The RIAA's Hit List Named 1008
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?"
Check out PACER!!! (Score:5, Informative)
I never knew there was such easy accesible tools to information that the government owes us anyways. Takes about a week for them to e-mail you a password, and you are free to register as a individual citizen!
The list: (Score:1, Informative)
Re:What I'd like to see (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What I'd like to see (Score:5, Informative)
My thoughts, and a simple solution (Score:5, Informative)
1) Boycott the RIAA - Since they've cranked up their customer attacks, Ive stopped buying their product (6 months and counting).
2) Shop via used cd's if you must. It will help show their loss in the upcomming year (used sales are Not tracked). Ebay/Amazon/Local stores/Whatever.
Vote with your wallets people! Stop being hypocritical and buying their stuff while complaining how they stink!!
What about the open AP defense? (Score:1, Informative)
and if I keep my music stored on an external harddrive, I really dont see how they can prove that I dowloaded anything illegal
Re:What about people who don't live in the US? (Score:3, Informative)
Will I be sued for music-swapping? [bbc.co.uk]
Re:phew. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Oh man! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Always referred to as theft (Score:5, Informative)
Block the RIAA/MPAA yourself (Score:5, Informative)
Not all Kazaa (Score:3, Informative)
Not quite. 117 of 124 do. Here are the other 7 of them that don't:
Actual Subpoenae at Cryptome (Score:5, Informative)
[cryptome.org]
http://cryptome.org/riaa-hit.htm
Or, for the lazy:
This is one of several hundred similar subpoenas issued by RIAA recently under the DMCA. Most have been filed in US District Court in the District of Columbia.
US District Court in the District of Columbia
1:03-mc-00273-UNA
Unassigned, presiding
Date filed: 07/02/2003 Date of last filing: 07/02/2003
Entered 07/17/03
LAW OFFICES
MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
A PARTNERSHIP INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS
TRIDENT CENTER
11377 WEST OLYMPIC BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90064-1683
(310) 312-2000
FAX: (310) 312-3100
June 30, 2003
Sir or Madam
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.
3 Executive Campus
Cherry Hill. NJ 08002
Re: Notice of Copyright Infringement (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3))
Dear Sir or Madam:
We are counsel to the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. ("RIAA") and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whose member companies create, manufacture, and/or distribute approximately ninety percent (90%) of all legitimate sound recordings sold and distributed in the United States. Under penalty of perjury, we submit that we are authorized to act on behalf of the R1AA and its member companies in matters involving the online infringement of their copyrighted sound recordings.
A user, customer, or subscriber of your system or network, identified by the IP address, date, and time on the attached document, is offering tbr download over the Internet files containing copyrighted sound recordings owned by RIAA member companies. The attached document also includes a representative list of the recordings the identified user is offering for download. We have a good faith belief that such activities are not authorized by the copyright owners, their agents, or the law, and assert that the intbrmation in this Notice of Copyright Infringement is accurate, based on the data available to us.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Should you have any questions, please contact me at (310) 312-3297 or at dmca@msk.com.
[Signature]
Yvette Molinaro
for
MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
24.61.155.10 on 6/26/2003 at 11:49:00 p.m.(EDT)
The user at the above-identified IP address, using the screen name Tyler@KaZaA, has offered for download through the online media distribution system known as KaZaA copyrighted sound recordings owned by RIAA member record companies, including the following representative recordings:
Michelle Branch - All You Wanted
Avril Lavigne - Complicated
Radiohead - Just
Incubus - Nice to Know You
Busta Rhymes - Pass the Courvoisier
Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun
Incubus - Stellar
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
A PERFECT CIRCLE - Three Libras
Not only Kazaa (Score:4, Informative)
The reason why the Kazaa users were LISTED is that you can reverse look up their "screen names" more easily, and that's more interesting to publish for TechTV than a list of IP addresses.
Regards,
--
*Art
Re:Always referred to as theft (Score:3, Informative)
phrasing is everything
thats why people get paid big bucks to devise headlines commercials etc.
Re:What about people who don't live in the US? (Score:3, Informative)
Spanish Firms Target File Traders [wired.com]
bbh
Re:Oh man! (Score:5, Informative)
Are others receiving these as well? I realize in matters of tracing criminal acts (such as kiddie pr0n, molesters stalking in chat rooms, etc) I would hope ISPs would release names, but in cases of music/movie piracy (and any other crime that doesn't have a *real* victim) I would hope the ISPs would push back on the P2P networks.
Am I the only one that sees a difference between a police agency with a warrant in hand asking who's who and the damn 'copyright holder'? Shouldn't there be a burden of proof before my privacy is violated?
Re:Oh man! (Score:1, Informative)
Come on, just because the RIAA sucks doesn't make copyright infringement ok and "victimless". Just pay the artists, or don't use their work. Don't have it both ways.
Re:Oh man! (Score:3, Informative)
Many don't have an ethical leg to stand on.
And many don't have a moral leg to stand on.
I refuse to defend the actions of those who pirate for any reason. There is no legal, ethical, or moral reason why piracy should be legal.
They broke the law and now they're facing the penalty of those laws.
That post of yours is a huge disgrace to the original author who spoke of people who were slaughtered simply because they believed in a different God than someone else.
It's disgusting.
Ben
Re:Oh man! (Score:4, Informative)
1993: Playboy Enterprises Inc. v. Frena
The Florida Northern District Court held that Frena, an electronic bulletin board operator, had violated Playboy's copyright when one of their photographs was digitized and placed on the bulletin board system by one subscriber and downloaded by another subscriber. According to the decision, "it does not matter that Defendant Frena may have been unaware of the copyright infringement. Intent to infringe is not needed to find copyright infringement. Intent or knowledge is not an element of infringement, and thus even an innocent infringer is liable for infringement; rather innocence is significant to a trial court when it fixes statutory damages, which is a remedy equitable in nature."
striking back at the RIAA's OWNERS! (Score:5, Informative)
Of course the reason why the RIAA is being out front and public and is making itself hated is to take the heat off the major labels.
A record industry music boycott sticks the heat right where it belongs.
To destroy them, just do all your music spending on independent artists [cdbaby.com] and tell everyone else you know to do the same.
Most people don't appreciate just how fragile the position of the major labels is. They're all losing money, and so far, the music label CEOs have not only gotten away with using PIRACY!!! as an excuse with Congress, but with the multinationals that own them..
Simply refusing to buy music plays into their hands, they'll say "People refuse to buy our products because THEY'RE ALL STEALING THEM VIA P2P AND WE NEED NEW LAWS TO PROTECT US!!!"
Buying from independents will send exactly the right message both to Congress and to the companies that own the major labels.
Enough of us do this and the companies that own the major labels will be forced to dump them... lest their own stock prices follow their record companies value straight into the toilet.
Just a few percentage points of major record company sales transferred into the profit margins of independent artists and the war will be over, settled over the smoking corpses of the Big 5.
This should only take getting 1M people on board.
And the person who observes the RIAA boycott as I advise will get chances to find a lot of good new music of whatever kind you like that hasn't been dumbed down for the faceless masses RIAA product is aimed at.
Re: well... (Score:3, Informative)
There are lots of laws that may seem wrong to some people - laws about haschish seem wrong to me, but I 'm willing to take the risk. If I ever get nailed by the cops about smoking outside, I certainly won't whine it's not right.
As you say the only thing that can be done against this can be done by artists themselves. If lots of them seem to disagree with RIAA's methods they won't be able to continue as they do. Users can't.
Re:The RIAA doesn't care... (Score:1, Informative)
EMI Classics
EMI Gospel Music
EMI Latin
EMI Records
Sega
Sony Classical
Sony Discos
Sony Japan
Sony Labels
Sony Music
Sony Music US (Latin)
Sony Wonder
Virgin Blackground
Virgin Classics
Virgin Latino
Virgin Nashville
Virgin Records
Virgin Underground
Walt Disney Records
Warner Bros. Christian
Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Latina
amongst (obviously!) others.
Re:Any good ISPs out there that destroy records? (Score:3, Informative)
Secondly, destroying those records would be tanamount to what Enron did... they knew they were being pursued and destroyed records anyway. There are differences, to be sure, but once an entity is made aware of any kind of investigative action they are held to the position all records become part of the investigation. With the very broad press in regards to the RIAA issues, it would not be a good idea for any ISP to destroy any records. Playing pattycake with the RIAA is one thing, but having your ass hauled into Federal Court for obstruction charges is another thing altogether.
Next point is an article stating AP had culled the supoena records and managed to ID some of the people, contacting them ahead of time to explain the situation. Apparently even the RIAA didn't know they could find user information without the assistance of the ISP.
And having grep'd way too damned many router logs to verify connectivity and usernames, I want to know how AP did it with just the IP address and subpoena info. Any ideas?
Duplicate names definetly allowed OK (Score:1, Informative)
Re:PLEASE READ THIS (Score:2, Informative)