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RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

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."

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  1. Dear Anonymous by intermodal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please, find a violation on RIAA.org and get them shut down. I'm begging you.

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    1. Re:Dear Anonymous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      As Jefferson said:

      We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and Lulz.

  2. Thanks for the list by neo-mkrey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I didn't know about half of those before.

  3. And all will have due process by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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....

  4. Re:what the flying fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And, ah, yes, iTunes, AmazonMP3 are just terrible market failures that prove no one still pays for music.

  5. Re:what the flying fuck? by intermodal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  6. Re:what the flying fuck? by intermodal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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