RIAA Hit List

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The subpoenas are flying, and we're naming names. Are you on the list?

The recording industry has launched a sweeping effort to identify and shut down individual song swappers, making good on recent threats to expand its legal battle against copyright theft. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has now issued more than 911 subpoenas to Internet service providers across the United States, trying to get the names of people still offering music on file-sharing networks such as KaZaA and Grokster.

Today, "Tech Live" brings you the RIAA Hit List, the user names of file traders targeted in the recording industry subpoenas. Last month, we brought you the story of Jesse Jordan, a 19-year-old college student who became one of the first to be hit with a lawsuit by the RIAA. Jordan settled his case by paying $12,000 to the RIAA.

The following user names were culled from subpoenas filed with the US District Court in Washington, DC. All subpoenas, incidentally, are being served by the Los Angeles law firm of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp. A total of 253 RIAA subpoenas were listed as of July 22 through the federal court system's paid online database, PACER. The actual subpoenas are available to view online in about half the cases.

News source: TechTV

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#1 dukefan21 on 24 Jul 2003 - 04:49

The Kazaa Lite username could be many people

(2 replies) #2 McFly on 24 Jul 2003 - 05:00

Guess we don't need to clear out all of the pending cases before dumping all of these into the court system...ya know, rapists, murderers, etc. Who cares! We've got song-swappers to destroy!

#2.1 cold on 24 Jul 2003 - 12:53

Ha!, amen to that

#2.2 AaronGamer on 24 Jul 2003 - 21:55

QUOTE (#2.0)

i agree totally!

#3 IntelliMoo on 24 Jul 2003 - 05:06

Wow, sue a trader, and lose all possible future generation business from the trader's descendants.. LOL Good deal, riaa!

#4 drewster2100 on 24 Jul 2003 - 05:12

gosh, maybe i should change my name from ****RIAAINTHEIR****INGASSESTHOSE****INGASSHOLEPRICKS@kazzalite.com ... lol

(4 replies) #5 sputnik on 24 Jul 2003 - 05:15

HAHAHA last username on the list:

www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa

try finding out who this particular person is...

#5.1 gosh on 24 Jul 2003 - 05:21

The full article says the RIAA has info such as ip address, name, etc. TechTV just decided to list only the kazaa usernames.

-gosh

#5.2 episode on 24 Jul 2003 - 05:29

The point is that that username is the default kazaalite username.

#5.3 lucasvanos on 24 Jul 2003 - 06:30

Yeah, everyone should keep the default username. At least that's a bit confusing to them.

#5.4 helloalexb on 24 Jul 2003 - 18:53

well it would help a little but once they have ur IP address and ISP its all over

#6 CraigMack on 24 Jul 2003 - 05:34

Lemme get this straight, if im connected to the internet but not running kazaa, could i still be a target for the RIAA??? Thanks for the followups getting sued sucks

#7 tHaCuBe on 24 Jul 2003 - 05:44

if u use p2p its possible, but just use kazaalite k++, ban the riaa ips and stuff

(2 replies) #8 scoult01 on 24 Jul 2003 - 05:45

still the record industry doesnt understand that cd prices are too expensive... they deserve to be ripped off (not sure if this is coherant, just woke up)

#8.1 Jstphish on 24 Jul 2003 - 13:53

But you have to remember, when you download a song for free you screw the artist too. The major labels don't just scew the consumers they screw the artist and everyone they can think of just to make more money because they are insanely greedy. Money is crap; they just haven't realized it yet.

#8.2 Starcom826 on 24 Jul 2003 - 18:44

You also have to remember that the artists dont get much money, most of it goes to the record labels. They accuse file-swappers of screwing over the artists when it really is the record labels and such. Plus, shouldn't the artists own the copyrights and not the mega corporations? The artists should sue if they feel necessary, not the RIAA on their "behalf."

#9 tagler on 24 Jul 2003 - 05:55

use emule if you are going to use anything...

i stopped downloading everthing, (for now) untill we see what comes of all this

(6 replies) #10 Cristanu on 24 Jul 2003 - 06:24

Many female names on that list. It's 'good' this happens in the US, other parts of the world practice hand or feet shortening for stealing. All RIAA wants is for school kids to go outside and play instead of swapping songs, funny how they target in both time table and methods.

#10.1 Gary_Player on 24 Jul 2003 - 06:57

...You gotta b fkin kidding me...

#10.2 jb10fan on 24 Jul 2003 - 15:25

If you died of a horrible accident, right now, it would be "good" that it happened.

#10.3 Cristanu on 24 Jul 2003 - 19:20

muahaaahaha, it's vacation man - kids are out of school, riaa threatens them with suing the a$$ of whom shares "many mp3's" - later seeing it doesn't work, they come up with a lawsuit against someone who shared 8 songs. That's got to scare some ppl. I mean I'm not pro riaa, come one, noone teach you yet to get a joke or detect sarcasm? All I see re riaa and thei actions is ppl or kids who don't know where they mouth might take them, who make threatening mindless remarks that might land them in trouble. What riaa does could be totally wrong, Jako agrees, but you don't have to be an idiot and get in trouble just because you don't know how to control or express your feelings.

#10.4 Cristanu on 24 Jul 2003 - 19:23

QUOTE (#10.2)

ummmm, kindergarten dropout? That's 'good'!

#10.5 jb10fan on 24 Jul 2003 - 23:28

Okay, it would be 'good' that it happened. Happy now?

#10.6 Scorched on 24 Jul 2003 - 23:58

Never correct yourself! It's the same as admitting you were wrong.

#11 xpablo on 24 Jul 2003 - 06:44

$12,000 thats nuts, I would fight them in court, screw their lawsuits and also what's going to happen with all this money ? the real victim of song swapping is the artist
and do you think the artists are going to see a red cent of that $12,000 & more ?

RIAA TO ARTIST :

Here's your share Madonna , Mr XXX downloaded 4 of your songs which entitles you to .40cents of the settlement.

More like lawyers see $8,000 the RIAA gets the rest.

(1 reply) #12 Kashida on 24 Jul 2003 - 06:59

O well until this madness ends I will not buy a single music album...or go to a concert. The RIAA can go to hell for screwing the artists and the fans!

#12.1 helloalexb on 24 Jul 2003 - 18:55

agree

(3 replies) #13 theh0g on 24 Jul 2003 - 07:43

$12.000?! I rather hire a hitman or some taliban to destroy RIAA employees than pay. Cheaper

#13.1 sodapop on 24 Jul 2003 - 08:50

Better watch it, GW Bush don't like talk like that. You could find yourself sitting in a cell at Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

#13.2 MR_Candyman on 24 Jul 2003 - 17:33

umm...u ever been there? it's really nice...so saying that's like saying "you'd better watch it or they'll force you to live in paradise"

#13.3 helloalexb on 24 Jul 2003 - 18:56

buts its jail and pres bush is an ass so he would probly do some stupid thing like that.....JEBUS look what the us has to deal with the RIAA and stupid ass BUSH

#14 idbuythatforadollar on 24 Jul 2003 - 10:57

where is this list? i cant find it!

#15 [source] on 24 Jul 2003 - 13:10

Ban the RIAA and any affiliated Co.s or Org.s......gotta love peer guardian

(2 replies) #16 jb10fan on 24 Jul 2003 - 15:27

If bands knew anything, they would disband themselves from the RIAA, the juliana theory, one of my favorite bands, publicly said that they were happy people were getting to hear the album before it came out, and they are signed through sony/epic. need mroe bands like that that arent money grubbing whores.

#16.1 nookadum on 24 Jul 2003 - 16:17

So did Evanescence too.

#16.2 helloalexb on 24 Jul 2003 - 18:58

really HOT love that band.,.....but i have a the cd :sigh:

#17 Sawyer12 on 24 Jul 2003 - 17:24

"Jordan settled his case by paying $12,000 to the RIAA." - By that they mean a bribe

(1 reply) #18 MR_Candyman on 24 Jul 2003 - 17:31

what scares me is I recognise quite a few names on the list....

#18.1 helloalexb on 24 Jul 2003 - 18:59

yea but then some are probly names that a lot of other ppl use

(1 reply) #19 ZeroXero on 24 Jul 2003 - 17:35

The RIAA sells CD's at 3 times what they should, and when students cant afford it they sue them for downloading it. Great justice system. In the words of Pennywise 'It's all Greed'.

- ZX

#19.1 Starcom826 on 24 Jul 2003 - 18:48

Of course they do, CDs used to have fierce competition. Prices dropped below $10 and were still going down. Then the industry decided to band together and go on a price hike, sorta like the OAPEC.

#20 helloalexb on 24 Jul 2003 - 18:59

RIAA GO SUCK monkey balls! wow that last name tho......that doesnt help at all

(1 reply) #21 kowcop on 24 Jul 2003 - 20:03

anyone have a list of RIAA IPs so we can add them to firewalls?

#21.1 Sawyer12 on 24 Jul 2003 - 20:27

wouldnt someone who had them get banned for putting them on here

they were posted a while back if i remember correctly

#22 Ruciz on 24 Jul 2003 - 21:13

where did their list go?

#23 Trust on 24 Jul 2003 - 22:45

f*ck RIAA

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