RIAA uses Kiddie Porn in Usenet attack
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- “I’ve been digging on this pulling of large sections of newsgroup access by major American ISPs, and I thought I’d give you a link to my write-up on what I’ve uncovered,” says Alexander Wehr in an email.
The heading to his Slashdot note, posted yesterday, is, RIAA and State AG’s Wage War On Usenet.
The RIAA is always waging war against someone on behalf of its masters, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG, so it’s no surprise to find them targeting Usenet post, although it took them quite a while to zero in. And kiddie porn has long been a weapon used by the labels in their fight to gain total control of online music distribution by suing their own customers.
“As many are well aware from recent slashdot postings, several ISP’s have pulled usenet access, ranging from the entirety of alt.* to all newsgroups period, under threats of child pornography lawsuits from NY attorney general Cuomo,” says Wehr, continuing >>>
Unfortunately, the true depth of this action is going unnoticed.
Moderate digging on this issue shows a tangled web of State AG’s nationwide and MediaDefender, the RIAA’s hired goons.
Emails leaked from MediaDefender show the formation of the rationale, and less publicised stories elesewhere illuminate strings being pulled nationwide.
“‘We are in effect starting a technological arms race that we’ve got to have the will and the resolve to see through,’ said Bill Stewart, deputy chief of staff for Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum. ‘Once we tackle U.S. Internet service providers, this traffic will move to another venue.’”
This is a noticeable escalation, adding to their lawsuit against usenet.com, which will be used as a precedent to shut down any remaining private carriers who dare to carry unrestricted newsgroups.
Unable to gain generalized internet filtering or blanket bans of protocols such as bit torrent or NTTP through legislation, these interest groups are now making an end run around the constitutional and legislative protections which keep our internet open and free, passing off this direct affront to the massive public movement for net neutrality to the main stream press as an effort against child pornography.
Further, the readiness with which these ISP’s are acquiescing to this scare campaign will set a precedent which these media interests will doubtless leverage in pursuit of further legislation (read “ACTA”) requiring internet filtering and additional censorship.
“Internet service providers Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable will sharply restrict their customers’ access to child pornography under an agreement New York officials announced Tuesday,” says the St Petersburg Times.
“Enjoy the read, and be glad that’s not Canada, yet : /,” adds Weh in his email.
‘Yet’ is, of course, the operative word (read ACTA).
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St Petersburg Times – Moves target Internet child porn, June 11, 2008
read ACTA – ACTA ‘veil of secrecy’, June 10th, 2008
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June 17th, 2008 at 5:14 am
The threats made to ISPs about Usenet were made by the AG of NY – which is ironically the same state where it seems the recording industry has historically chosen to file many of its federal lawsuits.
Coincidence?
June 17th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Many are missing the point. It seems that readers and bloggers alike are suggesting that somehow some or all of Usenet will be blocked everywhere. Look closer and you see that the FREE news servers provided by the ISP itself are being shut down or censored. Pay servers like Giganews are not affected. The real complaints come from the few users who actually got a good free news server. Many if not most users had an almost worthless server with very limited retention or a capped download. ISPs simply wanted to save what little money they were spending on these servers. Some announced they were dumping them before the Kiddy thing made news. If ISPs could really block all Usenet traffic and all p2p traffic they wouldn’t need caps as there would be nothing to download.
June 17th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Actually media Defender, Media Sentry and few others pARASTITIC “business” from the same species are actually constantly poisoning Usenet and p2p network with kidiporn to force governement legislations. It is like antipiraberans planitng evidences on servers in Sweden.
There is only two solutions to this problem:
The first and obvious one is to expend the boycott further to kill the major entairtainement company ASAP.
The second will be used if the first one fail and if I was one of the parasite infesting the entertainement industry I would not want to reach this point. Moreover, sooner or latter someone will lose patience and start applying the second in despite the fact the first solution is making great progress. These guys are playing with fire and risc termination.
As far as I am concerned it does not matter what law is passed or what tricks are used I will never again buy anything from the music and movie parasites. Period!
DO LIKE ME PLEASE: BOYCOTT EVERYTHING RIAA AND MPAA!
And as far as fucking up Internet is concerned they must understand that it is not just Internet it is the technology. There is alternativeS to internet for file exchange and there is nothing thesel criminals can do about this.
The March of progress is unstopable!