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Comments on news posted 2002-11-21 14:03:08: The RIAA's anti-file trading PR website, otherwise known as MusicUnited.org, found itself with egg on its face yesterday as the site posted peer to peer disabling instructions belonging to the University of Chicago. ..


fifty nine

join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ
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Wonderful. Now arrest them for piracy.

Absofreakinglutely hilarious. I hope the RIAA gets a taste of their own medicine.

rds24a
Teach Your Children
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join:2000-12-13
Newton Upper Falls, MA

Re: Wonderful. Now arrest them for piracy.

Based on that, I would be led to believe that the RIAA supports downloading of files as long as you don't upload them.
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Time for DMCA

@mindspring.com
Time to call the feds and use the DMCA. After all, doesn't the RIAA claim that's what DMCA is for? Let 'em have it in the end! Bend'em Over!
holymage

join:2002-03-19
York, ON
If I remember right this is the second time the RIAA has been caught with stolen copyright material on their websites. The first was only 3 or 4 months ago.

On that basis a full investigation could be launched.

jj

Cuchulainn
The Roar of the Masses Could be Farts

join:2000-11-09
Chevy Chase, MD

Irony

Like something out of a Kafka novel. Now let's get the BSA to audit them and see how many unlicensed copies of Office they have!
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djdanska
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Re: Irony

Oh, that would just be great! Even better if they found divx movies (dvd rips) off of kazaa on the computers too. LoL
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garagerock
Premium
join:2002-06-14
Louisville, KY
said by Cuchulainn:
Like something out of a Kafka novel. Now let's get the BSA to audit them and see how many unlicensed copies of Office they have!

And all flavors of Windows, WordPerfect, NAV, Mcafee, Doom, Access, Word, PowerPoint, WinZip, NFL Fever 2000, Excel, ArcServe 2000, Macola Accounting, Sim City, etc. etc. etc.

Bastards.
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You're the criminal that never breaks the law.

fifty nine

join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ
kudos:1

Re: Irony

And how many MP3's that are on their employees' hard drives.
DonLibesBad

join:1999-12-10
Potomac, MD

Re: Irony

According to »www.cryogenius.com/dmca.htm, violations of the DMCA can be as high as $500,000 and 5 years in prison. We can only hope.

Cuchulainn
The Roar of the Masses Could be Farts

join:2000-11-09
Chevy Chase, MD

Re: Irony

Does this mean we can look forward to a new prison band, Rosen in Chains???

garagerock
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Louisville, KY

Re: Irony

said by Cuchulainn:
Does this mean we can look forward to a new prison band, Rosen in Chains???
Better yet, Dinosaur Sr.

First single - "Highway to Hilary"
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Polaris5
All Hail, The Vulture From Van Nuys

join:2002-03-26
old RIA of A
RIAA employees won't have any MP3's or divx rips on their hard drives. They get their music and movies for free, and you pay for it!

It's part of the "free goods" charge, which is built into the wholesale price of the product, charged to the retailer and passed on to you!

It's a marketing strategy with the purpose of promoting the product to retailers and other industry participants. Don't ask me how promotion occurs when the product is passed out to RIAA or entertainment company employees. Word of mouth?

Cuchulainn
The Roar of the Masses Could be Farts

join:2000-11-09
Chevy Chase, MD

Re: Irony

That's very true. Good point!

SRFireside

join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX
I don't think the free goods charge goes to all the record company employees to have all the free records and DVD's they want. The execs, managers, mixing engineers, producers, lawyers (oh the humanity!), and hit writers might get a grab at the freebees but I doubt Rufus the mailroom clerk or Betty in accounts receivable are getting anything but donuts on Friday.

They do happen to do a lot of music giveaways by the way. Ever wonder about when a radio station says, "I have the new *insert artist here* CD here for the 35th caller." comes from? Also giveaways have to done for other corporate decision makers like the record and outlet stores and such. Lets not forget that Payola has to come from somewhere. I doubt they would have it as such in their accounting books.
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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Dallas, TX

Can you say hypocrisy?

Looks like Rosen and company need to be exposed for the
hypocrites they are. "Do as I say, not as I do, " goes a
rather appropriate quote.

Microhard3

join:2001-08-03
Huntington Beach, CA

...


dan221081

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Re: ...

LOL

Moon Sugar

join:2002-09-22
Chicago, IL
MEGA LOL!!!

Shipon
Roflcopter
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Anaheim, CA
said by Microhard3:

Apparently, they don't realize that it should actually read "When you buy a CD, you're downloading Communism".
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fifty nine

join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ
kudos:1

Re: ...

quote:
Apparently, they don't realize that it should actually read "When you buy a CD, you're downloading Communism".
Actually, when you buy a CD you are just making the rich get richer, so I don't think its communism.

aitech
Guru. Kneel

join:2000-12-19
Boston, MA

SUE SUE SUE!!

University of Chicago should sue the RIAA for copyright infringement, and they have a case.

DO IT!!!

NicoleDiana6
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Georgia

Re: SUE SUE SUE!!

said by aitech:
University of Chicago should sue the RIAA for copyright infringement, and they have a case.

DO IT!!!
That would be very interesting! I wish they would sue the RIAA!
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c0mmander

join:2001-10-03

Re: SUE SUE SUE!!

when you buy a CD, you're supporting fascism

fifty nine

join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ
kudos:1

Re: SUE SUE SUE!!

quote:
when you buy a CD, you're supporting fascism
When you buy a CD, you're giving them money to pay lawyers to sue you!

KeepOnRockin
Music Lover Forever
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join:2002-11-08
Beaverton, OR
Buy a CD? What's that? People actually buy those things still? Not me.



lol.

SRFireside

join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX
When you buy a CD you get an aluminum disk covered in plastic that holds a digital recording. Lets not get all freaky liberal here about it. If you like an artist just buy the damn CD. Stop moaning about how the record industry bleeds all the profits out of the sale. You are still supporting the artist.

The RIAA and its commanding members don't have that long to enjoy their totalitarian rule over the music industry. The people have spoken regarding high CD prices and pre-fabricated music acts. There WILL be a shift in the powerbase. Mark my words. But saying that buying music is only furthering the RIAA monster is ignoring that you are hurting the artist as well. Record sales mean a lot to the success of a musician.
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DEFF

@141.156.x.x

Re: SUE SUE SUE!!

Well, then maybe the artists will finally stand up and get their fair share by telling the RIAA to take a hike. Music will not die if the RIAA disappears...actually it would thrive as we would have more choices and variety.

krinkle442
Love, Hate, Love

join:2001-11-19
Portsmouth, OH

Wow

so that was legitimately a mistake? I mean, how does one accidentally post instructions to disable I-mesh?
pilinipsi

join:2002-11-26

No Google Cache - is the fix in?

Trying the Google cache record link returns this:

Your search - cache:5WwVc7a2sHAC:www.musicunited.org/5_takeoff.html "Select the Options item from the Tools menu" - did not match any documents.

The Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) also does not have anything for www.musicunited.org/5.takeoff.html

Scientology has already gotten to The Wayback Machine via the DMCA. Did the RIAA similarly "fix" this problem?

Has anybody thought about the problem on the Web that a site can say something on a page, then change the page and say "We never said that..."? Unless someone else made a copy of the original page, there's no record. This is like the "memory hole" in George Orwell's 1984.

Just my $0.02...

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