TechAmok

[topicmaker]

According to the RIAA, Youtube and Google Video are the newest way to share music illegally . The
RIAA's served Youtube several cease-and-desist letters to remove content that users have uploaded.
Currently, the labels are policing Youtube and other sites on their own. Their efforts in removing
the content has proved to h...read more

[devilhood]

yet another playground for the RIAA.
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Here's a big-ass list of things the RIAA screwed up in 2005:

- Disabled women and single mothers representing themselves in court after being sued by RIAA.

- The Attorney General of New York, Elliot Spitzer is issuing subpoenas after RIAA puts pressure on iTunes for selling songs too cheaply. The RIAA is also starting to hassle satellite radio.

- Suing 67 year old grandfather for $600,000 for something a 12 year old did on his computer.

- RIAA praises SONY for putting rootkits on their music CDs that infected tons of consumers opening their computers to attack from the Internet. SONY quickly retreating from this behavior.

- Oregon woman counter sues RIAA under Organised Crime RICO Statutes.

- RIAA staging police raids on store selling unlabeled garage band CDs.
RIAA coaching 15 year old witness trying to coerce her to change her deposition.

- MPA/RIAA going after sites that have song lyrics and tablature? What next? Are phrases going to be outlawed for public use. No kids named ‘Jude’, no storing ‘Toys in the Attic’, electricians can no longer use the words AC/DC? Yes I know this is the MPA doing this, but they are all the little brothers of the RIAA in spirit, watching to see what they can get away with.

- RIAA going after all gadgets that can play music to make sure they are locked down. Even going after things which don’t even exist yet!

- A hilarious parental guide for safe MP3 downloading. Makes you wonder when are they going after USENET?

- RIAA now taking on whole countries. When NASA beams music into space to the astronauts for wakeup calls, is that illegal because some alien culture may intercept the transmission a few millenia from now?

- MPA (RIAA’s little sister) trying to limit distribution of an independent film about itself (the MPA) by giving it a NC-17 rating, which took the place of the ‘X’ rating in films.

- Courtney Love explaining in succinct detail why the record labels are greedy asses. And their rather lame response.

- Follow the money blurb about RIAA lawyer salaries that probably explains why they don’t care that they are being cast as the anti-christ incarnate.


After reading through some of those you’ve got to ask what’s next? Drowning puppies that happen to be sitting near a computer that has P2P software installed?

[devilhood]

*flash related joke* sounds like a job for Mr. Stabby.
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