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:what the flying fuck? (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm glad the whip and buggy industries were not as organized as today's IP industries.
Also, I find it insulting that Mr. Turkewitz considers shared music illegitimate by default. What music I have released, and most of my friends have released, was free and distribution was encouraged. In fact, my first release was on ocremix.org, where all the music is free and torrents of their content are an encouraged distribution method. I'm sure glad this RIAA shill has set us straight and made it clear how illegitimate our free community-minded distribution of our works is. Sure wouldn't want to encourage that kind of illegitimate "online music marketplace."
Re:Dear Anonymous (Score:5, Interesting)
You can only get the extravagant fines for copyright infringement if you've registered your copyright with the Library of Congress (which involves paying a fee and sending them a copy of the work). If the copyright isn't registered, the owner can only claim damages suffered. So when the RIAA "steals" artwork or text from a random web artist/author, worst case they have to pay what they would've paid if they had licensed it, best case they're not caught and they pay nothing.
Re:Shutting down Virgin Media? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:what the flying fuck? (Score:2, Interesting)
Fuck off and die in a fire. You do not have the right to dictate changes to a society so that it fits your business model better.
Easy there cowboy, no need to get angry. None of the sites they I'd ever heard of before today, and I pirate the everloving fuck out of anything stamped as owned by the British Emp--er, RIAA. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go dump some more of their junk in the river while dressed like one of the village people...
As long as they maintain this level of incompetence, piracy will live on forever.
Re:what the flying fuck? (Score:5, Interesting)
oh, I'm no artist. I was a post-surgical kid on Vicodin with a demo version of Fruity Loops on Win98. But I have since taken up guitar, partially inspired by that experience.
Music is not an industry. Music is practically a food group.
Re:Dear Anonymous (Score:4, Interesting)
It would seem you have the wrong idea about "Anonymous". Anyone can be "Anonymous", you can be "Anonymous". All that happens is you choose to do an act of protest and rather than doing it in your name, you do in under the banner of "Anonymous". Your choice of protest, what you are protesting and how you are protesting it, is entirely your own. Whether you choose to act on your own or in association with others is entirely you and their choice. Just remember to have fun while doing and take precautions. Safe protesting is like safe sex, taking precautions to prevent, diseases like government and corporate persecution twisted into corrupt prosecution (where the penalty is a "FAILED" extended court case but your are imprisoned for the duration anyhow).
You want action, then you take action, either alone or in groups but please practice safe protesting.