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Re: Verizon to tip off John & Jane Doe? said by cmptrblder:
I wonder if Verizon tips off John & Jane Doe and they close there accounts, well, there no longer customers. Would Verizon still be required to turn over the names? There no longer there customers.
yea and we could all go back to dial up for a couple of months and put the screws to the isp's to  |
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| . what i dont get is why these groups go after little things mp3s big whoop, 20$ a cd or whatver... i know people that have many big name expensive apps worth thousands of dollars -- EACH. why go after people who trade mp3s, simple, its not very hard to catch them (since most of these people dont know what a proxy is or any way of anonymousity) and secondly because theres so many mp3s, its not very hard to accuse a person of having it, and it turns out they have a few, since probably about 80% of the population does. They are just out to set an example by trying to punish these "excessive downloaders/sharers" in hopes that people will give up this "*illegial*" activity. Its the 21st century, computers are everywehre, there will ALWAYS be a way to spread pirated music/movies/software maybe not to the average computer user, but to the more "technically inclined" people its not hard to find something. They need to figure ways they can make money over the internet, THAT WORKS, not some 2$ a song garbage. |
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Re: Verizon to tip off John & Jane Doe? Is it just me or is the RIAA tip toeing around paying our elected officials to pass bull$hit laws? Yes, this info is all through the tech sector but you hear NOTHING or next to nothing about it on the news.
PA reps. here don't even give a $hit, many people as well as myself only get automated letters back. Well guys, for all the automated toilet paper your sending out to YOUR voters, I'm one person that won't be on your "voter" list come election time.
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| It's my opinion that they are simply buying enough politicians to get the laws they want. (Why argue the point in public/news when a a couple hundred million in campaign contributions will do the job)
They aren't even bothering to "tip toe" around because the US news media doesn't understand the issues, so the media won't report on anything they don't think will add to their ratings.
Remember the ad campaign "Buy drugs, support a terrorist"??
Time for a new one. "Buy a CD from these labels / groups, and support the RIAA" (A terrorist organization IMNSHO, maybe even the new "Axis of Evil")
The RIAA's actions show them to specialize in using to US legal system to commit terrorist acts. What difference is it to ruin someone's life with a bomb, or a pack of lawyers?? In either case the goal is achieved: Make your political point by ruining someone else's life to scare the general public.
I think the RIAA's actions constitute legal harassment and intimidation. And, unfortunately the chances of finding someone with enough money to fight them is measured with a snowball and a blowtorch.
If the music buying public can wake-up enough to protest, then there is a chance. Otherwise, bend over and take what the RIAA is dishing out. |
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Cyron
join:2002-09-24
Charlotte, NC | If buying drugs supports terrorist, should our government legalize drugs? |
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