Record labels send out notices to file sharers [new tactic]

[truthisfreedom]

in an effort to keep the once neutral acronym RIAA from turning into "recording industry arrogant a**holes," new tactics are being used to intimidate and threaten song-downloading children from "destroying evidence" or downloading any further material.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7044640.htm
Posted on Sat, Oct. 18, 2003


Record labels send out notices to file sharers
RIAA GIVES OPTION TO SETTLE BEFORE IT FILES SUIT
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Mercury News

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The notices represent a new approach for the RIAA, which was criticized in September after it sued 261 people for copyright infringement. Defendants included a 12-year-old in New York, a Texas grandfather and a 66-year-old retired school teacher in Boston, who was awakened by a process server banging on her door in the middle of the night.

``The RIAA was suing first, asking questions later. You should try to work it out without invoking the power of the federal court,'' said Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet civil liberties group in San Francisco. ``I'm glad they've taken me up on my suggestion.''

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Robert Andris, a partner in the Ropers Majeski law firm in Redwood City, said the industry is sending cease-and-desist letters to prevent Congress from cracking down on its anti-piracy tactics.

``If there was enough of a public backlash against filing suits against these direct infringers, these file swappers, Congress could sit down and say `we'll write an exception,' which would be horrible for the record industry,'' Andris said.

[Zech Marquis]

1. no need for Kazaa anymore kids

http://www.apple.com/ipod

Unless you're really hard up on WMP files :eyes: here's your answer in iTunes for Windows. The other ones don't even come close.

[OKNancy]

3. Now that Windows is supported

I might be interested. If anyone has used this.....do they have classical and oldies available? All the ads are for current releases.

[Zech Marquis]

4. there's a huge classical music section

let me launch it real quick...man, you have to download iTunes for Windows and just see it yourself--Mozart, Verdi, Beethoven, huge sections on the different classical music eras...very impressive. I'm playing the 30 secind sample for his 7th Symphony in A Major--okay I have no idea what that means, but the sample sounded really good :evilgrin: Oldies and current releases, even alot of prerelease stuff too.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. I wonder...

When the artists are going to catch a clue and start speaking up, en masse, for their best friends, their fans?

C'mon you guys! Get the glue bag offn' yer' noses!!!

[BloodyWilliam]

5. Heh... Kazaa?

There are more methods of pirating on heaven and earth than dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio. :evilgrin:

Kazaa is today's Napster. It's the most well-known, but it's hardly the most efficient or effective way of getting illicit material. There are still IRC channels and servers dedicated to this, Bit Torrent trackers (amazing for finding specific bands or TV shows), numerous other file sharing networks...

Kazaa (which might be going commercial soon anyway) is just the tip of the iceburg. And networks like Gnutella and methods like Bit Torrent have absolutely NO centralized core. All clients and servers are developed by individuals who release them into the public, letting them work together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Mobile networks, in the truest sense.

[LifeDuringWartime]

6. gotta love the live music

go to the live audio section of www.archive.org. thousands of recordings from live performances, and its all free and legal! try www.furthurnet.com too.

[Kitsune]

7. recording industry arrogant assholes?

haha, I have to remember that one.