RIAA Sues 261 Major P2P Offenders 1076
circletimessquare writes "Yahoo!/Washington Post is reporting that the RIAA is suing 261 fileswappers whom they consider to be 'major offenders' in illegally trading music online. Remember to visit the EFF when full lawsuit details are released, and see if you're one of the unlucky few." Details of the amnesty program reported last week were also released, with the RIAA announcing it "...would require file sharers to admit in writing that they illegally traded music online and vow in a legally binding, notarized document, never to do it again."
Suing? (Score:2, Funny)
Never!
gREAT! i'M ON THE LIST!!! (Score:1, Funny)
morally right, but the motivations are not (Score:2, Funny)
Oh what a beautiful morning... (Score:3, Funny)
*Random guy turns on computer*
You've got subpoena!
I HEREBY PROMISE - (Score:5, Funny)
Frankly, this won't be a hard promise to keep, since most mainstream music sucks.
PS - The radio is still free, and I have an TV/FM tuner/capture card.
RIAA Math (Score:5, Funny)
261 Major P2P Offenders
So, is that the equivalent [slashdot.org] of 50 file swappers, downloading really fast?
Re:Oh what a beautiful morning... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:gREAT! i'M ON THE LIST!!! (Score:1, Funny)
In prison lingo, "pack your suitcase" means stuffing your ass full of cigarettes and narcotics.
Re:Will that be on my permanent record? (Score:4, Funny)
x2 Special double slashdot paranoia bonus modifier.
Get your tinfoil hats now!
Da' finga' (Score:5, Funny)
I Hope They Don't Come After Me.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:gREAT! i'M ON THE LIST!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Run fast.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country carrying armloads of CDs with MP3s on them.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country carrying armloads of CDs with MP3s on them to Asia.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country carrying armloads of CDs with MP3s on them to Asia where you become a successful black market music distributor.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country carrying armloads of CDs with MP3s on them to Asia where you become a successful black market music distributor and retire to the Bahamas.
Run fast dropping bits of cash to distract them as you go running to another country carrying armloads of CDs with MP3s on them to Asia where you become a successful black market music distributor and retire to the Bahamas and thank the RIAA for your new life.
Re:I HEREBY PROMISE - (Score:2, Funny)
The radio is still free...
Not for long [zeropaid.com].
Doesn't sound like propaganda to me (Score:5, Funny)
Offenders must also confess to having been to the proletariat areas and consorted with the prostitutes, or they go to Room 101...
Re:File Sharing Legal in Canada (Score:5, Funny)
There was rumours cd-r's were going to skyrocket in price as a result of that thought...however prices of cd-r's have dropped like a stone here just as they have everywhere.
So my 50 cents canadian (0.001 american dollars) is letting my have some legal file sharing
Yay for Canada! We also recently got electricity
shit... (Score:1, Funny)
I'm kazaaliteuser..
Re:Served? (Score:2, Funny)
The process has to be served. If the plaintiff cannot give the court instructions on how to serve you with the suit, the court must throw the case out.
A good example of this is a case a few years back of somebody who filed a suit against the devil, but had it thrown out because they could not give the court the devil's address.
Re:gREAT! i'M ON THE LIST!!! (Score:2, Funny)
KFG
Re:I think (Score:1, Funny)
Steal? I thought music was protected under copyright law.
so far so good. (Score:1, Funny)
i wonder though, is my other ip, 192.168.1.100?
Re:gREAT! i'M ON THE LIST!!! (Score:2, Funny)
damit .. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:My theory... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh the humanity!
Re:I think (Score:5, Funny)
I havent personally saw anyone with patches over their eyes recently. Or any tall masted ships.
This leads me to believe this is all propaganda to make the average person scared to "surf".
Gibberish.
Re:I think (Score:5, Funny)
It's only "stealing" when SCO or Microsoft does it.
Predictions (Score:3, Funny)
2) 200 defendants in the last case blame the last "Blaster" worm and claim they had no idea their computers were sharing files.
Re:Suing? (Score:5, Funny)
Republican (n): Someone who thinks the amount of money you have is more important than who you are.
Re:I think (Score:2, Funny)
Peter: Well, yeah.
Joanna: Music that's not yours.
Peter: Well, it becomes ours.
Joanna: Uh-huh...how is that not stealing?
Let's get Al Kaida to take out the RIAA! (Score:3, Funny)
We'll convert them to MP3s and add them (correctly labeled) to the lists of files available for downloading on thousands of P2P file sites.
Then, when the RIAA orders these sites to shut down, we'll send e-mails to the Saudi Arabian embassy complaining that the RIAA is trying to destroy the sharing of the word of the prophet.
The Saudis will put out the word to their old buddy Osama that the RIAA is now an enemy of Islam and issue a fatwa authorizing its destruction, like the mad Ahyatolla in Iran did to Salmon Rushdie. A modest reward of a few million bucks will help encourage the faithfull to answer the call. After all, what's a few million to the Saudis when the recordings of readings from the holy Koran is at stake?
The RIAA will be so busy trying to hide from a billion fanatical Moslems that they will lose interest in destroying the lives of the ordinary people who are more interested in just listening to music than killing them.
'When you have multiple enemies with great strength trying to destroy you, the best way to fight back is to get your enemies to turn against each other and ignore you. ' - Machievelli (more or less)
Let's Just Do It! We have to start doing something creative to protect ourselves from these assholes!
Look it up... (Score:2, Funny)
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Must ask this: (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Suing? (Score:5, Funny)
Democrat (n): Some one who thinks you are too stupid to make decisions for your self, so the government should make them for you by taxing the living shite out of everyone and creating a vast gigantic pig such that Americans will need to suckle at the teat in order to survive.
Republican (n): Some one who thinks you are too stupid to make decisions for your self, so the government should not tax the rich and powerful top 1% cause they really have everyone's best interest at heart, including bending us all over and giving us what we need, the way they want to.
Re:Antiquation (Score:3, Funny)
Oh crap, does this mean that we have to wait for Apple and BSD to die before the music industry finally kicks it? Because that may take a looong time.
Re:My theory... (Score:3, Funny)
It turns into alt.binaries.* ?