RIAA p2p site goes down
p2pnet.net news:- “The RIAA is launching its own p2p site,” p2pnet posted on Tuesday, going on:
“But not because it’s owners, Warner Music (US), EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), have suddenly seen the stupidity of trying to sue their own customers into buying ‘product’.
“To the contrary, http://www.p2plawsuits.com/ (as it’ll be) represents an escalation in the RIAA extortion scheme, a move to streamline the process so the Big 4 can add more victims’ scalps to their belts, faster, lending credence to their false claims that the sue ‘em all campaign is stemming the swelling tides of people who are logging onto the p2p networks every minute of every day.”
The site was parked on GoDaddy. BUT —-
— it also featured a Google Adsense area promoting music download sites.
Was this a clever new way for the Big 4 Organized Music cartel to raise money for all its hard-pressed contracted artists?
Unlikely.
Meanwhile, both the parking space and the Google ads have now disappeared and if the labels are smart, that’s the way it’ll stay.
Also See:
p2pnet posted – RIAA ‘extortion’ letter to ISPs, February 13, 2005
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February 19th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
i wish i was a fly on the wall when the RIAA dudes discovered that the automated google ads were popping up everywhere on their site going “DOWNLOAD FREE MUSIC HERE”.
Priceless.