RIAA screws over some dudes @ my uni

[Inverse Icarus]

some links:

slashdot article
riaa press release
chewplastic forums

basically, this kid is getting sued for over 90 BILLION DOLLARS for making nothign more than an interface to an already existing service (network file sharing).

GAH!!!!

theres also another kid that's got the same deal, but he's been much quieter about it.

we're planning to raise money / hold a rally for this kid. what are your views?

[Ari Rahikkala]

You're going to raise 97 billion dollars? Good luck .

[Pekka]

So this wasn't anything sexual? I was thinking RIAA is playing hardball now.

90 Billion Dollars? I lost all my words, my mind is now blank. Help your buddy, he needs all support he gets..

[Az]

do they accept credit cards? He might need a little help for refinanacing.



oh, and obviously, complete bull****.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm too lazy to surf those forums.

Where's the 90 billion dollars?

[Az]

If I knew the answer to that question, I wouldn't be sitting here.

[monkspider]

90 billion dollars? What a joke.

[monkspider]

Here is another link on the story. http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/6403
Obviously this is an attempt to intimidate the college students of the world into not sharing files. Of course, this will do little other than convince more people not to buy RIAA products, for fear of funding the "evil empire".

[Victor Galis]

Ooh, the RIAA article on their actions is as laden with bias as Faux News. Wow, it's even factually inaccurate

The perpetrators of these internal Napster networks named in the suits filed by the RIAA make use of software known variously as Flatlan, Phynd or Direct Connect. All of them work much like Napster, centrally indexing and processing search requests for copyrighted works. And they permit users to download any of those works with the single click of a mouse.

-As well as anything else which is being shared which might not be copyrighted, but of course that part escapes the RIAA. To be really pedantic: Oh, and last I checked, all you can do with a single mouse click is select a file, not also download it.

[Ari Rahikkala]

/me hopes that the guy who develops Phynd will prove that his search engine is not illegal itself and thus the lawsuit is frivolous (or something, IANAL and don't even watch those who play ones on TV)... then sue RIAA for 90 billion dollars, saying "Hey, at least you can afford it... can you? " *

Of course it's pointless! That's the... point of this post!

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Victor Galis Oh, and last I checked, all you can do with a single mouse click is select a file, not also download it.

But "with a single click of a mouse" makes it sound much more easy than "with a double-click of a mouse." Clearly that gives them the right to distort their facts, no?

[Jaguar]

BTW I love how communists, democrats, republicans, and libertarians can all agree on one thing.

[Urban Ranger]

ROTFLAMO! Get ACLU and Electronic Frontier to give him a hand.

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
BTW I love how communists, democrats, republicans, and libertarians can all agree on one thing.

I agree! It is my favorite part of RIAA threads. Even a rightist, MS fanboy like Asher hates the RIAA!

"Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together...."

[Ramo]

Yep, the RIAA is like Speer or Giannie.