For more info on O'Reilly's far-out views on technology, be sure to catch him at the upcoming Accelerating Change Conference 2003 in September at Stanford. Other speakers will include Ray Kurzweil, John Koza, Howard Bloom, Eric Drexler, Robert Wright, and many, many others. There aren't many conferences that can manage this kind of big-picture analysis of trends in accelerating change.
A full subpoena may be examined courtesy of Cryptome:
http://cryptome.org/riaa-hit.htm
Or, for the lazy:
This is one of several hundred similar subpoenas issued by RIAA recently under the DMCA. Most have been filed in US District Court in the District of Columbia. US District Court in the District of Columbia
1:03-mc-00273-UNA
Unassigned, presiding
Date filed: 07/02/2003 Date of last filing: 07/02/2003 Entered 07/17/03 LAW OFFICES MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP A PARTNERSHIP INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS TRIDENT CENTER 11377 WEST OLYMPIC BOULEVARD LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90064-1683 (310) 312-2000 FAX: (310) 312-3100 June 30, 2003 Sir or Madam Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. 3 Executive Campus Cherry Hill. NJ 08002
Re: Notice of Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3))
Dear Sir or Madam:
We are counsel to the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. ("RIAA") and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whose member companies create, manufacture, and/or distribute approximately ninety percent (90%) of all legitimate sound recordings sold and distributed in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we submit that we are authorized to act on behalf of the R1AA and its member companies in matters involving the online infringement of their copyrighted sound recordings.
A user, customer, or subscriber of your system or network, identified by the IP address, date, and time on the attached document, is offering tbr download over the Internet files containing copyrighted sound recordings owned by RIAA member companies. The attached document also includes a representative list of the recordings the identified user is offering for download. We have a good faith belief that such activities are not authorized by the copyright owners, their agents, or the law, and assert that the intbrmation in this Notice of Copyright Infringement is accurate, based on the data available to us.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Should you have any questions, please contact me at (310) 312-3297 or at dmca@msk.com.
[Signature]
Yvette Molinaro for MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
24.61.155.10 on 6/26/2003 at 11:49:00 p.m.(EDT)
The user at the above-identified IP address, using the screen name Tyler@KaZaA, has offered for download through the online media distribution system known as KaZaA copyrighted sound recordings owned by RIAA member record companies, including the following representative recordings:
Michelle Branch - All You Wanted Avril Lavigne - Complicated Radiohead - Just Incubus - Nice to Know You Busta Rhymes - Pass the Courvoisier Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun Incubus - Stellar Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine A PERFECT CIRCLE - Three Libras...etc
For more info on O'Reilly's far-out views on technology, be sure to catch him at the upcoming Accelerating Change Conference 2003 in September at Stanford. Other speakers will include Ray Kurzweil, John Koza, Howard Bloom, Eric Drexler, Robert Wright, and many, many others. There aren't many conferences that can manage this kind of big-picture analysis of trends in accelerating change.
A full subpoena may be examined courtesy of Cryptome:
...etc
http://cryptome.org/riaa-hit.htm
Or, for the lazy:
This is one of several hundred similar subpoenas issued by RIAA recently under the DMCA. Most have been filed in US District Court in the District of Columbia.
US District Court in the District of Columbia
1:03-mc-00273-UNA
Unassigned, presiding
Date filed: 07/02/2003 Date of last filing: 07/02/2003
Entered 07/17/03
LAW OFFICES
MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
A PARTNERSHIP INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS
TRIDENT CENTER
11377 WEST OLYMPIC BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90064-1683
(310) 312-2000
FAX: (310) 312-3100
June 30, 2003
Sir or Madam
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.
3 Executive Campus
Cherry Hill. NJ 08002
Re: Notice of Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3))
Dear Sir or Madam:
We are counsel to the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. ("RIAA") and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whose member companies create, manufacture, and/or distribute approximately ninety percent (90%) of all legitimate sound recordings sold and distributed in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we submit that we are authorized to act on behalf of the R1AA and its member companies in matters involving the online infringement of their copyrighted sound recordings.
A user, customer, or subscriber of your system or network, identified by the IP address, date, and time on the attached document, is offering tbr download over the Internet files containing copyrighted sound recordings owned by RIAA member companies. The attached document also includes a representative list of the recordings the identified user is offering for download. We have a good faith belief that such activities are not authorized by the copyright owners, their agents, or the law, and assert that the intbrmation in this Notice of Copyright Infringement is accurate, based on the data available to us.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Should you have any questions, please contact me at (310) 312-3297 or at dmca@msk.com.
[Signature]
Yvette Molinaro
for
MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
24.61.155.10 on 6/26/2003 at 11:49:00 p.m.(EDT)
The user at the above-identified IP address, using the screen name Tyler@KaZaA, has offered for download through the online media distribution system known as KaZaA copyrighted sound recordings owned by RIAA member record companies, including the following representative recordings:
Michelle Branch - All You Wanted
Avril Lavigne - Complicated
Radiohead - Just
Incubus - Nice to Know You
Busta Rhymes - Pass the Courvoisier
Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun
Incubus - Stellar
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
A PERFECT CIRCLE - Three Libras