RIAA Sues the Wrong Person 686
Cildar writes "In the 'oops' category, the RIAA was forced to withdraw its suit against a 66 year old computer neophyte (read Apple User for god's sake) when they discovered she thought 'Kazaa' was a magician playing at local kids' birthday parties. The story is as reported in the Boston Globe." Update: 09/24 15:19 GMT by T : Note, the magician crack is a joke ;)
BWAHAHAHAH! (Score:5, Funny)
That's great. (Score:2, Funny)
Magician (Score:5, Funny)
And does anyone know where I can download David Blaine, the popular P2P filesharing program?
Re:BWAHAHAHAH! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:BWAHAHAHAH! (Score:5, Funny)
Don't underestimate their secret weapon, complete ignorance and total fucking arrogance. And of course their not-so-secret weapon, fat wads of cash.
Re:neophyte = Apple User? (Score:2, Funny)
Traditional Unixes are powerful, but difficult for the novice.
OTOH, Windows is so ugly, cluttered, and confusing, it is difficult for anyone to use.
Re:Where? (Score:5, Funny)
A strategy by the ISPs? (Score:5, Funny)
"Oops sorry, the DHCP must have reassigned that address,we THOUGHT it was the one you wanted...Sorry."
This would let their customers still enjoy what they initially signed up for (filesharing, you've seen the adds, etc.)
Re:Abolish human rights, and this won't happen. (Score:1, Funny)
So ummm, do you know any cool things about farts?
Re:BWAHAHAHAH! (Score:5, Funny)
New legal defense strategy (Score:2, Funny)
"I only use a Mac.."
Up yours, RIAA!
Strike 2 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:But theyre still gonna keep an eye on her. (Score:2, Funny)
I knew it! Virtual Pc - Mac - Kazaa..
If somebody patented p2p technology (probably already through some obscure definitions) I bet RIAA would sue the p2p patentee holders as well.. and request to take over the p2p patent.. Oh sh*t, imagine if RIAA owns the patent for P2P! (omg the sky is falling!)
Re:Magician (Score:5, Funny)
Foolproof (Score:3, Funny)
The RIAA will think anyone who saw the Shaq movies is too crazy to sue.
slashdot is becoming... (Score:2, Funny)
slashdot is like the movie rental shop where I went.
First I went there and rent a lot of "good" movies. After 3 or 4 weeks, I just stopped, because there was nothing new around. I went there 2 months later and the same moveis were around just with 2 or 3 additions.
Slashdot latelly has become:
1 - oh god, another MS vulnerabilty.
2 - SCO Stories
3 - RIAA did this, RIAA did that.
Isn't this supposed to be NEWs for the nerds ? not OLDs for the nerds...
because this wonderfull piece of information can be resumed to:
Someone accused someguy of doing something and latter they found out they were wrong. Is that topnotch story to you ?
ok... you can continue to read the "in Soviet Union RIAA owns you" (always modded funny) and "this seems like the SCO case" comments..
Re:whee, here we go again. (Score:5, Funny)
Since they won't be able to sell their product because it takes them too long to develop them and the quality is barely acceptable in most cases, they'll just start sueing any company that did any work based on MS technologies (Novell/Ximian), any company that cloned the looks of windows (Lindows/Lycoris/Xandros), but also any user who ever used any pirated copy of any MS software (about 80% of the planet).
As you can see, we shouldn't be too worried about the future of Microsoft as a business entity.
Re:Magician at Kids' Parties? WTF? (Score:3, Funny)
It's a hard knock life (Score:3, Funny)
Re:slashdot is becoming... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:RIAA also get sued(again) (Score:1, Funny)
Please don't squeeze the Sharman!!
Re:The U.S. Constitution (Score:5, Funny)
ObSpicoli: "So, what this Jefferson dude was saying was, we left this England place because it was bogus, but if we don't get some cool rules, pronto, we'll just be bogus too. Yea?"
Re:Where? (Score:2, Funny)
Mistake because of wrong IP? (Score:3, Funny)
In that case, I hope they mess up the next IP address and get 127.0.0.1. That would make for an interesting day.
You _MUST_ be new here (Score:3, Funny)
We _have_ diversified though. It used to be only MS that we'd bitch about constantly.
Re:Dealt with Foley Hoag (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Where? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Where? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:need penalties for false accusations (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmm, good advertising (Score:3, Funny)
What? (Score:5, Funny)
Where do I get that? Never heard of it... =P
"research" (Score:2, Funny)
Obviously network pros are working on this. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But theyre still gonna keep an eye on her. (Score:5, Funny)
In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
his IP address was 192.168.1.101 so it couldn't have been him right?
Maybe the RIAA will go after THAT IP next....
Re:Legal fees? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmmm...I do sense a litigation opportunity after all.
Please God... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:BWAHAHAHAH! (Score:3, Funny)
I'll gesture while I talk then.