RIAA sophistry: telling it like it isn’t
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- A sophism is a specious argument and it’s a primary tool of spinsters such as the RIAA’s Cara Duckworth and her bosses, Mitch Bainwol and Cary Sherman.
They use it to make lies look lie truths.
“A sophist is a user of sophisms, i.e., an insincere person trying to confuse or deceive people,” says the Wikipedia.
And when Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA first used Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal to tell the world they were going to stop suing their own customers, it was sophistry.
Their RIAA is, set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy,” promised the WSJ, adding »»»
The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an email to the provider when it finds a provider`s customers making music available online for others to take.
Depending on the agreement, the ISP will either forward the note to customers, or alert customers that they appear to be uploading music illegally, and ask them to stop. If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether.
“AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Charter Communications,” said p2pnet. “Surely this group represents the principal US providers, does it not?
“And yet not one of these major ISPs felt able to confirm the bald, unequivocal RIAA statement that it’d ‘hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs’.”
“All I can tell you right now is that we have an agreement on principle with several leading ISPs but not all, and the agreement on principle is confidential,” said Duckworth said in an email.
There would, however, be exceptions and the Big 4 extortion unit would continue to try to sue (it has yet to win a case) certain file sharers in certain circumstances.
Cox has since climbed fully into bed with the labels, but the majority of major ISPs have yet to publicly say they, too, have committed to acting forcefully against their own customers on behalf of the corporate music industry.
“The RIAA is abandoning its strategy of suing individual file-swappers, and shifting towards ISP-level enforcement against infringers,” p2pnet had Digital Music News, saying, going on »»»
That was trumpeted by major labels over the pre-Christmas weekend, but a closer look reveals rather flimsy deals with ISPs, at least for now. We have agreements with some leading ISPs, RIAA executive Jonathan Lamy vaguely told Digital Music News on Monday, December 22nd, without naming names.
But not all. And the agreements are on principle.
In short, “it’s typical RIAA equine excreta with the mainstream media happily galloping along without any pretence of questioning its veracity,” we said.
Abandoned lawsuits
Now, “We are by and large dismissing all John Doe cases where we have not received a discovery order or a subpoena response, says Duckworth in Wired Campus.
“Of course, there are some exceptions,” she said, without naming which ones.
Meanwhile, “Music companies have already abandoned lawsuits against students at North Carolina State University, Rhode Island College, and the University of Michigan, the popular blog Recording Industry vs. the People reported,” says the story, continuing »»»
Ms. Duckworth confirmed those moves. All of this is meant to hasten our transition to a new day where the legal marketplace has blossomed to new heights, she said, and fans can have the best online music experience possible.
But some of those fans are still being implicated in the takedown notices the RIAA sends to colleges and universities. The industry group ditched its old evidence-gathering partner, MediaSentry, and now seeks out pirates with the Danish company DtecNet Software ApS.
The new partner seems to be working: Some campus officials noticed a significant spike in takedown notices last month. Cornell University said its numbers were higher than usual. Utah State University used to get two or three notices a week, but one day in January, it received 10. Also in one day, Indiana University got 63.
As before, administrators say they cannot be sure if the increases are a sign of more illegal file sharing, less-effective deterrence programs, or anything else.
The number of notices is not any indication of something working or not working, said Jonny Sweeny, incident-response manager and lead security analyst at Indiana. The copyright holders can send as many notices as they seem to want to.
In short, statements by La Duckworth and other RIAA sophists notwithstanding, the RIAA’s new We Won’t Sue ‘Em All tactic appears to be little more than a re-jig of the old one, with ISPs doing the Big 4’s dirty work as the RIAA pulls the strings in the background.
In April, 2008, “A significant number of senior US school and universities are noticing ‘an enormous spike‘ in Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices,” p2pnet reported.
Did this simply mean students were ramping up their file sharing activities?
No, a reliable source stated, “There’s no identifiable spike in bandwidth usage at the campus level.”
Stay tuned.
Wall Street Journal – Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits, December 19, 2008
it was sophistry – RIAA claims of ISP support: equine excreta, January 6, 2009
fully into bed – Vuze vs Cox the Copyright Cop, February 5, 2009
Wired Campus – RIAA Drops Lawsuits but Keeps the ‘Takedown’ Notices Coming, February 4, 2009
an enormous spike -Sudden `huge` spike in school DMCA notices, April 25, 2008
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February 6th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Sheeesh, it must be a real talent to be able to stack up one lie over the other and other and other and other till the truth is squished out of existence.
Would hate to be married to Cara Duckfu.., oops, I meant Duckworth… how the hell would you tell if she is being sincere or not?
Cara’s hubby:
Cara dear, was that good for you as well?
Are you sleeping with your boss..?
Are those children mine?
You say your knees are chapped why again?
/Ryan
http://www.eZee.se
February 7th, 2009 at 7:01 am
these people are all liars