RIAA Subpoenas

[SAJChurchey]

RIAA won 871 subpoenas the other day to search for illegal mp3s.  Thankfully, KaZaA Lite released their new version which blocks Governemtn and RIAA-related IPs.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2003/07/18/financial1648EDT0138.DTL

Here is a real journalist's reaction:

 

quote:
Another view point on things.

The snide and bitchy and uber-paranoid and increasingly desperate music
industry has won at least 871 federal subpoenas against computer users
suspected of illegally sharing music files on the Internet, with
roughly
75 new subpoenas being approved each day. In response to these whiny
antiquated litigious suckwads, roughly 10,000 jaded teenagers who are
far, far smarter than any pathetic little lawsuit are right this minute
working on hacker technology that will anonymize users and encrypt
identities and make files untraceable and allow millions to continue to
share music over the Net because despite the RIAA's screechy little
protests because the technology is already outpacing the industry and
they are simply increasingly desperate to cling to their failing and
outdated business models whereby they ream you and their own artists on
almost every possible front and blame the consumer for every
shortcoming, when in fact it's their own goddamn resistance to change
and desperate need to scrape every dollar from you that keeps them from
figuring out new ways to make a profit. Just another industry you
thought was moderately cool and hip given its product, but which turns
out to be vicious and megacorporate and money-drunk, just like all the
rest.

[Fett101]

I didn't think real journalists used the word "suckwad".

[flap]

Nor do they write single sentences this long:

 

quote:In response to these whiny antiquated litigious suckwads, roughly 10,000 jaded teenagers who are far, far smarter than any pathetic little lawsuit are right this minute working on hacker technology that will anonymize users and encrypt identities and make files untraceable and allow millions to continue to share music over the Net because despite the RIAA's screechy little protests because the technology is already outpacing the industry and they are simply increasingly desperate to cling to their failing and outdated business models whereby they ream you and their own artists on almost every possible front and blame the consumer for every shortcoming, when in fact it's their own goddamn resistance to change and desperate need to scrape every dollar from you that keeps them from figuring out new ways to make a profit.

[ July 21, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]

[Laukev7]

I don't know if he's a real journalist, but he certainly does voice his opinion.

[suselinux]

I hope the RIAA subpoenas a small ISP that uses a 10 page privacy contract with its customers,that hopefully debunks the stupid law allowing the subpoenas in the first place

Can an American subpoena force a foreign ISP to give up names?

[Fett101]

quote:Originally posted by suselinux:
Can an American subpoena force a foreign ISP to give up names?

Wouldno't think so. But they couldn't use the US law against them(one making it illegal to have copywrited materials sitting oround where someone can download it), so it'd be of little use.