The RIAA's Hit List Named

Carpoolio writes "TechTV is the first I've seen to name names in the fight between the RIAA and music downloaders. Using an online court records search service, they've found a number of the subpoenas served by the RIAA to ISPs, which will ultimately end in lawsuits for the people named on this list. Right now, they've published a number of the P2P user names filed with the US District Court in Washington, DC, mainly Kazaa users. Are you on the list?"

phew.

[Anonymous Coward]

kazaaliteuser@Kazaa isn't on there! I was really worried for a second.

kazaaliteuser@Kazaa vs. RIAA

RIAA: Please disclose any and all information about kazaaliteuser@Kazaa to us!

Comcast: Um, we're @comcast.net and @attbi.com, sorry.

RIAA: YOU'RE ALL AGAINST US!

Oh man!

[Jacer]

My name is up there! I'm screwed...

So File Swappers *are* Terrorists

[jpetts]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has now issued more than 911 subpoenas

Reckon the RIAA's trying to make a point here?

This guy...

[blackmonday]

I hereby give my blessing to anyone who wants to sue a guy with the balls to be known as: hottdude0587@Kazaa.

Now what?

[tedDancin]

What are we all going to do now that 100% of the people actually sharing files have been named? (:

Oh no!

[cliffy2000]

Joan Jett is going to jail! "joanjett@Kazaa"

Re:Oh man!

[jc42]

Sob! I'm not there! How could they have missed me?

Oh. All the "names" end with @Kazaa. I don't use kazaa.

Never mind.

Re:This guy...

[Anonymous Coward]

I've always been tempted to call myself "Whiffles the Wonder Pig" just to see them try to keep a straight face when they say, "Joe Smith, alias Whiffles the Wonder Pig, approach the bench!"

Re:Oh man!

[Anonymous Coward]

So are you munkeyspanker21@Kazaa or Ghettobootybabe8@Kazaa?

(You only have yourself to blame for this).

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Whew! Dodged a bullet!

[Anonymous Coward]

> munkeyspanker21@Kazaa

Whew! Thank God I'm only munkeyspanker19@Kazaa.

Re:Interesting that

[Anonymous Coward]

Whoever has the IP address they pick owes billions for all the other anonymous cowards who could not pick an original nick.

--
busy renaming my mp3 file extention to fu2

My name's not on the list

[NetDanzr]

Not surprising, though. After all, it's the RIAA that's suing, not the porn industry.

Brilliant business plan..

[kwertii]

• 1. Sue your customers, and make a bunch of penniless college kids into martyrs in the media.
• 2.
• 3. PROFIT!!!!

Re:Oh man!

[BadSpellar]

munkeyspanker21@Kazaa

I'm not sure which is more disturbing: The name itself, or the fact that more than one person uses it.

Re:True Names

[InterruptDescriptorT]

like, what was he downloading when the bombs were dropping on Iraq?

Perhaps it was You Dropped A Bomb On Me [angelfire.com], by the Gap Band? :-)

RIAA sucks dong

[CanadaDave]

I'm not on there! My username is kazaalite@Kazaa. Haha, RIAA suckers!

Legit names

[mrpuffypants]

I'm suprised that people actually use "real" usernames for kazaa...when I use it do download my gigs of pr0n I alwsy have a username like sfg0dfgaheow4$%#$T3g35^%h45@Kazaa just because I don't need anybody wondering why "mrpuffypants" really needs that college cam video forthe nth time...

Re:Interesting that

[ArsonSmith]

I can see it now:

Bailiff: would munkeyspanker21 please take the stand
please place your right....errr uhhh....left hand here.

hehe

Re:Interesting that

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope CourTV covers the cases when they finally go after irc file traders.

"All rise for the case in the matter of the RIAA vs. H0RNYCOCKINYERASS69"

Re:Oh man!

[ArsonSmith]

yea and why did they skip munkeyspanker1-20 and go right to 21?

Re:This guy...

[stratjakt]

Whiffles the wonder pig?

You must be just DYING to be anally raped in prison.

Muahaha i thought of a wicked idea.

[recondite]

If everybody on kazaa used a user name like riaasucks@kazaa or riaaisacriminalorganization@kazaa or this_is_a_bullshit_court_cast@kazaa you know they wouldn't pick you. imagine the news coverge, even better the day in court. I would like to call riaaisabunchoffaggots@kazaa to the stand.

Re:Always referred to as theft

[Dave2 Wickham]

Damn, I've got pen all over my screen now :(

Re:This guy...

[tds67]

I hereby give my blessing to anyone who wants to sue a guy with the balls to be known as: hottdude0587@Kazaa.

Yeah, what a pansy...makes me glad my nickname is hottdude0588@Kazaa.

Reserved addresses...

[stienman]

"A total of 253 RIAA subpoenas were listed as of July 22 through the federal court system's paid online database, PACER."

Subpeonas 0 and 255 are reserved for networks (whole ISPs - all your user list are belong to us) and broadcast subpeonas (first use of SPAMMED Subpeonas) respectively.

-Adam

Sounds Bad...

[BadSpellar]

The RIAA's Hit List

That sounds so nasty. I bet some would prefer "The Pirate's Honor Roll".

Re:Brilliant business plan..

[Traa]

I thought the RIAA was more like

1. PROFIT!!!
2.
3. Sue your customers, and make a bunch of penniless college kids into matryrs in the media.

Re:Why don't they just put up tip jars?

[evilempireinc]

I can see it now: 'We are keeping 60% of the donations to pay for the cost of taking donations'

NO!

[Sk8BoyBen]

Oh Shit!

Re:NO!

[Bency-987]

My mom is going to be so mad!

Re:Why don't they just put up tip jars?

[Doom Ihl' Varia]

60% That's a little low for the RIAA. Make it 117%. Actually charge the artist.

Re:Phew!!!!

[SuperDuG]

Actually ... if you were getting screwed ... you wouldn't need kazaa's sharing of the porn industries files ...

Re:Brilliant business plan..

[Kompressor]

Only in Soviet...

Meh, screw it...

Re:Oh man!

[Anonymous Coward]

munkeyspanker8 who we already know sells burned music CD's on ebay, is a leach. Leaches are OK since they're helping to kill p2p.

munkeyspanker17, while having a large collection of kiddy porn, was not sharing any RIAA-label music. We're only after real criminals here..

The others weren't logged on at the time. We only logged on briefly since we didn't want to draw the attention of the MPAA who will be conducting their own witchhunt next week..

suddenly

[hpavc]

suddenly i feel so safe with 'ashcroft@kazaa'.

Re:Oh man!

[jayayeem]

do you think there are 20 people using Kazaa that aren't sharing copyrighted files? Funny that they all use the variations on the name 'munkeyspanker.' I am pretty sure I don't want to see any of the files those people are sharing.

They must set the sticky bit on all their directories.

When you all get arrested...

[Anonymous Coward]

...will there still be Kazaa left? I still need to download a dozen of songs and a movie.

Re:Oh man!

[Loki_1929]

" yea and why did they skip munkeyspanker1-20 and go right to 21?"

Because munkeyspankers 1 - 20 restricted their copyright infringement activities to pornography, obviously. Jesus, did you even look at the name?! :)

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you will hear testimony during this trial regarding the complete disregard for the law shown by Mr Munkeyspanker. His total disrespect for the rule of law is shown further by his attempts to hide his identity; but I assure you, this law-breaker, this ... Munkey spanker, will face justice at your hands! Ladies and gentlemen, we intend to prove hands-down, that Mr Munkeyspanker is indeed guilty of far more than self-gratification. We have substantial evidence that this spanker of monkies is in fact a serial violator, far beyond what any decent person could even imagine!"

Re:in the navy ...

[NotQuiteReal]

You call that a war story ! That's nuthin.

When I was a young'un we had to use accoustic phone couplers to send email. 110 baud. And find rolls of paper for the Teletype. Sending and Receiving.

Re:Countdown.....

[Anonymous Coward]

"It's not like you tossed a firebomb into their headquarters or anything."

Now here's a straight thinker with upper-management written all over him!

Re:Only KaZaa?

[Anonymous Coward]

KaZaa users would make the easiest targets, if they aren't smart enough to at least go for KaZaa LiTe then that means they've prolly got a few hundred top pop/rock/rap tracks being openly shared. The idiots of the web finally come in handy.

Re:weird thought

[kgarcia]

Can you imagine the profit and how many people would benefit if the RIAA followed the ePORN industry's way of doing business?

things that make you go... hmm...

Re:Interesting that

[GordoSlasher]

They named the default username given to those who install Kazaa Lite...

So I wonder how many people that covers?

They track a combination of username and IP address. For the default username, the IP address they have on record is 127.0.0.1. If that's not the address of your computer, you're safe!

Just use a better name

[ls-lta]

like, mr_unjustly_accused, miss_taken_identity, poor_waif_being_bankrupted_by_multinationals, riaa_is_lying, other suggestions?

He MIGHT want to quietly settle with the RIAA

[bsrokc73013]

If I had a name like "munkeyspanker21@Kazaa", I think I'd QUIETLY settle any lawsuit with the RIAA before my friends and neighbors found out!!! OH, the embarrassment!! Then again, this MIGHT be part of the strategy by the RIAA!

Re:Oh man!

[majorflaw]

Perhaps they're cutting you some slack for the first 20 times.

CaryShermanHasASmallPenis@Kazaa

[Anonymous Coward]

... would make for an entertaining lawsuit.

(Cary Sherman is the president of the RIAA.)

The RIAA site is behaving very strangely, probably hacked yet again. Poor little bastards.

RIAA scare has worked!

[mercnet]

Just signed onto Kazaalite, and there are only 3,243,065 users currently on. I think the RIAA suceeded in making sure those listed in the article don't increase that number...

And I been boycotting the RIAA since Napster was beta :)

Obligatory Simpsons quote...

[Aropax20]

(Think Mr Burns vs the Germans, variations on a theme)

KaZaA user: Oooh, the RIAA are mad at me. I'm so scared! Oooh, the RIAA! Uh oh, the RIAA are going to get me!

RIAA: Stop it!

KaZaA user: Don't let the RIAA come after me. Oh no, the RIAA are coming after me.

RIAA: Please stop the 'pretending you are scared' game, please.

KaZaA user: No! They're so big and strong!

RIAA: Please stop pretending you are scared of us, please, now.

KaZaA user: Oh, protect me from the RIAA! The RIAA...

RIAA: Burns, STOP IT!

My other sig is a porsche

Re:Oh man!

[Blue Stone]

I have revised my opinion on how to defend against the RIAA when using p2p. Previously I suggested the use of user names such as "sunflowergrrrl_13@kazaa" and the like, betting that the RIAA would not be foolish enough to prosecute sweet little photogenic girls, and suffer the negative publicity.

Since they are prosecuting the likes of "Lisweet@Kazaa" "ktgurl13@Grokster" and the like, however, (the heartless bastards) I now am of the opinion that "cuntfuckcunt@kazaa" might be the way to go.

Lets see them file papers against that.

Re:Interesting that

[Anonymous Coward]

You can just hear this in court now...

"127.0.0.1 ... is this not the IP address of your computer?"

"Well..no sir..."

"Well i suggest to you that is not true sir, does your computer not contain what is known as a loopback address?"

"Yes but.."

"And would this be address be 127.0.0.1 that is on your computer?"

"Err yes but.."

"Your honour i have no further questions"

PrImED

Re:in the navy ...

[johnkoer]

You better watch yourself. Based on the title of your comment, the RIAA may come after you for violating the Village People's copyright.

Re:Oh man!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now its on a scale comparable with unlicensed broadcasting, which just because it is a lot easier for anyone to do than it was in the days of pirate radio, is no less dodgy and IMHO should be as illegal.

Good thinking

[jcsehak]

Yeah, maybe a name like "[e-mail]" is the way to go. I mean, who (exec, lawyer, or judge) wants to open up the possibility of a sound clip of them saying "I lick monkey balls at the zoo" floating around the net?

Re:Oh man! [OT]

[turg]

Okay, I'm curious . . . why does it have to be a van?