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p2pnet news | Music:- Here’s a thought for American students thinking of caving in to blackmail-cum-extortion letters being fired at them by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), with a little help from student administrations.
It’s from a brilliant article written by Anders Bylund for the Motley Fool, a site not normally known for this kind of observation:
Even if the Internet service provider keeps very detailed access logs, it’s nearly impossible to prove that a certain IP address was used by a particular person at any given time.
University of Chicago professor Mike O’Donnell would agree.
On IP addresses, “by itself an IP number on a packet has only suggestive value and is not reliable evidence at all,” he said recently.
Print it out and stick it on the main door to your dormitory.
And when you’ve done that, pass it on to your university legal department —- you know, the one that’s passing the RIAA letters on to you.
Very little payoff
Bylund also has a couple of thoughts which might interest all the organised music cartel employees such as Mitch Bainwol and Cary Sherman who are being handsomely paid for making so many people, so miserable.
Of the sue ‘em all lawsuits:
It’s a great way to alienate music fans, with very little payoff. The lawsuits have so far failed to stem the illegal downloading tide, and the costs must rival the settlement payoff by now.
And of Copyright:
It’s, “meant to encourage the creative process, not to fatten corporate coffers or limit the available means of distribution. Again, we haven’t seen any payouts to the actual artists and composers here, only to legal teams and company bankrolls.
Also See:
brilliant article - RIAA and the Music Luddites, September 24, 2007
Motley Fool - RIAA’s Day in Court Nearly Over, September 24, 2007
not reliable evidence at all - RIAA student victimisation campaign, July 21, 2007
so many people, so miserable - The RIAA and Rae-Jay Schwartz, September 24, 2007
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September 25th, 2007 at 1:59 am
Pleas please please! Do not settle! Do not settle! do not settle and do not settle!
Deny everything they can not prove a dam thing against you!
Even if they where to win and it is almost impossible if you show up in court and specially if you have a decent attorney. Just bankrupt! It is not the end of the world and they are screw-up!
The only thing to fear is fear itself said Roosvelt when about to take on the Japanese and German nazis.
Ask yourself what you can do for your country: simple, do not settle and that will cause these parasites who are damaging are society and discriditing or justice to fall.
Do not settle and your contry will be proud of you!
(It will be shiper for you too! Few thousand dollar you can keep for yourself and your studies!)