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.

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

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!

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.

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.

And here in the comment are those who are higher up the ladder, and do not protect their identities at all.

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