RIAA sets up a Maxim gun for lawsuits.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-06-27 02:10am

I wonder if the RIAA could be eligible for a Darwin award?

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-06-27 03:06am

I mean best way to destroy a compabny piss off the consumer base

Macross · Post by **Macross** » 2003-06-27 01:24pm

Apparently the RIAA website has been hacked...AGAIN!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/28817.html

http://www.unrealwarfarex.com/redorches ... 691504.jpg

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-06-27 02:36pm

Rubberanvil wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:I'd favor a bomb in every person to put a stop to jaywalking
There goes Las Vegas.

Actually, the RIAA's best plan would probably be to imprison all humans in pink gooey pods to harvest our precious bio-thermal energy and convert it into electricity.

Well, at least it has as good a chance of working as their current strategy...

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-06-27 05:23pm

*whistles all happy like*

Does this count as stirring the soup overmuch?

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Thank you very much for this well-written email.
I have forwarded this to everyone who covers file swapping on my staff.
--Brandon
Techlive producer

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Not truly a suggestion, but a peice of information I found. Since the RIAA's legal actions are generally classed as 'Technology' news, it seemed this was a decent place to send it to see to it this information gets out. I cannot claim responsibility for sifting through the legal records for this:

Contrary to what the RIAA wants you to believe, it appears that making a copy of an audio recording may be perfectly legal in the US, even if you don't own the original recording, as long as it is for noncommercial purposes. The reason for this is the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA).

Since 1992, the U.S. Government has collected a tax on all digital audio recorders and blank digital audio media manufactured in or imported into the US, and gives the money directly to the RIAA companies, which is distributed as royalties to recording artists, copyright owners, music publishers, and music writers:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/ch10.html
[cornell.edu]

In exchange for those royalties, a special exemption to the copyright law was made for the specific case of audio recordings, and as a result *ALL* noncommercial copying of musical recordings by consumers is now legal in the US, regardless of media:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1008.html
[cornell.edu]

"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings."

The intent of Congress was clear when this law was passed

http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/1993 -01/0018.html
[cni.org]

From House Report No. 102-873(I), September 17, 1992:

"In the case of home taping, the [Section 1008] exemption protects all noncommercial copying by consumers of digital and analog musical recordings."

From House Report No. 102-780(I), August 4, 1992:

"In short, the reported legislation [Section 1008] would clearly establish that consumers cannot be sued for making analog or digital audio copies for private noncommercial use."

Therefore, when you copy an MP3 the royalties have already been paid for with tax dollars in accordance with the law. If you are a musician whose recordings are publicly distributed, then you are entitled to your share of these royalties by filing a claim under Section 1006

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1006.html
[cornell.edu]

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Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-06-27 07:04pm

XaLEv wrote:I wonder if the RIAA could be eligible for a Darwin award?

Don't Darwin awards usually focus on individuals or small groups?

Anyway, it's not to see that the RIAA actually doesn't have a legal standing.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-06-27 07:13pm

SirNitram wrote:<SNIP>

Me like.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-06-27 07:39pm

SirNitram wrote:¿SNIP?

Anyone know any attorneys that could validate this?!?

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2003-06-27 11:09pm

RogueIce wrote:
SirNitram wrote:<SNIP>
Me like.

Yup, that's what I posted on page 1!

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-06-27 11:35pm

SirNitram wrote:*whistles all happy like*

Does this count as stirring the soup overmuch?
{snip}

I like the idea of spreading that information as far and as widely as possible. I might even break my "I hate email forwards" rule

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-06-28 01:52am

Ok, about Hatch wanting to blow up computers....

What about them using something similar to the CIH virus, which reflashes the bios, but ported to XP? (heard somewhere that XP gives administrator rights by default to regular users, so this would work.) Now they just have to make the user run it.