news.cnet.com — Last December, the music industry's message to song writers, publishers, and musicians was that antipiracy help was on the way. Hopes soared after the major labels announced that they had convinced a group of telecoms to work with them.
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exspasticcomicsJun 5, 2009
read a thing about a guy who owns a small ISP down south & everytime he gets anything from the RIAA asking him to look into a copyright infringer... he sends the a bill for about $100 (processing fee...) no one has every paid the processing fee... so he's never had to find out who the supposed infringer was.
shuffleJun 5, 2009
You know, to stop buying RIAA music and MPAA movies is a good long term plan, but a terrible short term one. You know as well as I do that they will cry "PIRACY!" the minute sales diminish. What we need to do short term is keep the upwards sales trends in place while we increase piracy (like what has been happening - but even more drastic).We all know that more piracy does not equal less revenue for them. They aren't stupid, they know that as well. Give them an inch in their argument to the contrary though and they will take a god damn mile down that rat hole.
captdonnoJun 5, 2009
hmm, sounds like ISPs are in business to make MONEY,NOT alienate their customers!! i'd like to see Family Guy do a spoof on this whole thing...
shadowspawnJun 5, 2009
It really is a deep statement, if one thinks about it. There were two ways to stop this (upon hindsight). Go through a content-delivery service that is monitored (Think of AOL's home page), or cut off all internet access.
Closed AccountJun 5, 2009
Well said..And it's not the RIAA's either.
seanathanJun 5, 2009
+1 for f**k Sony.
Closed AccountJun 5, 2009
its actually pretty good. its called 30 but i def average above 20 most of the time and at night when i'm running rapidshare downloads i definitely hit 30 all night. no capping, no port blocking, no traffic shaping. optimum online in NJ. I'm goin to get the 101/15 when i hear what you can actually average. its only $100 a month!