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The story about the Penn State astronomy department's "usher.mp3" file would be funny if it weren't so scary. In a society where we are supposedly "innocent until proven guilty" the RIAA is assuming in its draconian dragnet, that anyone that has a file that conincidentally has a similar sounding name to something they are "protecting" that it is a target for threatened legal action. Even though the case didn't make it to court, the faculty had to spend time away from academic pursuits to "explain" their perfectly legal activities and defend themsleves against the RIAA legal-action leviathion.
The letter on the site which asks if the artists on the "free" CD that the RIAA sent to "compensate" the school got any compensation themselves raises a good point. I'd be willing to bet that the RIAA didn't give the artists a sliver of a cent, even though they use the lack of paid royalties issue as a rationale for going after so-called "pirates" who trade files online (which is what they were mistakenly accusing those using the school's network of doing) .
Burke
What you DON'T say may be held against you...
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Interesting outcome of the lawsuit and it's getting better.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/03/16/ri...lahoma_mother/... -
RIAA wants $$$ from ISPs for music swapping
Should ISPs and telecoms be responsible?
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posted 12:48pm EST Mon Jan 20 2003 - submitted by Thomas
NEWS
Hillary Rosen, chair of the Recording... -
More like an authentication seal that does nothing more than identify real and "fake" product.
read on...
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For the 7th time in about 6 months, the RIAA.org (Recording Industry Association of America) website has been hacked into and defaced. Under the "News" heading on their page, the regular news was replaced with a text message lambasting the RIAA for, "(wanting) to hack Filesharing Users...
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Methinks if this continues....it will start blowing up in RIAA's face (if it hasn't already).
From InternetWeek http://www.internetweek.com/security...cleID=14700550
"A RONSTER!" ...
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