Comments on: RIAA attacks UC Berkeley

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:35:48 +0000

1. there is NO LAW on the books in America (possibly any country) that says “downloading song files is illegal” so just laugh at the idiots at the RIAA when they make stupid comments that contain “illegally downloading music”. Nor is there a law against “making available” — whatever that is supposed to mean.

2. the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has stated that if there are substantially non-infringing uses for a technology it can not be made illegal to use that technology.

3. universities need to be careful to not perform “prior restraint” (a legal term for making something illegal that they had been doing before there were rules against doing it) on their students: unless you know the INTENT of the person downloading a song file, you can not know if the purpose was legal or not! Duh!!

A journalist doing an article that compares and contrasts two singers has EVERY RIGHT to download two song files for purposes of comparison, and can even take excerpts from those songs and make them available as part of their article! And that is just a single example of a legal purpose for downloading/uploading songs. Obviously if you take it to an extreme you run afoul of the “reasonableness factor” so always maintain culpable deniability…

By: Robbo

Robbo — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:07:31 +0000

The RIAA is on a collision course with its own stupidity. The cultural backlash will only get bigger and the legal bitch slapping will be heard around the world. By the time they’re done they will be standing, pantless, powerless and utterly humiliated in the town square. Never give in to their extortion tactics. Go to EFF.org and find out how to defend yourselves and fight back. They are lying scum and their resources are nothing compared to the will of people enraged in the face of injustice. They are a dying, gasping, grasping dinosaur. Cheers.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:21:14 +0000

Well, with each set of lawsuits aimed at universities, we have an increasing amount of people blocking the lawsuit. The RIAA has accomplished making there presence more known at the universities, and with that more people are understanding the legal rights they have when targeted.

By: Alter_Fritz

Alter_Fritz — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:33:05 +0000

don’t claim victory to early!
Remember guys what a RIAA/IFPI insider has said some time ago;

“I am not concerned that people decide to take out law-suits against our organisations; we have the resources to deal with that.”

http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/06/14/an-ifpi-bpi-board-member-writes/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:07:50 +0000

If you are a student at Berkley do not settle! never settle never never settle! Give them hell instead!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:06:03 +0000

It is my job to make sure that the parasite at the RIAA understand the full consequence for persecuting the US citizen in the exercise of their constitutional right.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:03:20 +0000

The RIAA is right to continue to dig their grave.
They have to make sure that it is deep enought so that no piece stick out ans smell once they are in.

Thank you RIAA and have a rotten time in hell!