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- ELWOOD_BLUES, on 12/23/2008, -1/+270This ISP has a great case. Why should they do the dirty work for free? They should estimate that it will take a tech 3 hours to do the research for each alleged file pirate, so they should charge the RIAA $150 per hour!
End of annoying letters. - doublefelix, on 12/23/2008, -3/+230This is like asking McDonald's to ban fat people.
- abbathdoom, on 12/23/2008, -3/+220***** the RIAA
- DarkerMaster, on 12/23/2008, -0/+204Or they could all tell the RIAA to ***** OFF.
Why should an ISP have to sift through data at all? - ChayesFSS, on 12/23/2008, -6/+127Send the ***** bills to metallica
- maja742, on 12/23/2008, -2/+110When are they gonna learn that they will always be chasing the pirates
- 3242130193, on 12/23/2008, -0/+90I bet the RIAA is planning to lobby for making ISPs responsible for content/piracy on their networks. ISPs won't have a choice then.
*****. Historically, Congress has always been in the RIAA's back pocket. I hope it's still not the case. - smmakira, on 12/23/2008, -0/+72I like how even the ISP's are LOLing at what the RIAA announced.
- chadsmith729, on 12/23/2008, -1/+63Dear RIAA:
I am glad to hear that your lawsuits against grandmothers and dead people have finally ended. However, one thing still remains. You are targeting P2P networks ... which honestly who still uses those? I know I don't, I download, listen, if I like then I go BUY the music. Tell your clients to stop producing ***** music and I'll maybe pay money for it. When I look at Billboard.com and see the following artists who are taking up the top 10 Beyonce, Britney Spears, Kanye West, and T.I. I can't help but to wonder how you sleep at night. Go find real jobs.
Thanks,
Everyone in the United States. - nickhaskell, on 12/23/2008, -1/+61Nice, both the ISPs and the RIAA don't want to deal with it.
- daridave, on 12/23/2008, -1/+59...and pirates will always chase them. They need to realize the bitchier they become, the more fun it is to f*ck them over. I admire what that ISP said -- there are more important things out there to look out for -- real crimes.
- Mactrekr, on 12/23/2008, -2/+55"RIAA, because billions and billions of dollars, just ain't enough!"
- 40yrOldVirgin, on 12/23/2008, -8/+55Someone stole the white space in that article.
- synapseattack, on 12/23/2008, -12/+57RIAA has every right to go after people pirating music. This coming from a guy (me) who has in the past downloaded a song or two from a friend. However, Jerry Scroggin (owner of BIC in the article) is absolutely right too, theres no reason for ISPs to have to incur the expense. If RIAA wants the help, then they need to be willing to pay for it.
- Takfam, on 12/23/2008, -1/+44I just have this vision of a fat kid sitting at his computer, fingers covered in cheeto dust, saying "Alas, RIAA, you will forever remember this day as the day you almost caught K4pta1n J4Ck 5p4rr0w!"
- aklu, on 12/23/2008, -5/+40I came here for the above comment. Was not disappointed.
Carry on. - jojopumpkin, on 12/23/2008, -2/+31And this is how Net Competition will find it's way.
http://www.netcompetition.org/ The ISPs choose what you can view and say (Imagine AOL without a window to the web)
http://www.savetheinternet.com/ You choose what you can view and say. - quentinp, on 12/23/2008, -1/+28How about, "RIAA because lawyers want private jets too!"
- PhillAholic, on 12/23/2008, -1/+26What's worse is our Vice President Elect has been in the RIAA's back pocket as well.
- cassaffousth, on 12/23/2008, -1/+25Imagine I cut someone's throat with a CD. Will the family of the victim ask the RIAA to find and catch me?
- Dougman82, on 12/23/2008, -2/+25I enjoy randomlyremoving spaces from thewords inmy sentences too!
- 3242130193, on 12/23/2008, -0/+22Dear RIAA: Maybe it's time to move on.
Sincerely... - themonkman, on 12/23/2008, -0/+21Holding ISP's wholly responsible for the content on their network, especially if it's unknown to them, is like holding the states responsible if people run guns or drugs along their interstates. Constitutional issues aside, there would be no way the states could preemptively search every vehicle for illegal materials.
- Cougnut415, on 12/23/2008, -4/+24Yeah except they would have an easy fix, just make smaller doors.
Edit: accept :/ - CraigKostelecky, on 12/23/2008, -2/+21You had it right the first time with "except."
- RudeTurnip, on 12/23/2008, -1/+20RIAA = Welfare queens with the worst sense of self entitlement and self importance. First they want the government to pay for their civil investigations and now they want ISPs to do their work. No business has any obligation to help another, especially not for free. I think they should continue on their path of suing individuals...it's the only real legal recourse they have. Whether they run out of funds in doing so or piss off the American public is not my problem, and it's not the problem of my ISP, either.
- Loonacy, on 12/23/2008, -2/+19I think you meant to say "Someone stolethe white space in that
- snatchmstr, on 12/23/2008, -0/+15They SHOULD tell them to ***** off. They are protected by the "safe harbor" provision under the DMCA.
- Briandt75, on 12/23/2008, -3/+18So what you're saying is that you should really be in jail or being prosecuted for piracy like all of us.
- mikelieman, on 12/24/2008, -1/+15"We're gonna need to invoice you for this, what's your billing address?" IS telling them to ***** Off.
- garrettg84, on 12/23/2008, -0/+13I hope the government doesn't decide to step in and subsidize this one as well.
(Or for that matter, force ISPs to do this at their own expense, as this will certainly be passed to customers) - areber04, on 12/23/2008, -5/+17It took until the 8th comment for this to be posted? Shame on you Digg, shame on you.
- adriaaan, on 12/24/2008, -0/+12Have to? How about, why is an ISP even allowed to sift through data at all?
- kirado4, on 12/23/2008, -1/+13The RIAA invaded Iraq
- pigfister, on 12/23/2008, -1/+12lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the ***** capitalist corporate globalist wankers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006) - Cougnut415, on 12/23/2008, -0/+11lol I know, I have it changed right. I was just pointing out I originally typed "accept". But thanks though, enjoy a digg :D
... on another note, they still got it beat - drive throughs - griz, on 12/23/2008, -0/+10No, this is like holding the phone company liable for someone placing a scam phone call. The phone company is just providing a service. They should have no place interfering with the activity of their customers. I thing the RIAA should be required to get a court order every time they want the ISP to send any kind of request to its customer for alleged activity.
- ibeetle, on 12/23/2008, -1/+11I wonder why the RIAA never sued shoplifters. There is a police report, so they could easily get the person, and his/her contact information. There is hard evidence.
If... and that is "if" downloading music from torrents (for example) is stealing, but with practically no impeachable evidence why not go after someone who is caught by a retailer for shoplifting a CD or DVD where there very much is impeachable evidence. - insinuate, on 12/23/2008, -4/+14best. analogy. ever.
- blacklilyninja, on 12/23/2008, -0/+10RIAA are not here for the artists.
they never were
probably created by politicians like the MPAA was.
its time it was recognized as a fraudulent organization and dissolved. - darkecho, on 12/23/2008, -0/+9AT&T owns a big majority of the lines so essentially they are the ISP to the ISP's. We have already seen congress doesn't want to mess with them.
- peters1023, on 12/24/2008, -1/+10Down with Metallica AND their ***** new music.
- Br3ach, on 12/24/2008, -1/+10Piracy to me is taking copyrighted works and SELLING them without payment to the original authors/artists.
That makes most of us not pirates, but people who either cannot afford to buy CDs with 2 decent tracks, or $20 DVDs that often. Most of us would never have bought the stuff we download for free regardless, so they really didn't lose anything.
Then there are those of us like me who download just in spite of RIAA/MPAA and their respective out of touch douchebag companies desperately clinging to their old distribution model. I will keep it up until they get with the rest of us in 2009, or until they die. - inactive, on 12/23/2008, -0/+9Tis amazing someone can have a server or business in the UK or USA and take thousands or even millions in CC fraud and ID theft and when do they get busted, after 3 years or was it 6? But downloading a nursery rhyme is an immediate court case without ever seeing any evidence against you or the litigant having any proof! I find this a little confusing, I can only surmise our so called protectors, the government don't care about us, you, me and are only concerned that big cocain snorting freaks are happily sucking millions from us daily.
As for the ISP though, tell em to get stuffed! - 11oops, on 12/24/2008, -0/+8Aurabolt... read the response Cougnut posted six hours before your post. It's right above yours, so I don't know how you missed it the first time.
- peters1023, on 12/24/2008, -0/+8What's with all those "piracy is stealing" commercials then?
- nerdzero, on 12/23/2008, -0/+8Oh I get it now. The spacing in the actual article is fine but msaleem took out some spaces to fit the character limit for the description. I was confused.
- inactive, on 12/23/2008, -1/+9RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America
they have something to do with music, videos, etc... - WibWobble, on 02/02/2009, -0/+8Dugg for "almostunanimously"
- DeFex, on 12/24/2008, -0/+8no use the RIAAs own payscale. a $0.99 song is worth $2000 so they ought to charge about $300,000 per hour.
no more coke money for you greedy RIAA pigs. the partys over. -
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