RIAA is getting smarter

[aeallison]

Originally posted here by MemorY


if the court system approves this ..then the system is really fuc*d up and we have morons as heads of our system ....

I thought the heads of our legal system are morons, that is why they sue adolescents who really don't know any better. That will just make our young people grow up to hate society, and the system, eventually leading this country into civil unrest, and possibly a revolutionary/vigilantic order that the system will never be able to control.

They need to pull their heads out of their ass's and look towards our future, not line their pockets with childrens allowence money. This is just my personal opinion that I am sure they don't give a rats ass about.

[nihil]

Hi Guys & Gals,

Now I know that this is going to shock a lot of you, but apart from being a boring old fart, I also happen to be a very talented and sensitive artistic type, who writes music for a living.

I have about 1000 original creations ( all my own work) on my PC in MP3 format, but because I know absolutely nothing about PCs and security..........I have not backed them up.........but I have a great number of friends who know about them..........Government Ministers, Church Leaders, prominent lawers and the like.

Then these scum unleash something that wipes off all this work because my nine year old happens to surf the wrong place.

Hello RIAA............that is FIVE BILLION £GBP.................and I want all your executives fired NOW. So that they can serve their time.

I am as paranoid as most.............I think that the RIAA are cunning...............not stupid?

I love a good conspiracy theory like we all do This one does not really hold up. Anyway, they are trying to entrap, rather than eliminate at this stage?

Just a few thoughts..............get composing folks

Cheers

[ShagDevil]

Here's an old article on exactly what you're talking about. This was of May though. I wonder what (if anything), the RIAA has planned for the future.

A more malicious program, dubbed "freeze," locks up a computer system for a certain duration — minutes or possibly even hours — risking the loss of data that was unsaved if the computer is restarted. It also displays a warning about downloading pirated music. Another program under development, called "silence," scans a computer's hard drive for pirated music files and attempts to delete them. One of the executives briefed on the silence program said that it did not work properly and was being reworked because it was deleting legitimate music files, too

Full Article Here

[DruidStorm]

http://www.eff.org/

An excellent way to see if you've made the RIAA future suit list. Make sure all user names are submitted. Also a very informative site.

[tonybradley]

Has anybody thought of starting a fund to fight these guys? I mean couldn't we sell an item, then pay these said fines. Like the two grand they settled with that 12 year old girl. Kind of like selling to Peter to pay Paul. An ultimate screw you.

Great idea- but the peer-to-peer industry beat you to it. P2P United, composed of Grokster, Morpheus' parent company and others stepped in to pay the $2000 fine for the girl.

She claimed to believe that it was legal because she paid for the Kazaa Plus client or something like that if I understand correctly. In other words, she knew it was illegal in and of itself, but was somehow under the impression that because she paid money it made it legal.

There is a blog entry on my site with links to the article about the 12-year old girl as well as the article about the P2P industry paying the fine. There is also some stuff about how the RIAA is playing the child porn trump card. Basically, they can't get congress or the people to agree that P2P is evil for sharing MP3's, so they have started pushing information about how P2P is a major source of child porn to try and play on sympathies and anger about that to get people on their side against the P2P world. Here is a link to the blog entry: RIAA Using Every Trick Possible

[Syini666]

I hate to sound like a pesimist, but can the p2p community actually win agianst the RIAA? I mean yes there are some companies backing the movement, but are they enough when compared financially to the RIAA? It doesnt appear that much of anything has managed to slow down, or even stop the RIAA in their pursuit of filesharers and p2p in general. As someone I was talking to on IRC said, its the great filesharing war of 2003, and it looks like both sides have dug themselves in for a long haul.

Does anyone here have some good sources of financial info about the P2P United group and the RIAA for a comparison of them?

[jxrry59]

if the court system approves this ..then the system is really fuc*d up and we have morons as heads of our system ....

i thought this was a given but someone , in another thread, please give them credit for it if you remember it , said we need to take them (riaa) and the way to do that is to stop buying music that supports them, let their funds dry up and let them fade way AND LETS HAVE A SYSTEM THAT REWARDS THE MUSICIANS WE LISTEN TO. until then there is p2p but we need to do everything we can to encourage musicians to produce, not the parasites that feed off them

[Szafran]

I owuld recommend ROXIO GoBACK, if you double click on a song and it does nothing, then you notice that your music is gone, i would just do a goback to before the execution of that song.

[tonybradley]

I have done this already. There are some CD's I want because I love the songs- but I refuse to buy them. I also refuse to stoop to obtaining them illegally through P2P. That is not how I choose to make my statement.

As much as I don't support the RIAA or their tactics, it doesn't make illegal file sharing legal and I don't want to go there.

You can record songs off the radio if you want a copy to play over and over. There is also a way to capture streaming audio (i.e. "Internet radio") and save it as MP3 as well. So, there are alternative means to buying the CD AND to "stealing" the songs using P2P.

[rcgreen]

How about anti-RIAA shirts?

Already got them

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/membership.php


http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=boycottriaa