p2pnet - rss feed: The RIAA chooses Linux
p2pnet.net news:- How’s this for supreme irony? Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), arch enemy of anything which smacks even remotely of independence, competition or openness, has moved to Linux, the open source operating system.
Don’t you love the way it says, “Welcome to RIAA” like it’s a country, or something, rather than just a two-bit corporate copyright cop?
Says xseedit on Slashdot:
The RIAA has moved their main Web site www.riaa.com from IIS on Win2003 to Apache 2.2.3 on Red Hat. It appears that the move did not go smoothly as it resulted in an 8-hour downtime starting yesterday around noon, according to Netcraft. And the RIAA is still showing a ‘temporarily under construction’ page.
They also moved their DNS from the small company that had been hosting them for the past 4 years, Tomorrow’s Solutions Today (TST Inc.), to Mindshift Technologies. One can only guess what happened here, but the move seems to have been sudden and unplanned. They still haven’t moved the riaa.org, riaa.net, and musicunited.org domains — those are still pointing to the TST nameservers that no longer accept queries for those domains. TST Inc. deserves credit, however. They seem to have managed to host the RIAA quite successfully for the past 4 years. Will Mindshift do a better job hosting one of the most reviled, and therefore most attacked, Web sites in the world? I wonder if anybody at the RIAA or TST would care to comment on the reasons behind this sudden move.
Could it be that the RIAA is being sued by its hosting provider? Or perhaps the sue-happy organizaiton is suing its provider?
The RIAA site was still offline when we went for a look at 7:15 am Pacific.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
Slashdot - RIAA Web Site Moved To Linux, June 17, 2007
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July 23rd, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Complete bulshit spin (as usual for this site!)
First, there’s nothing “ironic” in the RIAA choosing Linux as opposed to Micro$uck’s bloat-ware, for two very obvious reasons:
1. Most of the Linux scene is agressively pro-copyright, all of their “copyleft” blather to the contrary. As I’ve stated numerous times before, the all-precious GPL couldn’t be enforced to prevent “tivo-ization” or any of Stallman’s other pet peeves, if it wasn’t for the fact that the software licensed under GPL is (grin-wink) COPYRIGHTED!
Yes, the REAL “irony” here is the hypocrites on this site who spend huge amounts of time and effort defending the rampant disregard for copyright, while simultaneously bleating on and on about GPL V. 3.
I don’t buy it.
Of course, nobody who reads this site will actually see the difference between using software which is LICENSED TO PERMIT AND ENCOURAGE widespread distribution/modification/use, and p2p sites apps whose primary function (despite all of the rhetorical spin) is to facilitate violation of copyright, but hey….
(Keep in mind that I’m not neccesarily the unswerving advocate of copyright that people might believe me to be from my comments on this site. I also don’t neccesarily think all copyright-violation is bad. But I really resent it when people attempt to camoflage their actions, and sidestep the actual issues. The fact his that under current copyright law, most of what occurs on p2p/bittorent is “illegal”, and as such, potentially opens one up to penalties.
I would suspect that a significant amount of the people on this site would approve of (let’s say) the FSF attempting to prosecute over a violation of the GPL. Double standard? Damn right….but the fact is that Stallman is also (ironically) not regarded as a corporate pig (primarily because his org. is a nonprofit, and we ALL know that Nonprofits always mean well, and for-profit companies are always evil.)
So no. The only “irony” here would be if the RIAA (whose primary beef is that people are violating copyright, and mostly don’t give a shit) were to violate the terms of Linux’s licensing (thus violating copyright themselves.)
Try putting some actually logic, reasoning, or quality reporting into it next time.