RIAA subpoenas ISPs
Posted by Sleeper on 21 July 2003 - 08:20 · 20 comments & 4138 views
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#1 Posted by session™ on 21 Jul 2003 - 08:22
- oh gosh. stop already stupid riaa
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#2 Posted by DsnBehind on 21 Jul 2003 - 08:23
- Die RIAA! Die, Die, Die a horrible, painful death from which there is no escape.
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#3 Posted by DJ Prem on 21 Jul 2003 - 09:02
- Kill those RIAA bastrards, y dont the person do DoS attacks on Neowin to that for RIAA that would be more fun or even wipe all the machines.
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#4 Posted by cpugeni on 21 Jul 2003 - 09:51
- D/Heads!
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#5 Posted by edgrale on 21 Jul 2003 - 09:57
- I sure would like to be a lawyer working for thr RIAA, work guaranteed
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#6 Posted by ^_^ Silly Willy on 21 Jul 2003 - 10:56
- I Guess they'll have to go after all the people who recorded radio with cassette tapes as well.
They should focus on the people who actually sell illegal music.
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#7 Posted by snippet1 on 21 Jul 2003 - 11:20
- Make the music cheaper in the first place and then people wouldn't need to download it. Damn RIAA, Damn ARIA!!!!
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#8 Posted by Nichotin on 21 Jul 2003 - 11:41
- i thought laws were designed to protect what the average man would consider right or wrong
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#8.1 Posted by noll3095 on 21 Jul 2003 - 12:21
- The average man can't afford to buy their own politicians.
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#8.2 Posted by JaggedFlame on 21 Jul 2003 - 15:13
- I'm sure the average man would consider stealing music marginally wrong. But it's so easy to do that a lot of people don't care.
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#9 Posted by Fanon on 21 Jul 2003 - 13:19
- All the RIAA has to do is stop, take a look at the opprotunity, and sell MP3s for cheap. But, of course, they won't. They know they cannot feasibly charge $15 for 10 songs that you download, so they're gonna stick to the CD format.
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#10 Posted by zerolimit on 21 Jul 2003 - 15:22
- Thing is everyone will download no matter what. RIAA just wants people to stop so they will sue who ever gets in their way or doesn't listen to them. So nothing will stop RIAA all they really want is $$$$$$$$ and they wont stop till they get it!
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#11 Posted by Trust on 21 Jul 2003 - 15:37
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RIAA subpoenas ISPs
They wanna stop p2p?... Now?...
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#12 Posted by YaddaMe on 21 Jul 2003 - 16:24
- http://www.amishdonkey.com/riaa.php
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#13 Posted by quanta on 21 Jul 2003 - 20:01
- Boy, the RIAA is doing a great job. Don't they just make you feel proud and want to go down to the music store and buy CDs? Or not.
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#14 Posted by nic on 21 Jul 2003 - 20:14
- i knew from the beginning it would come to this. I don't think P2P would be such an illegal sespool if the RIAA would have done this from the beginning instead of taking on Napster and other owned networks.
But lets face it, these "cheap" pay per song sites won't happen if everything can be just as easily downloaded for free.
I feel that at the end of the day, if a cheap alternative comes around, it will be better for the consumer and the artist. (say like 50 cents to a buck a song...i'd pay that)
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#14.1 Posted by roadwarrior on 22 Jul 2003 - 02:34
- Apple has that right now, but you have to have a Mac to use it
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#15 Posted by kljs on 22 Jul 2003 - 01:57
- well, just don't buy anything. Let the RIAA feel outcasted.....
it might work.
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#16 Posted by cannhawk on 22 Jul 2003 - 03:27
- The RIAA is keeping all the money. The artist is getting none of it.
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#17 Posted by helloalexb on 22 Jul 2003 - 03:32
- DIE RIAA DIE......HOPE ALL OF UR COMPS JUST BECOME THE NEXT VICTOM OF SOME SPECIAL RIAA WORM....OR SUMTHING THAT STOPS ALL OF THER SOFTWARE hey thers an idea....calling all Hackers and virus makers attack the RIAA b4 they attack you......and i hope a big riot brakes out in front of ther building and ppl going crazy and then the whole COMP is doomed ...and i want also all the artist that want P2P gone to all of a sudden....stop making money THAT MEANS U MODONA......stupid biznatch.....sorry ppl i am prolly not making sence right now...
just a little mad at ppl like the RIAA 
ohh pleas no one make a reply to what i am saying b/c uhh....not talking relisticly here ...more like a fantisy or a bad B movie LOL....when SONY gone bad..... 
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has begun to tighten the screws on hundreds of users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems in the US.
It has issued subpoenas to internet service providers (ISPs) in the US to force them to identify customers who are illegally sharing copyrighted music over networks like Kazaa.
The RIAA, the US music recording industry's leading trade body, announced in June that it would use scanning software to find P2P users. Additional information freely available on the sites is then used to identify the user's ISP.
Under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ISPs must provide copyright holders with such information when there is reason to believe copyrights are being infringed. The RIAA can then sue the individual.
"This should not come as a surprise to anyone," said a RIAA spokeswoman. "Filing information subpoenas is exactly what we said we'd do a couple of weeks ago when we announced that we were gathering evidence to file lawsuits."
The clampdown has already started to take effect. Loyola University in Chicago has handed over to RIAA lawyers the names of two students alleged to have downloaded music files from P2P sites.