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elly
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Registered: Apr 2002
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Angry Riaa

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LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- The Recording Industry Association of America said this week it sent out subpoenas to Internet service providers as it prepares to sue hundreds of individuals who illegally distribute songs over the Web.

"This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Filing information subpoenas is exactly what we said we'd do a couple of weeks ago when we announced that we were gathering evidence to file lawsuits," said a spokeswoman for the RIAA, the music recording industry's leading trade body.

Lawsuits expected
Sharply escalating the industry's battle against online piracy, which had so far focused on shutting down peer-to-peer services themselves, the trade group in late June said it would track down the heaviest users of these services and sue them.

Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ISPs are required to provide copyright holders with such information when there is a good-faith reason to believe their copyrights are being infringed, according to lawyers for the RIAA.

The trade group said it will probably file several hundred lawsuits this summer.

Easier to track swappers
RIAA last month said the time was right to go after individual users because a recent U.S. court ruling made it easier to track down copyright violators.

A federal court ordered Verizon Communications to reveal names of suspected song-swappers in April, prompting the Internet service provider to ask a higher court to stay the order while it appeals the case.

On June 4, the U.S Court of Appeals in Washington declined to suspend the order, allowing RIAA investigators to easily obtain the names of other Internet users it suspects of trading music illegally.

'Disagree with the method'
David Blumenthal, a spokesman for ISP Earthlink, said the company had received three subpoenas in recent weeks asking the company to identify individuals.

"It is our intention to do so, based on the ruling on June 4," said Blumenthal. But, he added, "we disagree with the method that is being used here and while we support the right of them to enforce copyrights, we think this is the wrong method for doing so."

"We're urging the RIAA and other copyright holders to find a less intrusive method for protecting their intellectual property," he said.

The RIAA is the trade group for the world's major record labels include Bertelsmann AG's BMG Entertainment, EMI Group's EMI Recorded Music, Sony's Sony Music, Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group and Warner Music, a division of CNN's parent company AOL Time Warner.

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The RIAA is like a guy drowning in the middle of the ocean. They’ll grab on to anything with hope to survive, but in reality there is no way to change their faith.


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Nadi
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1) there are way too many topics concerning this.

2) It really amazes me as how so many people can hate a group of people for wanting to protect there comercial intrests. Sharing the files is illegal, if they want to take action then its not only legal, but justifiable too.

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DJ Fien
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Fuck the RIAA.

While we're at it, Fuck the Police.

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Hohohoho... fuck everyone


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jon
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Registered: Nov 2001
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quote:
Originally posted by Nadi
1) there are way too many topics concerning this.

2) It really amazes me as how so many people can hate a group of people for wanting to protect there comercial intrests. Sharing the files is illegal, if they want to take action then its not only legal, but justifiable too.


werd on bouth counts, though i dunno why people here are crapping thier pants, compare the £££ trance music makes to the £££ the cheese in the charts makes... atm anyways i belive people sharing just trance stuff should be ok, as the riaa have bigger fish to fry


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Sypher
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quote:
Originally posted by jonsimmonds
werd on bouth counts, though i dunno why people here are crapping thier pants, compare the £££ trance music makes to the £££ the cheese in the charts makes... atm anyways i belive people sharing just trance stuff should be ok, as the riaa have bigger fish to fry


Yeah that is true. Compared to the world, there aren't that many trance producers in USA, I don't even remember a single trance record being release under any of the labels mentioned here:

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Originally posted by elly
The RIAA is the trade group for the world's major record labels include Bertelsmann AG's BMG Entertainment, EMI Group's EMI Recorded Music, Sony's Sony Music, Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group and Warner Music, a division of CNN's parent company AOL Time Warner.


The fucked up thing is, if you want to defend RIAA which protects illegal sharing of music, how come people don't give a crap about software industry? To write a program worthy of sale compared to a song is much harder and much much longer(in my opinion), although the "harder" part is negotiable and can't really be compared because music is talent, programming is skill. Either way, if they are going to eliminate piracy (or at least try, cause they will never eliminate it completely), they should not only concentrate on audio, but everything: audio, video, software, documents, etc. Pretty much everything that can be duplicated using computers.

By the way, I remember like a year ago they tried to shut down radio broadcasting over the internet (probably still are trying). It was very funny. Considering all the simularities between air broadcast and internet broadcast, they might as well just try to shut down the whole audio broadcasting business. I want to see what people and artists themselves will do to RIAA, considering that broadcasting is direct advertisment for artists.


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webmeister
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Be careful with that argument Sypher .. you'll probably find that most trance labels have a parent, and are eventually owned by one of the big 5 labels :/


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