Yep, and finding out IP's and discovering what programs you have is legally tresspassing. They would be "hacking" your machine which is just as illegal. You could sue them or better yet put them in jail.
Any the best bet is join the Class Action suit against the RIAA for price-fixing.
Here is the act that the RIAA claims or will claims allowed them to set "miniumal prices" for CD's
Miller-Tydings Act "contracts or agreements prescribing minium prices for the resale of a commodity and which bears, or the label or container of which bears, the trake mark,label, or name of the the producer or distributor of such commodity and which is in free and open competition with other commodities of the same general class produced or distributed by others, when contracts or aggreements of that description are laeful as applied to intrastate transactions, under any statue, law, or public policy...in effect in any state"
Key words being free and open compeition. Is there any cometition to the RIAA? NO, none that can rivial it.
How to hang their Asses
Sherman Antitrust act Section 1 "Every Contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspirancy, in restraint of trade or commerce amoung several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal"
Clayton Anti Trust act section 2 "Every person who shall monoplize, or attempt to monoplize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monoplize any part of trade or commerce amoung the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed gulity of a misemeanor"
Robinson-Patman Act No good quotes, basically outlaws price fixing.
There is no major oppisition to the RIAA. If you want a major record to be distributed, you have to go through them. By shutting down other means of access to the material, such as napster, they are being monopolistic. By setting "minium prices" they have stiffled compeition since all the major corperations must abide by the RIAA's rules. Now if Sony set prices at $8 and BMG at $10, this I think would be legal since they are similar products at different prices. However, the industry had one set price between all the major labels. This leads to unfair compeition and price fixing.
There are a few countries out there that do not reconize International Copyrights - forgive me if I'm wrong but Finland comes to mind. Why not move the servers to that country, incorperate and watch the RIAA try and shut them down. Of cource there are other problems, some of these countries have unstable governments and some of the tax rates are 70%, but if you want to beat the system...
I think he's right. I have the Rage Fury 32MB and only SuSE supported it, at least a year ago when I turned Linux, but I don't run any games or high end graphics programs other than GIMP and Blender(on very rare occations). There just isn't a large enough Linux Market to warrent production of expensive software divers. I'm mean after all, ATI needs to spend more time with windows driver b/c the orginal RAGE driver kinda sucked.
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Any the best bet is join the Class Action suit against the RIAA for price-fixing.
Miller-Tydings Act
"contracts or agreements prescribing minium prices for the resale of a commodity and which bears, or the label or container of which bears, the trake mark,label, or name of the the producer or distributor of such commodity and which is in free and open competition with other commodities of the same general class produced or distributed by others, when contracts or aggreements of that description are laeful as applied to intrastate transactions, under any statue, law, or public policy...in effect in any state"
Key words being free and open compeition. Is there any cometition to the RIAA? NO, none that can rivial it.
How to hang their Asses
Sherman Antitrust act Section 1
"Every Contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspirancy, in restraint of trade or commerce amoung several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal"
Clayton Anti Trust act section 2
"Every person who shall monoplize, or attempt to monoplize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monoplize any part of trade or commerce amoung the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed gulity of a misemeanor"
Robinson-Patman Act
No good quotes, basically outlaws price fixing.
There is no major oppisition to the RIAA. If you want a major record to be distributed, you have to go through them. By shutting down other means of access to the material, such as napster, they are being monopolistic. By setting "minium prices" they have stiffled compeition since all the major corperations must abide by the RIAA's rules. Now if Sony set prices at $8 and BMG at $10, this I think would be legal since they are similar products at different prices. However, the industry had one set price between all the major labels. This leads to unfair compeition and price fixing.
Now where the hell is the trust busters?
There are a few countries out there that do not reconize International Copyrights - forgive me if I'm wrong but Finland comes to mind. Why not move the servers to that country, incorperate and watch the RIAA try and shut them down. Of cource there are other problems, some of these countries have unstable governments and some of the tax rates are 70%, but if you want to beat the system...
I think he's right. I have the Rage Fury 32MB and only SuSE supported it, at least a year ago when I turned Linux, but I don't run any games or high end graphics programs other than GIMP and Blender(on very rare occations). There just isn't a large enough Linux Market to warrent production of expensive software divers. I'm mean after all, ATI needs to spend more time with windows driver b/c the orginal RAGE driver kinda sucked.