+Fulcrum Subscriber¹ Posted August 20, 2002 Subscriber¹ Share Posted August 20, 2002 Information Wave Technologies has announced it will actively deny the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) from accessing the contents of its network. Earlier this year, the RIAA announced its new plan to access computers without owner's consent for the sake of protecting its assets. Information Wave believes this policy puts its customers at risk of unintentional damage, corporate espionage, and invasion of privacy to say the least. Due to the nature of this matter and RIAA's previous history, we feel the RIAA will abuse software vulerabilities in a client's browser after the browser accesses its site, potentially allowing the RIAA to access and/or tamper with your data. Starting at midnight on August 19, 2002, Information Wave customers will no longer be able to reach the RIAA's web site. Information Wave will also actively seek out attempts by the RIAA to thwart this policy and apply additional filters to protect our customers' data. Information Wave will also deploy peer-to-peer clients on the Gnutella network from its security research and development network (honeynet) which will offer files with popular song titles derived from the Billboard Top 100 maintained by VNU eMedia. No copyright violations will take place, these files will merely have arbitrary sizes similar to the length of a 3 to 4 minute MP3 audio file encoded at 128kbps. Clients which connect to our peer-to-peer clients, and then afterwards attempt to illegally access the network will be immediately blacklisted from Information Wave's network. The data collected will be actively maintained and distributed from our network operations site. The placement of this policy is not intended to hamper the RIAA's piracy elimination agenda or advocate Internet piracy, but to ensure the safety of our customers' data attached to our network from hackers or corporate espionage hidden by the veil of RIAA copyright enforcement. If you have questions, comments, or concerns regarding this policy, please e-mail riaa@informationwave.net. http://www.informationwave.net/news/20020819riaa.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyy4 Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Good move... now if all the ISP's will follow suit... RIAA: Get this through your thick skull: You don't own my freakin' data!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Lol how ironic is it that the RIAA is trying to make ISPs block access to mp3 sites?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 I think RIAA is trying to bring a form of communism to to the internet :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonWebb Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 actually, i think it's the opposite... i'd say the internet is like communism, but the RIAA wants us to pay, like captalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steak XP Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 omg that is so lame :mad: what next soon they will want to own your soul and register is under there name ? RIAA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BardoGuy7 Posted August 20, 2002 Share Posted August 20, 2002 Originally posted by Ash Lol how ironic is it that the RIAA is trying to make ISPs block access to mp3 sites?!?! lol. v ironic indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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