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p2pnet news | RIAA News:- I’m still moving around without instant online access, but I’m checking in when I can and I’ve just read what could easily pass as an RIAA puff-piece disguised as a genuine, unbiased mainstream news story.
But it’s from the Reuters, not the Big 4 .
The RIAA is Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s principle propaganda / PR / disemblance unit in America and it has open door access to the mainstream corporate media.
“Deep inside the national headquarters of the Recording Industry Assn. of America (RIAA) is a purple room,” says the item in an example of purple prose, which goes on:
“Tinted windows shade the faces of young men and women working behind computer screens. They are part of the team investigating the illegal sharing of music files over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and they protect their identities carefully.”
Wow! “Protect their identities carefully.”
Are the “young men and women” employees of MediaSentry, the seriously discredited ” investigation” company used by the RIAA and similar Big 4 outfits sited strategically around the world?
And if they are, why is the so-called ‘trade’ association playing host to a purely commercial company ultimately answerable only to its shareholders?
And if they’re not, who are they, and what qualifies them to be spying on innocent Internet users 24/7 without their knowledge or permission?
“Since 2003, labels have filed more than 28,000 lawsuits against individual file sharers,” the story says, going on, “Only one suit has reached trial. Jammie Thomas, a single mother who was ordered by a federal jury in Minnesota last October to pay $222,000, is waiting for the federal court’s decision on her request for a new trial.”
It’s more like 40,000 suits, and Reuters also fails to mention the first trial was a travesty.
“In what’s likely be the worst upset yet for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG and their RIAA, a judge has admitted he made a ‘manifest error of law’ in ruling Jammie Thomas was guilty of copyright infringement,” p2pnet posted last month, going on:
“A federal jury in Duluth, Minnesota, decided Thomas had willfully infringed on the record label copyrights, awarding the labels $222,000 in damages.
We continued:
“Now, judge Michael Davis (right), who presided in the original Thomas case, is, ‘contemplating granting a new trial … on the grounds that the Court [Davis] committed a manifest error of law when, in Jury Instruction No. 15, it [he] instructed the jury that ‘[t]he act of making copyrighted sound recordings available for electronic distribution on a peer-to-peer network, without licensefrom the copyright owners, violates the copyright owners’ exclusive right of distribution, regardless of whether actual distribution has been shown’.”
The Reuters piece looks as if it was written word-by-word by RIAA employees and it’ll probably be taken by the uninformed as a credible presentation of what’s happening online, based on reliable material from reputable sources.
And if it fails to detail what really happened in the Jammie Thomas case, it also avoids all reference to other RIAA / Big 4 disasters, such as the one centering on Tanya Andersen who trounced the Big 4 and their RIAA, who’d tried, unsuccessfully, to paint her as a massive distributor of copyrighted music.
She’s now being forced to go through another long and painful process of compelling the RIAA to pay her what the courts have ruled it owes her.
p2pnet is biased in favour of RIAA victims and has never pretended to be otherwise.
However, Reuters is supposed to be a reliable, impartial news service presenting carefully balanced reports, not what look like spin pieces from hard-core commercial companies.
Stay tuned.
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June 9th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Yup, we’ve got so much power, that even when we’re blatantly caught out, we continue right on pulling the strings of our sock puppet media. hahahhahahha!!!! And you thought that Reuters was “neutral”? Grow up.
Just you wait and see, us and the rest of Big Media who’s “stars” you morons worship will have the law and infrastructure worldwide rigged so that you as much as *look* at a digital file the wrong way and we’ve got you! DRM dead? Don’t you believe it. It’s just hibernating…
And if you think this shit isn’t already happening to you, just remember ACTA: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080603/1247531301.shtml
June 9th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
On ACTA better yet > http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16053 and http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16050
June 9th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15000
And here in the comment are those who are higher up the ladder, and do not protect their identities at all.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Hey, are you really an RIAA rep? Coz you sound like you hate yourself, and they don’t. BTW I think the days of music idol worship are gone
June 10th, 2008 at 4:24 am
“a judge has admitted he made a ‘manifest error of law’ in ruling Jammie Thomas was guilty of copyright infringement”
In a normal business, if an executive commits a blunder similar in magnitude that executive would be forced to quit (the preferred method of firing executives). But judges are exempt of being fired after major blunders, even after sending an inocent person to jail or after deciding cases in favor of lawyer friends, which are all over the palce for picking like plums by the parties in a lawsuit. Its time to change the legal system and return it to the people.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:14 am
” Its time to change the legal system and return it to the people. ”
True, but only to a point.
Lynchings, Witch hunts ( yes, yhose witch hunts ) McCarthyism, etc … are what happens
when ‘Justice’ is in the ‘Peoples’ hands. It’s balance that is needed, but does not exist.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:46 am
“Reuters is supposed to be a reliable, impartial news service presenting carefully balanced reports, not what look like spin pieces from hard-core commercial companies”
Who care about Reuter and it’s rats!
The RIAA probably spent a fortune corrupting somebody at Reuter not knowing that Reuter is irrelevant since most people get their news from internet theses days.
Talk about a bunch of obsolete fogies infesting the major entertainement companies!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:43 am
the story isn’t by reuters originally, but by Billboard.
Last time I checked BB isn’t exactly known for its “wikipedia like” NPOV when it comes to reporting in their field of business which is (mostly) Evil4 music.
Those RIAA bastard do not even have scruples to blatantly lie to them/the press!
Give me a break!!
When was the last time that a name change of a file will alter its (CRC) hashvalue?
If that would be true, then would be dupefilefinders be useless.
And I can declare under penalty of perjury based on personal knowledge (not just thru the grapevine, but by personal viewing of it) that those dupefinders are not functionless just because one rip of a CD has another name.
And the argument that every rip is a bit different is nonsense also. Unless some busy MAFIAA monkeys handcraft every single CD that is for sale seperately with slightly different digital songdata, there are thousands of CDs out there that produce EXACTLY the same resulting files no matter what Operating system or what software used to read those “perfect digital copies” of the CDs, As long as the software used to read the digital data makes sure it really just writes EXACTLY the same bitinformation to the HDD as it is found on the CDs then EVERY copy out there will hash the same way and yet 2 particular songs could be ripped by 2 different persons on 2 different countries, if they used the same exactsource CD data and used the same mp3 encoder with the exact same settings the results will be 100% identical even though the used both their own purchased CD for exercising the fair use of transcoding their CDs themself!
But what should we expect?
“RIAA-still national lead counsel but soon to be judge himself (man would I feel ashamed if I were a honorable judge in that court where a vulture like gabriel is appointed to that me would get such a bad apple as collegue!)-Richard” spouted that lie already in one of the interviews after the sua sponte remark of the thomas case judge!
Me mentioned that new tactic by RIAA already here
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/05/judge-in-capitol-v-thomas-says.html?showComment=1210953780000#c267086126627253024
June 10th, 2008 at 10:45 am
you know what i just don’t understand,and i be as quilty as all others is why we let the record companies and movie studios run the government!?? i mean we are untold numbers out here and we still let them call all the shots!! i tried sometime ago to gather a group together and i mean a real group that would combine the people,the law and nothing happened!! this should have been stopped in it’s tracks the first time lars whats his twit from the heavy metal wanna bes started his first law suite! ah well may be some one will deceide to try again.i’ll help if i canmaybe if it’s serious.we here in my beloved Canada are now facing the threat by the us puppet government we have in power now! we got’s to try to fight the good fight peoples,there are cracks starting to apear,we just have to widen them!!
be well all
June 10th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Hashes can be easily changed. Make the track slightly longer with a blank space, the data a bit bigger with an image included, and the hash they look for is no longer there.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
“Hashes can be easily changed.”
Yes of course. but that is not the point this time:
The point is the opposite that RIAA (so far only in front of “the press and the court of public oppinion” but not perjuring like in front of judges) claim that if they find files with the SAME hash, that that is “proof” that one of the instances must be illegaly downloaded by the guy where that identical hash showed up.
As pointed out that argument is a blatantly lie since the source material (the “perfect digital copies” produced by the RIAA members themself) is exactly that 100& identical for each pressed dics where the same glass master in the plastic molding machine is used.
back in the 90’s me visited as a class project one of those factories that produce those legitimate companies for “pressed” disks, And the guy that showed us the factory explained in detail how this process of creating industrial style “pressed” MAFIAA-disks is tailored to the fact that every disk is identical to the first master.