. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go dump some more of their junk in the river while dressed like one of the village people...
As long as they maintain this level of incompetence, piracy will live on forever.
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For a second there, I thought he was describing RIAA.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
As a huge fan of ocremix and a man who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, I'd like to thank you and people like you for remembering what it's like to be an artist.
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
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.
oh, I'm no artist. I was a post-surgical kid on Vicodin with a demo version of Fruity Loops on Win98. But I have since taken up guitar, partially inspired by that experience.
Music is not an industry. Music is practically a food group.
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Hint, hint...
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Good on you! Keep up the good work.
And I thought I checked anon as well. I bet I anon-posted on the wrong response tab.
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H1Bs are an underclass. That's the real problem with H1Bs.
If someone is important enough and their skills important enough that you want to drag them half way across the planet then treat them like a real person and give them a green card or even instant citizenship.
No republic should tolerate the creation of an underclass. It's a threat to the liberties of everyone. It's also ultimately bad for business since the bottom line is entangled with individual liberty.
Also, the idea that corporations can poach talent from across the planet is also unequal. If they can do that then we should likewise be able to do the same (work where the cost of living is cheap).
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Remember when it was England who used to tell Americans what to do?
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These have been high-quality torrent sites. I'd be outraged to see them go.
One less reason to like 'murika >:(
Here's a glimpse into that alternate future.
http://whyswords.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/horsecar.jpg
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That would mean anything if I, or the people being discussed, had anything to do with Congress or H1Bs.
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...
Vaguely. I seem to remember lots of violence being the result, incidentally.
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...
If you'll kindly read the article, you'll find out that doesn't actually seem to matter to these clowns.
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...
You might take your own advice. Perfectly valid, if you read in the missing "a" before "Shutdown" that is commonly dropped in headlines.
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...
You're reading it wrong.
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...
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.
Music is not an industry
I think this deserves repeating.
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Doesn't even have to be free music. If I own a CD and I lend it to a friend, or share it with a friend when they come to visit, or I make a copy for my phone or computer, that's perfectly legitimate.
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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.
Well, kinda. Music sales are way down, even including MP3s. What is booming is streaming. Most music is shit, or at least not worth 50p to own, so people just stream it instead of owning it. Streaming doesn't make as much money as sales.
The other worrying thing is that apparently streaming and MP3 are good enough quality for most people. The music industry was rather hoping that there would be a market for higher quality than CD, in the form of SACD an DVD-Audio. It's their own fault really, modern music (even re-releases of old stuff) is so heavily compressed and distorted that there really isn't any point trying for higher quality recordings.
Protip record labels, if you want to sell more discs. The last two I bought were re-issues of ones I already owned but properly mastered. The only people still buying your warez care about sound quality. Everyone else listens for free on YouTube or the radio.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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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"?
Also, the idea that corporations can poach talent from across the planet is also unequal. If they can do that then we should likewise be able to do the same (work where the cost of living is cheap).
Isn't that what work visas or outright immigration are for?
Aside from that, one country letting businesses import underpaid labor (via H1B or unreported illegal immigration)to keep wages artificially low shouldn't force all other countries outside that arrangement to do the same. After watching the damage that approach has caused California over the last few decades, I wouldn't wish it on another country's citizens unless they were truly vile individuals.
FWIW, the above is due to anger at the socioeconomic situation and associated problems (e.g. rise in crime). My schools, friends & extended family already had a high degree of racial diversity (including plenty of 1st-to-3rd gen immigrants), so it's not an "omg non-white people" issue.
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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
I don't pirate online, but that's not to say my previous collection is from umm...dubious origins. In any event, I do stream music rather than listen to FM radio because it opens me up to whole genres of music I would otherwise not be exposed to short of making a random purchase of music. Which BTW was the norm back in the mid 90s's and prior. Back then if you wanted to hear music other than what was on radio rotation, you got exposed to music from other peoples collection (which was often limited), or close your eyes and pull an LP/CD/Cassette and random and hoped for the best. However today, I'm finding all sorts of obscure bands that range from absolute shit to pure genius-why-isn't-this-top-40 level of stuff. Eventually, I'll find something I like and will do one of two things. 1; find a used CD and purchase online or, 2; purchase music from iTunes. Come full circle now, I'm purchasing more music thanks to legitimate internet streaming than I've ever did before. As for the RIAA, they can go fuck themselves!!! They're not the sole arbiter of what music should and shouldn't be popular. I'm not fucking cattle!
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You are obviously poorly educated, my friend. Let me help you with a basic concept. Any activity which fails to enrich either an American corporation, or the wealthiest 1%, or both, is by default "illegitimate". Your purpose in life is to help to amass more fortunes for those who already have more money than they can ever hope to spend. If you are not fulfilling that purpose, then you are illegitimate.
Check your sarcasm meter - the above is sarcasm because I have posted it. Had a RIAA rep posted it, there would be no sarcasm at all - he would be 100% serious.
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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.
One thing I like to do in discussions of this subject is check out links to music. So please, post some links. Since you've blown your cover anyway, might as well.
Intellectual Property is a monopolistic, selfish, and defective concept. It is "tyranny over the mind of man"
Theif? I produce!
And yes, it does indeed suck a whole bag of dicks. The page title is not sarcasm. 99% of what is actually on my webserver is not globally visible and indexing does not work. It's a glorified dropbox. Sure, I used to have a blog - but it went away when I got sick of fighting with security vulnerabilities and realized I didn't really have much to say on it. I put things on it, then link to them. See? That's you, right there!
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Agreed. Honestly, AFAIC if you're contributing to the conversation, even a little, there's no reason not to post your own links to your own site(s). It's the "posting just to advertise" that people hate.
This is good news. The torrent server panorama was getting stale and complacent.
Cheers to the new players! Live short and bright lives!
+1!
You've characterized the slashdot reader very well. They are libertarian as long as their jobs are safe and their lifestyle is not threatened. They want no government interference whether it's job market or drug ban. But put THEM in a market, start evaluating options for replacing them, they become protectionist!
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The courts issued a order. That's about the ultimate legal requirement to do something.
And the ISP's did protest at first and fought the first orders in court. They failed, and appealed. The court still issued the orders. Since then, the ISP's have a legal requirement to carry out the orders.
The ISP's have done everything they can and did not want to co-operate. And there's some dubious legal theory going on (for a start, the "big six" ISP's are the only ones that are required to block things, while anyone smaller doesn't even get involved and isn't required to do anything at all). But that has to be turned over in court at great expense because the legal decision has already been made.
Sure, we could fight it more, but it's hard to justify why you need to facilitate access to illegal content.
Reading the article? On /.? Ridiculous.
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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.
It doesn't have to pose a major threat; every lost sale is a lost sale. I haven't given them a dime in years, and I don't "pirate" their product.
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The music industry was rather hoping that there would be a market for higher quality than CD, in the form of SACD an DVD-Audio.
Don't forget the Blu-ray album reported the other week. To me, it just smacks of trying to get rid of music which is portable; let's all go back to strapping hulking disc (or, god forbid, cassette) players to our belts with bags of the relevant storage medium on our backs. Not that I think this so-called hi-def audio is a bad idea, just the execution of it..
There's no substitute for a hard copy (well, a copy I have on a device where *I* control the bits), even if only to retain it if they stop serving it up.
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So all we have to do is found a bunch of other ISPs but keep their number of customers just barely below the No. 6 position? :)
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Be forewarned, I had no musical training or experience at the time. My brother was in percussion at the time in high school. Here it is. My brother is DJ Goyim, I was DJ Intermodal. I really think he and I should do another collaboration now that it has been 12 years. Especially once I get some equipment and can actually record my guitar, and it would be great if he picked his drums up again. Last I saw, the entire kit was sitting in our parents' hall closet.
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Protip to corporations: if you want to sell stuff, you need to have a middle class to buy it, which means you can't horde your funds or merely cycle them among the already wealthy.
"trickle down economics" works as well as "bottom up economics", but really what we need is "middle to middle economics", in which the majority of the population earn similar amounts.
Somehow, every system we build, no matter how new and updated, an aristocracy forms at the top of the power structure and attempts to rule the masses indefinitely.
Also, I find it insulting that Mr. Turkewitz considers shared music illegitimate by default.
It's in his best interests -- YOU are his competition. You are the biggest threat to the RIAA -- you, the independent. Do you really think the RIAA gives a shit if I give you a copy of a Metallica album? But if I give Joe Blow a copy of your album, he might like it and buy another of your albums, leaving Joe with less money to buy an RIAA album with.
As Doctorow says, nobody ever went broke from piracy but many artists have starved from obscurity, which is why I put the first drafts of "Nobots" in my /. journal; as soon as I can get it printed (been waiting 3 weeks for a galley proof, they shipped it last Thursday and it's not here yet) I have a couple of sales. I may not make back what I've invested in it (so far about $350) but if nobody had read my stuff, how would I sell even a single copy?
As soon as I get to where you can get a copy from Amazon I'll put a finished version of it, one chapter per week, in my journal and on my new web site. A month after it's out I'll make paperback available, a month after that I'm posting PDF and e-pub on my site for free download... because I didn't write it to sell, I wrote it to be read.
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Oh, on this we certainly agree, I was imply remarking on the potentially libellous nature of referring to file sharing as a whole as if it were illegitimate until proven otherwise. Innocent until proven guilty is the basic premise of criminal law in the United States, even if people have bastardized that over the past 200 or so years.
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Oh, on this we certainly agree,
I was sure of that, I just needed to beat my dead horse again, that lazy bastard...
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