Let's see the RIAA shut these guys down!!!

[Rick Myers]

www.earthstation5.com

Forget Napster. The newest place to steal -- sorry, "share" -- copyrighted materials is Earthstation 5. They claim 22 million downloads of their software, offer digital copies of movies still in the theaters, and boast that no one will be able to shut them down. They may have a point.

They're located in the Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank.

You can imagine the discussions in the Recording Industry Association of America's legal office: "You serve them with papers." "No, YOU serve them." (Pause) "OK, we'll send an intern."

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A pair of entrepreneurs in a Palestinian refugee camp have set up a
file-sharing network using an app called Earthstation 5 that has been
downloaded over 22 million times and has been translated into more than a
dozen languages, including Turkish and Chinese. The app has a bunch of
legal attack-resistance included in its design and deployment, though it
remains to be seen how hard it really is to figure out who's using the app
to share what.

"We're in Palestine, in a refugee camp," said Ras Kabir, the service's
co-founder. "There aren't too many process servers that are going to be
coming into the Jenin refugee camp. We'll welcome them if they do."

(more)

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/dmca-activists/2003-08/msg00002.html

on edit: the software even supports video and audio chat AND can be used as a long distance phone service!!!

[wtmusic]

1. The RIAA is gonna need some cruise missiles

or one of them fancy bulldozers.

[Jacobin]

2. I'm sure that for a small "contribution"

Sharon will arrange to have a bulldozer appear.

They don't use process servers much there.