Comments on: Sudden ‘huge’ spike in school DMCA notices

By: B_Easy24

B_Easy24 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:14:18 +0000

Seems likethe RIAA make it a point of duty to shake down these university studentts, smell like extrotion to me. Why wonLt someone just countersue these bastard and let then know that suing ppl is net the why you keep your consumer base.

By: Stray Mongrel

Stray Mongrel — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:53:46 +0000

Easy Targets. They are on large networks that somehow can be monitored by them (legally or illegally). My sharing is more sporadic (locationwise) in comparison.

What they are not considering is that all the younger siblings to these college students are learning to hate the RIAA also, and future generations will have zero sympathy towards their corporate copyright whining.

Stealing the education of a student is more morally reprehensible than downloading a song.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:31:56 +0000

Its the end of the school year.
Students will take summer jobs.
the RIAA/MPAA wants their cut of that summer income.

What better way to get it.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:05:27 +0000

Instead of everyone sucking up to and encouraging them they should have opposed them right from the start. Then they’d HAVE no power now.

By: roz

roz — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:04:22 +0000

It’s very easy to see the reasons behind the spike, especially regarding the RIAA.

They know that Mr. Gabriel’s tactics are finally coming around to haunt them, now that public exposure may be upon them if discovery starts in the Anderson case.

The other major issue is that the lack of licensing for SafeNet/Media Sentry as a private investigator will soon be hit very hard in ongoing cases.

This is a bad double hit, so the best tactic for them is to produce a flood of notices before people wise up and hope that many of them will pay the extortionate “settlement fee”.

After this flood, there will be a hiatus for a while as the RIAA makes some major changes to their methodology. The first is that SafeNet/Media Sentry will no longer be retained due to their lack of appropriate licenses. The RIAA may purchase licensing/rights to SafeNet/Media Sentry “technology” and have the actual “investigative” work done in house or by appropriately licensed investigators, or they may opt to go with some of the licensed investigative firms who have approached them due to rumors that SafeNet/Media Sentry is going to be canned.

Mr. Gabriel will have to explain to the RIAA that the costs of the resumed campaign will increase significantly due to the fact that more judges are considering sanctions regarding the improper joinder of numerous Does. This will entail billable hours and filing fees for each Doe.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:48:31 +0000

No…that’s the money you give your lawyer that gets used as toilet paper…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:25:11 +0000

“The “law” is what a random judge decides it is.”

Fuke the random judge! We can use him/her as toilet paper too!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:24:13 +0000

Whatever the RIAA/MPAA/CRIAA whatever do it will not make us go bake and give money to these parasites! Even if they kill internet we will never ever conduct business with these pigs! No way!

If evryone was boycotting them it would take less than a year to bring them on the ground. Instead this is these slow painful death during which these parasites are inflicting damages to our society in the process.

The Boycott is growing, yes, and this is good news, but we need to speed up the growth, in order to mitigate the damages these bag of crap are inflicting to our societies.

No CD, No download, no DVD no cable and no movie theater! Not a penny should go to Vivendi/Universal(CBS, ABC, NBC,Fox) Sony/BMG, EMI or Time Warner.

Boycott! Boycott! Boycot! Boycott!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:16:32 +0000

The “law” is what a random judge decides it is.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:09:10 +0000

The DMCA is an inconstitutional law so if you recieve a DMCA notice you can use it as toilet paper just like the law itself. DMCA is a non law. It is nule and non-enforcable. Any attempt to enforce the DMCA is a crime punishable by fines an prisons terms. This is the law.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:42:51 +0000

Maybe the stupid fucking universities should have never gotten into bed with the devil?