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- thevelvetsun, on 01/03/2008, -2/+74Oh my God, the end of the article is just mind blowing.
"The way out of the mess is equally simple: the group accepts MasterCard, Visa, and Discover; the accused can even put their settlements on a "convenient" monthly payment plan."
This is sickening. The music industry is no longer in the business of selling music - they are now in the business of driving their loyal customers to bankruptcy - the same loyal customers that payed for their BMWs and private jets. - epyon8282, on 01/03/2008, -0/+71Score one for school protecting their students and not selling them out to the RIAA. Take that corporate bullies!!!
- wakeborder, on 01/03/2008, -2/+53***** the RIAA
Go Washington - silentphoenix, on 01/03/2008, -2/+36sometimes i get so angry reading about the RIAAs bullying tactics
RIAA SUCKS!! - skyshock1, on 01/03/2008, -0/+25I thought the courts had already decided that an IP address is ABSOLUTELY NOT proof of identity?!?
- GetUthunized, on 01/03/2008, -1/+25I go to UW and this comes as a surprise, because we've received letters in the past about how we could be liable for downloading stuff illegally, so I was under the assumption that they had already begun sucking the RIAA's tit. It's good to know they bit it off instead...
- jkremer3, on 01/03/2008, -2/+22"the accused can even put their settlements on a "convenient" monthly payment plan." That quote makes me so pissed that I can't even describe. Any law that makes 90% of Americans criminals is NOT a good law. At this point, it's clear that it's not against all of our morals, so it shouldn't be against the law.
- alexidigg, on 01/03/2008, -0/+15or the schools just know that college kids are broke and if the RIAA gets them (and then their money) the kid's not gonna be able to pay tuition anymore
- wjackson, on 01/03/2008, -0/+14In one file-sharing case, the RIAA has been referred by the defendants as "a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have".
- unclerichard, on 01/03/2008, -1/+12Did the univeristies include ***** the RIAA in their response?
- patriot050, on 01/03/2008, -1/+12RIAA is picking on a school that has a $hit load of money and owns part of downtown Seattle? good luck with that.
***** the RIAA - BossKey, on 01/03/2008, -0/+9The letters are still valid. You CAN still be liable for illegal acts, even if the RIAA vanished tomorrow.
The University is merely unconvinced that the students were properly identified. If the university is presented with hard evidence of a specific suspect, they will cooperate whether it is an illegal download, a dorm room theft, or a murder. - ultralights, on 01/03/2008, -0/+8The real winners behind the American music industry seams to be the Lawyers now, all money made by the RIAA is going straight into the legal profession.... they will bleed it dry.. then move onto destroying another industry, movies perhaps?
- will-rom, on 01/03/2008, -0/+8Yep. The encrypted connection only makes it harder for the ISP to choke your torrent speeds. That doesn't stop the AAs from hiring people to record your IP address. Go private or move. :)
- marx2k, on 01/03/2008, -3/+11Whos saying youre not trying before youre buying?
- bryano, on 01/03/2008, -0/+8erm, ***** the RIAA
- aznhomig, on 01/03/2008, -0/+8In other words, a ***** oligopoly and a coordinated cartel that dominates the market, making independent development practically impossible.
- mthe0ry, on 01/03/2008, -0/+7As a University of Washington student I have to say this really makes me even more proud of this great school. Go Huskies. We might suck at football but we kick ass at sticking it to the man (and academics!).
- EmitStop, on 01/03/2008, -1/+8Yeah, *****, I'm an adminstrator on a message board and i get totally different people with the same IP addresses because they all had AOL.
- zhulien, on 01/03/2008, -0/+7why doesn't the US Government just lock up every student and the 2million people who downloaded Heroes. Why not just lock up everyone else too as they are potential downloaders, even the ones without computers.
- inactive, on 01/03/2008, -0/+6'Cause, you know, noone's EVER found out the password of another student before. Ever. Period.
- inactive, on 01/03/2008, -0/+6Yes... Unfortunately they can and will
- ferose333, on 01/03/2008, -1/+7"The unauthorized uploading or downloading of music is illegal. It is just as wrong as shoplifting from a local record store-and the impact on those who create music and bring it to fans is equally devastating."
How the hell do those retards come up with these philosophies? Might as well say, "Downloading music is like recording a video of a vacation you had in Hawaii, so you can watch those videos instead of going to Hawaii." - adulgo, on 01/03/2008, -0/+6It's simple. Send money directly to the musicians and bypass the record companies completely. Like DJ Doboy who would make mixes and post them on his site (doboy.com) for free. Everyone I know would kick him a few bucks via Paypal. Cheaper then retail for the buyer. Musician makes more money, since the record companies never give them money anyway.
- JNudda, on 01/03/2008, -0/+5As a UW student, this is awesome. Granted, I know not to use p2p on the school network, but its a relief that the school admins realize that an IP address =/= a student. Probably should thank our CS department for that.
- aznhomig, on 01/03/2008, -0/+5Good for them for giving the RIAA buffoons the middle finger.
- PcCrasher, on 01/03/2008, -0/+5RIAA can suck my balls! power to P2P network users!!
- TechCF, on 01/03/2008, -0/+5Well, yes. But posting torrent files with your real name as your username. Or posting to your personal blog the same time as you seed and the RIAA gets your IP from your web host and ISP and you are fu****.
- zlintux, on 01/03/2008, -0/+5this is just tiresome..
- jonms83, on 01/03/2008, -0/+5Ya gotta love an RIAA post to join together tech people in one single most effort... to defeat the RIAA
- adulgo, on 01/03/2008, -0/+4Right on, GO DAWGS!!! A lot of UW alumni are multi-bizillionairs from the dot.com boom. They have more lawyers then the RIAA.
- kurejibitch, on 01/03/2008, -2/+6As a UW hopeful for next fall, I find this entirely hilarious. Attacking one of the richest public universities which owns an enormous chunk of downtown Seattle and has enough grants from Bill Gates to fill the Tacoma Dome? Seriously? Seattlites are hippie tech nerds, every last one of them. RIAA, invaraibly, stands no chance in hell. Let's be real here, half of those old bastards wouldn't know how to use a torrent themselves if it bit them in the ass. There will be ways around it.
- BagginsBoy, on 01/03/2008, -0/+490% of Americans have not illegally downloaded music. Sorry.
Not even 50% - rda1441, on 01/03/2008, -0/+4Kinda like paying protection money to the Mob for protection from the Mob eh?
- snatchmstr, on 01/03/2008, -0/+4I've read enough of these to never purchase another cd again. Or for that matter "buy" songs online. The RIAA is pushing people to download.
- Myztry, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3Make it easier, and more rewarding for someone to aquire a song through means where the artist benefits.
Sure chase down those who defraud the system in a business like manner, but don't chase the customers. The music industry survived well through the advent of dual deck tape recorders without the slightest problem. - Jalh, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3they are the real pirates ..... RIAA MPAA and other bunch of *****
- kaevne, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3One solid line of protection is PeerGuardian 2. http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ It blocks tcp and udp connections based on a growing "blacklist" of IPs.
- gak001, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3Tit? More like dick.
- bagboyrebel, on 01/03/2008, -2/+5"Customers buy things." and then get sued by the RIAA
- actorboy, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3For pirating, yes. I could spend a $100K at Sears. But if I decide to shoplift a crescent wrench, they still have as much right to prosecute me as if I spent nothing. They don't owe me a free ride just because I shopped there before.
- IADTatami, on 01/03/2008, -1/+4Not really. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement, not larceny.
The more you know! - IADTatami, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3"You can't rule innocent men."
Luckily, you can turn them all into criminals. All you need is a pen and a sackful of money for your pet representatives. - marx2k, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3Look into SoulSeek for music and the NNTP protocol for everything else ;)
- Stalks, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2An ISP can hold logs of who is connected to their network and what IP they were using.
- tgc1, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2Let's not give them any ideas, shall we?
- unclerichard, on 01/03/2008, -2/+4The supermarket will lose the box of cereal if you trash it. Nobody will lose anything if you download music and then remove it from your computer.
- bagboyrebel, on 01/04/2008, -0/+2http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060424-6662 ...
- mojotooth, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2Why not realize that the genie is already out of the bottle? Data is just a commodity; you cannot base your entire business model on the selling or protecting of it. The pirates are always one step ahead.
So let them pirate. Find different ways to make money other than desperately clinging to the data being your golden eggs. There are dozens of success stories out there from people who did exactly that.
The record labels are no longer necessary. Our laws and our courtrooms should not in the business of preserving dinosaurs. - bbqribs, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2It's called "pulling it out of their ass." And your analogy is appropriate.
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