RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown 140
New submitter souperfly writes "The Inquirer has a list of 21 sites that the RIAA is looking to get shut down by ISPs this week. The list includes sites filestube, Bomb-Mp3, Mp3skull, Bitsnoop, Extratorrent, Torrenthound, Torrentreactor and Monova, and at least one ISP — Virgin Media in the UK — has confirmed the number of targeted sites. BT confirmed it will block the site, but didn't say when. Before, it was thought that only six sites were lined up for a chop."
Re:Dear Anonymous (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Dear Anonymous (Score:5, Informative)
As Jefferson said:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and Lulz.
The RIAA can kiss my ass (Score:2, Informative)
They stole from Canadian artists and are suing people who pirate albums from Canadian artists, against the will of said artists.
Re:The RIAA can kiss my ass (Score:4, Informative)
They steal from US artists, too. Never believe them when they say they're doing something for the sake of the artists. The artists never see any of that money (bar one or two out of a thousand or so). They drive more artists into debt than they make wealthy. And by debt I mean they get them to sign a contract allowing the company to promote the artist as they choose, and commiting the artist to pay for it, and when the promotion costs more than (by *their* accounting) they bring in, the send the artists a hefty bill. And every time they've been reviewed by an external auditor (it's rarely possible to force this) they've been found to be under counting the profits.
You are, on the average, better off if you never sign anything they offer you. The exceptions occur, but they are so rare as to be an anomoly.
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