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- DarkNemesis618, on 02/14/2008, -1/+31The more roadblocks the better.
- howser2007, on 02/14/2008, -2/+23Kinda scary to see the University I go to gave in to RIAA's *****. Hopefully the roadblocks in place will keep the RIAA back from the victims though.
- tringtring, on 02/14/2008, -1/+15RIAA = Really Ignorant about Artistic Aspirations
- peteophile44, on 02/14/2008, -1/+12"On February 1, the university sent the RIAA's attorneys an e-mail that referenced an attachment containing the data sought by the labels, but the attachment wasn't actually attached."
Apparently student tricks have worked their way upstream. Nothing like emailing an "attached" assignment minutes before it's due, only to follow it up hours/days later with an apologetic email containing an actual attachment. Another good one: get a large jpg and change the extension to doc. "Oh the file is corrupted? I don't know how that happened." - RuthlessPirate, on 02/14/2008, -2/+12Bleh, the RIAA sent out letters to 12 students here at Mississippi State as well. They don't have the student's names yet tho. I got interviewed in the state newspaper because I made a F the RIAA facebook group lol.
- nullx42, on 02/14/2008, -0/+9RIAA = Bunch of ***** Wankers
- PooderKing, on 02/14/2008, -1/+9God does the RIAA ever quit? This has been going on for like 8 years, do they realize no one ***** likes them?
- whatthefu, on 02/14/2008, -1/+9I don't understand why the legal system is assisting a broken business model.
- EmitStop, on 02/14/2008, -6/+14Oblig:
***** THE RIAA - inactive, on 02/14/2008, -1/+8So if you have a lawyer they can't contact you?
- Twisted871, on 02/14/2008, -0/+6We don't have to sign in, and I'll look into that MAC spoofer, thanks for the tip.
- RocketGib, on 02/14/2008, -1/+7Didn't this same group pwn the RIAA with a student-funded expert witness?
- RuthlessPirate, on 02/14/2008, -0/+5Better get a MAC spoofer. Also, it's probably not a good idea if you have to sign in to use the wireless.
- betrayed, on 02/14/2008, -1/+6I think you'll look at it different once you read this: Artists get about 9% of each sale and they want to now bring it down to 4%.
- AzureRise, on 02/14/2008, -0/+5Yes. However they don't care. They only care about money.
- inactive, on 02/14/2008, -0/+4Correct, only your lawyer. But keep in mind that every time your lawyer is contacted costs you mega bucks
- OnipSemaj, on 02/14/2008, -0/+4RIAA = Reamed In ***** Always
- DonJohnTom, on 02/14/2008, -1/+5Q: How do you know when your a huge douche?
A: When you work for the RIAA - TheNeptune, on 02/14/2008, -0/+4Yes indeed, here in Soviet OSU, administration tricks you.
- billucf, on 02/14/2008, -1/+5Ok, they can not contact the ones that have a lawyer. So, what if a large group of people each threw in a little money to a get a lawyer that is against the RIAA. The lawyer would be under a retainer because we think we might get sued by the RIAA. Then if one of us happened to get a letter from the RIAA, they would be in trouble since we have a lawyer.
- schroeder, on 02/14/2008, -0/+4You won't be missed.
- arzim, on 02/14/2008, -1/+4My school just got subpoenaed two weeks ago or so, and it gave up the names of 84 students pretty much instantaneously. Apparently, they offer a settlement of about $3000 dollars if you don't fight them, then i guess a few years ago some kid got sued for $200,000 after he claimed ignorance or something. I dunno, they're fighting a losing battle here and they're simply accruing legal fees and pinning average people with massive debts. What have they really accomplished? Limewire and all the bigger-named P2P websites are still running. Like any institution, they're years behind the technology they're fighting against.
- inactive, on 02/14/2008, -2/+5I hate these bastards. Why go after broke college students that can't afford lawyers to defend themselves?
oh wait......... - nonstop87, on 02/14/2008, -1/+4Your no better than him when you act like that.
- inactive, on 02/14/2008, -1/+4Has anyone said "***** THE RIAA" yet?
Just to be safe...
***** THE RIAA! - AzureRise, on 02/14/2008, -1/+4Musicians? You realize how little they get from music sales? Plus the RIAA is trying to get that percentage lowered and once they even tried to strip them of their cut.
From Wikipedia:
"In 1999, Stanley M. Glazier, a Congressional staff attorney, inserted, without public notice or comment, substantive language into the final markup of a "technical corrections" section of copyright legislation, classifying many music recordings as "works made for hire," thereby stripping artists of their copyright interests and transferring those interests to their record labels.[80] Shortly afterwards, Glazier was hired as Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Legislative Counsel for the RIAA, which vigorously defended the change when it came to light." - TheNeptune, on 02/14/2008, -0/+3Then your campus isn't compliant with all the fancy smancy policies... they'll be implementing some sort of sign in system soon because it's likely they've just been under the radar so far - for an example look at University of Central Oklahoma.
- suavivity, on 02/14/2008, -1/+4shut up.
just shut up. - JAG731, on 02/14/2008, -4/+6When will the RIAA realize their legal costs far outweigh the settlements. Forget Al-Queda and bin laden, the real global threat is them.
- Samsong, on 02/14/2008, -0/+2DIGG = Seriously How Old Areyouguys
- inactive, on 02/14/2008, -0/+2vwvan and stevew928 are like children repeating what the people in power want them to without questioning it.
- IADTatami, on 02/14/2008, -2/+4It hurts society more when Johnny Downloader drops out of med school because he's been crushed by a $190,000 fine than it does when Johnny Downloader downloads two thousand songs and fifty movies.
- matthekc, on 02/14/2008, -0/+2www.jamendo.com --free creative commons licensed music given away by artists there are more sites like this too.
- twarner, on 02/14/2008, -1/+3***** the RIAA
- Niceguy4186, on 02/14/2008, -0/+2I don't know about OSU, but at my college (about an hour south) we paid 4 bucks a quarter for unlimited legal help :)
- MarkOfTheDead, on 02/14/2008, -1/+3Yeah, the RIAA has none.
- Coinspinner, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1I would have supplied the list, but I would have used a move from the Governments own playbook. Redact the entire God-damned list.
- fireburner23, on 02/15/2008, -0/+1Has anyone figured out how these people are getting caught? What type of P2P software are they using? Are they using Kazaa? Wtf...
- wolfenraider, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1About time someone somewhere needs to step up and sue their school...
- cliffski, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1grow up
- solid12345, on 02/14/2008, -1/+2I'm tired of people saying "oh the poor musicians, they get no money!"
***** they don't get money, you seen MTV Cribs lately? The real sad part is that phoney balogney no-talents who can't sing or play an instrument are getting rich. - TheNeptune, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1Edit: I want to add that they admit to bandwidth throttling, and even tell you why / how to get around it. It's all on the IT site.
Registering as a server with the NAT site that listed under the IT home fixes the throttling, but for some reason I have to cancel registration and re-register everytime I reconnect to the wifi because I guess it doesn't recognize me and doesn't assign me my "server" ip. - cliffski, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1they dont. they make way more in settlements, you just dont hear about all the kids who settle
- TheNeptune, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1At OSU, a lot of students here are registered with http://natreg.okstate.edu/NatReg/servlet/Index so we can have access to the internet without bandwidth limitations and free ports. This gives you a single IP publicly and within the network, and you always get it because you must log in when you're roaming wireless, and it's assigned when you plug in ethernet.
Also, I'll assume since when you're not on ethernet, and must login to the wireless with your OKEY ID, they can track who was on what IP at what time. - duality, on 02/14/2008, -1/+2You have to admit though--even in losing this battle, they're making the RIAA work for every inch of progress. Frank Eaton would probably be proud of them for it.
- inactive, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1lol they don't know how to copy it? noobs...
- inactive, on 02/14/2008, -1/+2Students will find a way around this. Proxies, encryption, whatever it takes.
And they will continue to download.
People will continue giving you the finger and the smart ones will not get caught.
And there will always be P2P or something similar.
Suck on it RIAA and similar scum. - inactive, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1Legal help is not the same thing as retaining a lawyer to represent you.
- howser2007, on 02/14/2008, -1/+2I want to say they throttle torrents now, but not sure. My friends in the dorm had their download speed drop dramatically after a few weeks, and it's still low. I don't get very good torrent speeds either.
- inactive, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1YOU = Way more mature, I'm sure
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