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- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -12/+104The *actual* story rather than blog spam...
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/14/riaas_abundance_of_s.html - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51STOP BLOG SPAM!
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/14/riaas_abundance_of_s.html - kbarrett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42No, they have a PR person.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+54you do realize boingboing is just one big blog, right?
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37Digg needs a feature whereby if enough people indicate that the URL should be changed to another, it gets changed. That'd beat blog spam pretty quickly.
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35ImTheDarkcyde:
Yes, of course. Linking to a blog is fine if that's where the story is, such as a review or opinion piece or leak. Linking to a blog that just quotes the original with a link back to it isn't fine. - Altotus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34The Sixth Defense: "I sue dead people!"
- venir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30It's a shame it takes a lot of bad press to get them to drop a lawsuit they never should have pursued in the first place.
- thescimitar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33Is it honestly that hard to link to the original article, and not to your's or your friend's blog?
- mkoby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28I guess the bad "press" from all the online blogging and news outlets was a little more than the RIAA was willing to deal with.
- compaqdrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Your headline wasn't sensational enough.
You must be new here. - scuzzman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28"The RIAA has a soul?"
No, just a PR department.
*Typing as you posted kbarrett... Damnit... - scheper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24"... we were in the process settling with him shortly before his passing. Out of an abundance of sensitivity, we have elected to drop this particular case."
That drips with so much hypocrisy it makes me sick. - becominglumberg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24That, on top of a very weak position in court. I promise if the RIAA thought it could win it would tape back the ears and proceed.
- JWood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23No wonder I had so many hits on there today, I've been dugg! And I thought it was an error wtih the code.
Just so y'all know, I didn't submit it. I'd rather the submitter had linked to the Boing Boing post instead of mine, though. - compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25I suspect their PR department got wind of the story and told them, "You do realize your sueing a dead man, right?" They probably answered, "Yeah but we gave the family 60 days!" Then the PR department must have informed them that sueing dead people isn't exactly the popular thing to do.
They probably lose more money from the bad publicity that they keep getting than from all the pirating in the world. - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I say it "Reeah". It reminds me of 'diarrhea'. Fitting, I think.
- linkinpark342, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16On a related note, could all us Diggers stop spamming the poor guy's comments, it's not his fault someone linked it up on Digg and it got to the front page
- subtle, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20Classic case of not linking to the source, anyone?
- compaqdrew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14@Hubris
>Unfortunately, people will continue to digg this as it's on the front page....and because >people are happy to read to article to which the blog spammer eventually links.
If enough people care about it to bury it, it will be buried.
If enough people like the story (even with the blog spam), it won't be buried.
Your opinion has been noted; step back and let the Digg system work. - laser61859, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Eh, if its not linked to the original, submit the original yourself and mark this one as spam.
- btipling, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14There should be a bury option called 'Blog hopping' that when activated by a certain number of user IP bans the culprit for life from digg.
- planet0x, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14For what its worth: This is a dupe. I submitted this story, directly linked to boing boing, 10 hours earlier.
- lordTalus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I hate saying R I A A...it takes too long to say and I'm completely tired of talking after the first A. I'm sending them a cease and decist order to stop using the acronym RIAA and change it to "Dirty Bastards"
- linkinpark342, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'm wondering... its not exactly like the RIAA had _any_ supporters online to begin with. They are up to something. Unless they were afeared that the media would eventually get wind of it through all the publicity online...
Either way I'm glad for the family. - Slashriffs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The RIAA has a soul?
Amazing. - hoopers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Mighty sweet of the snuggly-poo RIAA. I'm guessing, in an attempt to improve their image there will soon be little plush RIAA stuffed characters stuffed in Happy Meals and then a Saturday morning kids cartoon to hawk them.
C'mon you know you all want to give them all big hugs!
Aren't they the ones with the biggest hearts!!! - Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I agree with you tizz, that would be very useful. Go communism! :P
- Broccoli, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You know i wonder how many of the kids of the people who run the RIAA download music or burn cd's from friends.
- neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8i wonder if Digg had something to do with the RIAA dropping this one... if so, lets have kevin create a RIAA / MPAA bashing section on Digg... we do make a difference!
- AnGryTreE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5C'mon this is a group of startched collared status quo freaks who are desperately trying to prop up a dying business model. This kind of action does not surprise me at all. What do you expect from a group which calls it's potential market theives and sues 12 year olds?
How many showers do these people need to take each night to wipe the stink off? - Kazrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4With this, the RIAA is sending a clear message. If you get sued by the RIAA, simply kill yourself and have the suit dropped.
Simple enough. - garreh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Oh RIAA, your so courteous. My opinions of you have changed 360 degrees.
* click * click * Ares * - Jadinlee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Isn't "settling" the same thing as winning for the RIAA? Isn't that the scam they pull to intimidate people into their settlement amount? So, that quote by them is complete bull.
- jtjenn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm sick of the RIAA. It's like as if everyday there is a story about the RIAA sueing someone.
- FinishdLawSkool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Considering all of the bad press and no good press I think that you are mistaken about RIAA reacting to bad press.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well thats one down...now a few hundred or thousand more to go....
- compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually only about 20,000. :P
- MacGeekGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah. I think you already mentioned that, tizz66. Can we stop with the campaign in the comments for this one article already? Speaking of spam. ;)
- gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That side of media business is dead, there isnt anything going on with it at this point. Its just a legal and accounting construct plugging away like a hungry organism.
Sadly another 20 years or so until it just dies off. - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They're employees ought to be outed. Phone numbers and the whole bit.
- noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8i'll believe it when its not a blog post.
can show me the official statement? - mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It is fine too as long as the cut/paste is sensibly represents the essence of the article. It is still more useful than just a link with the title.
- BWhaler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bunch of scum bags.
It wasn't morals which made them drop it, it was the PR fall-out.
Scum bags. - scuzzman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"and then a Saturday morning kids cartoon to hawk them."
You mean the Binky Intellectual Property Hour?
http://ubersoft.net/d/20060720.html
http://ubersoft.net/d/20060724.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Has this been on mainstream media yet?
- MarkByers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well that's probably because they actually are suing someone new every day. Thousands or maybe even tens of thousands of people have already settled without a trial.
- khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It wasn't the "Bad Press" (What the **AA wants to hear,) rather than the "Good Press" (What the **AA does not want to hear or have leaked out to the general public,) that stopped alot of this totally bankrupting the **AA. The only thing I can offer is the nice possibility of an EMP to all of their *****, and hope that without their technology, they all die as a pitiful, wasteless, whining group of people who were too ***** ignorant to realize what was good for themselves and their own race. They sold us all out - every ***** last one of them MUST DIE, and I will guarantee they all will die.
(Let's see the Secret Service stop me from posting this last comment. LOL - I bet they're too stuck protecting the "businesses" to realize their own fatal mistake.) - clueless25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I still despise the RIAA...
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