New RIAA charge: illegal Twittering
p2pnet news view P2P | RIAA:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA has a new spurious charge for Boston doctoral student Joel Tenenbaum »»»
- Using Twitter in a manner likely to encourage people not to take RIAA bullshit seriously.
“In July, a federal jury ordered Mr. Tenenbaum to pay $675,000 to record labels for downloading and distributing 30 songs by several artists, including Nirvana, Eminem, and the Beastie Boys,” says Wired Campus. “Now, it says Mr. Tenenbaum is encouraging others to illegally download music as well. On Tuesday, it filed for injunctive relief in a federal court in Massachusetts.”
The story goes on, “In August, a person upset about the court’s decision posted the list of the songs named in the case on The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, encouraging others to download them in protest.”
It’s referring to a post by The Saint, who, in two Reader’s Writes, also told p2pnet about the Joel Tenenbaum $675,000 Playlist.
“All the 30 songs already available via torrent,” he said. “http://itoodownloadedthem.blogspot.com.”
With the list went the pic on the right, and on his site, “We can’t change the world by one campaign, but we can make it clear,” says The Saint.
From now on, “whenever anybody on this planet get sued for downloading and sharing any kind of art, we too will download and share it too. We will make it clear: by suing individuals for downloading stuff, they will just share it with everybody.”
Joel’s legal team, “noticed people downloading the track list and posted a note on Twitter in mid-August: ‘interesting: a ‘joel’ torrent list of the 30 songs is now on thepiratebay/other torrent sites and is being DL widely in protest’,” says Wired Campus.
Now, Cara Duckworth (right), the RIAA’s vice president for communications, said in an interview on Thursday the message is “a clear example of him thumbing his nose at the verdict and not taking us seriously,”it says.
She admitted Joel probably wasn’t behind the posting on Pirate Bay, “but argued that he should not encourage others to look at the Web site”.
In an interview with The Boston Globe, Joel said he’d had nothing to do with track list, or the tweet from his legal team.
“It’s something that Pirate Bay just did on its own,” he told the Globe. “I don’t know who got the idea to put it up there. But we thought it was funny.”
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Wired Campus – RIAA Says Student Continues to Encourage Illegal Downloading, September 3, 2009
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September 4th, 2009 at 11:57 am
I downloaded the torrent then use it to download the 30 crappy “”songs” and now I am seeding on BT and sharing on Emule and Limewire at the same time!
Take that parasites! We don’t need peices of shit like you in our society.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Not dear RIAA/MPAA parasite,
It doesnt matter what you do, It does not matter what you say, We will never again buy any shit from you!
PERIOD!
try to stuff that into your micro dinosaur brains if you can.
Also a warning: your are foolish!
September 4th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Continue to download and share the 30 Tenenbaum’s songs!
Thanks!
September 4th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
So umm why haven’t the artists come to his aid?
September 4th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
“So umm why haven’t the artists come to his aid?”
What would you have them do? It seems they are NOT in control of the works, as it was the RIAA member record companies that sued.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
If I had a twitter account I would auto-twit 0day releases of mp3’s to the riaa
September 4th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Joel must not speak.
I think the next logical move is to remove access online.
September 4th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Even though he didn’t make the tweet himself, isn’t it free speech? Or is it inciting an online riot, which is not dangerous in the least?
September 4th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
“Or is it inciting an online riot, which is not dangerous in the least?”
well infringment is way worse than murder and rape, so inciting online riots has got to be at least 10X worse than inciting actual riot.
September 4th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Keep sharing everything! Support freedom! Support Sharing !
September 4th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Proudly downloaded and seeded that torrent. Fuck you, RIAA.
September 4th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
The MAFIAA (Music And Film Industry Association of America) is just making martyrs… And we all know what happened in the past.
September 4th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
“Cara Duckworth , the RIAA’s vice president for communications, said in an interview on Thursday the message is “a clear example of him thumbing his nose at the verdict and not taking us seriously,”it says.”
Ummmm You Think? along with millions of others, Damn Skippy I know I am
September 4th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I read this twice. The title says “illegal twittering” I don’t see anywhere were someone who twittered got in deep trouble or was fine. All I see is that it was in response to someone being fined.
September 4th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
ok, i wasn’t gonna download it cause all the songs are shite but what the hell o.k..FUCK YOU RIAA BITCHIS.
September 5th, 2009 at 9:54 am
” “So umm why haven’t the artists come to his aid?”
“What would you have them do? It seems they are NOT in control of the works, as it was the RIAA member record companies that sued.”
As has been mentioned before you are correct, most of them are not the copyright holders.
Most people are under the false impression that the copyright holder always = the artist.
This ‘mispercepction’ is deliberately reinforced by the mass media which is owned by the
same corporations that own the labels ( a pretty obvious conflict of interest ).
Also, artists still under contract with a major label are likely to be contractually obligated to keep their
pieholes shut, or get sued by their uber-wealthy leash holders.
You’ll notice that the few that DO speak up are usually old timers that have finally been released from their
contracts.
Those folks are oddities, since usually only death frees you from a label contract.
If it weren’t for the fact that Satan would be pissed at them they would find a way
to extend the contract to post mortem as well.
September 6th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
“Also, artists still under contract with a major label are likely to be contractually obligated to keep their pieholes shut, or get sued by their uber-wealthy leash holders.”
I always love your posts Dreddsnik. Besides being truthful and straight to the point, you also have a way with words that I’m envious of.
September 7th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Methinks Ms Duckworth pretty much did her own credibility in with the diatribe she posted on the RIAA site.
http://www.riaa.com/blog.php?content_selector=Musings-On-Tenenbaum-Case (don’t go there unless you HAVE to…. let’s not encourage these people…..) If we make their web page too popular they’ll start selling google click throughs to make more money.
I mean after a self effacing piece of propoganda like that – who did she think would take her or the RIAA seriously?
according to Alexa internet users are far less interested in the RIAA since Ms Duckworth startted blogging.
Daily time on site for riaa.com: -12%
Daily pageviews per user for riaa.com: -7%
The hits are up – but people only stay for 1.9 minutes.
I guess most people know the appearance, smell and texture of crap.
The R.I.A.A. would win a lot more friends if it didnt try to comingle outright and obviously misleading propoganda with its victory celebrations.