RIAA fined $8 million
p2pnet.net News:- Here’s a thought from a p2pnet reader.
If you’re in the US or anywhere else that the entertainment industry cartels are getting heavy with lawsuits, don’t wait for the RIAA or MPAA (or your local version) to get on your case.
Get on theirs.
Read on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You can fine the RIAA and MPAA.
Just like the government court system, you have the equipment to back up your punishment.
I would like to encourage everyone to snail-mail a notice of violation to the RIAA and MPAA whenever they announce another round of lawsuits.
Instead of police goons, guns, and such, your weapon of choice is your computer, p2p software, newsreader, and web browser. It is time to use them! Notice should be anonymous (none of your fingerprints either) like their Jane Doe lawsuits and should say something like this.
To:
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
1330 Connecticut Ave. NW, Ste. 300
Washington, DC 20036-1704
202-775-0101
202-775-7253
From:
Offices of Joe & Jane Public
777 Anystreet, AnyCity, US
It has been brought to the attention of the music consumers of America that you have engaged in the tortuous activity of extortion by use of frivolous lawsuits in contradiction of Fair Use Provision of Title 17, USC Section 107.
I hereby find the RIAA guilty of extortion for its threatening to sue its customers. I hereby impose a fine of $64.00.
Since the RIAA refuses to pay the fine, I hereby impose a 100% garnishment on the revenues for the next 4 purchases of CD’s. Further lawsuits or threats of lawsuits will result in stiffer fines.
You are hereby informed that you are subject to fines as listed below:
- Infraction…………………………………Maximum Fine (per victim)
- Threat of frivolous lawsuit………………….$128.00
- Launch of frivolous notice of lawsuit…………………$10,000.00
- Actual Filing of frivolous lawsuit…………………………$8,000,000.00
You will hereby apologize at (http://www.p2pnet.net or any other well known p2p news site) and cease any pending frivolous action against any person who is your customer. Failure to do so will result in fines up to and including the maximum listed above for each violation. Failure to pay any imposed fine will result in deduction from monies earned via sales.
This notice is backed by p2p software and underground networks.
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Now, we need a way to strike back at the RIAA’s courtroom buddies (Judges) and politicians.
They also need to be held accountable for their actions.
Anybody have any ideas?
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February 25th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
WOW XD thats great! perfect!!!
*sends a copy*
February 25th, 2005 at 5:19 pm
write similar letters to congress and senates in your own countries.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
It’s a great thought but is there any real legal basis for it?? if not it won’t have much affect, their lawyers would just get a good laugh.
Rick
February 25th, 2005 at 8:11 pm
Why not go after U.S. District Attys to have them enforce “the tortuous activity of extortion by use of frivious lawsuits in contradiction of Fair Use Provision of Title 17, U.S.C. Section 107″
I’d suppose that the winner would be the one that would be able withstand the dure$$ of proce$$ best.
The best defense would be if file sharers publicize all of the exploitation that the music industry has done over the past century. How hard is it to come up with sour grapes stories?
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I looked through the site for a few minutes, using a few clicks, trying to find a place to log in and post with my ID. If you can’t create a web interface that makes it simple for me to login when I reply, where do you get the stones to call me an “anonymous coward”?
February 25th, 2005 at 9:13 pm
I looked through the site for a few minutes, using a few clicks, trying to find a place to log in and post with my ID. If you can’t create a web interface that makes it simple for me to login when I reply, where do you get the stones to call me an “anonymous coward”?
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duh, there IS a register button and a log-in button…duh…on the page.
duh…turn off your adblocker and you’ll…duh…see it.
duh…do you think i registered and logged in by magic?
duh.
February 25th, 2005 at 10:44 pm
Yes… it would have an effect. Thousands or hundreds of thousands of people sending in these letters would cost them money.. not just a laugh.
Imagine if you were a business and had to separate your normal mail from all these bogus legal notices… it gives them a taste of the medicine they’ve been dishing out to ISP’s for some time and hits them in their pocket book for administration and sanitation fees.
February 25th, 2005 at 11:24 pm
I used that button and it wouldn’t let me log in either.
Rick
February 26th, 2005 at 1:08 am
giving them your name and address might not be the smartest thing to do either, especially given the fact that your communication, to them, infiers you are either a user of P2P or supporter, either one will get flagged in the DB along with all the lowkee logs, cross refernced etc etc…..should be fun, I wont be doing it.
February 26th, 2005 at 1:11 am
Registering on any internet site should be done with the utmost caution, its not necessary here, so why bother? I’d prefer to anon coward than marked chump, perhaps.
February 26th, 2005 at 3:41 am
it says to write anonymous letters. that means don’t sign your real name. you might even want to post it from a different postal zone.
and don’t put your return address on it.
as far as the loki logs, i think the only info they’ll have is whether or not a person grabbed a .torrent file, which doesn’t prove the person used it for downloading a file. and if yo’re worried they’ll cross reference you and your anonymous letter, well…you shouldn’t have used your real name and POP3 email address, if indeed you did. and registration was required in order to grab .torrents.
February 26th, 2005 at 3:42 am
CORRECTION: TYPO ABOVE:
registration WAS NOT REQUIRED at loki…
sorry.
February 26th, 2005 at 10:11 am
Sound like a great Idea, also we can write similar letters to congress and
senates in our own countries stating that all P2P shall be free instead of
Paying 99 cents per download.. “4 yrs ago http://www.mp3.com used to be
free, but not anymore.. They charge 99 cents per download..” All because of the RIAA..
Also, I think the RIAA are using Gigabyte caps to Limit the internet and
to monitor our downloads through cable modem usage..
Heres an example:
http://www.gci.net/cmusage/cmmsf.cfm
Not sure it thats accurate or not…
February 26th, 2005 at 8:16 pm
This is great if you want to give the RIAA a laugh. The judges will howl.
February 27th, 2005 at 3:59 am
You know what?
YOU ARE FUCKING STUPID.
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
It will not ever happen that way is because in the united states everybody in the us house of representatives and the us senate take kickbacks and bribes from the mpaa and riaa AND MAKE FUCKING STUPID LAWS LIKE THE MPAA so people in the entertainment industry can buttfuck all you naive thiefs in the ass for stealing from them.
I REALLY RESENT THE FACT AS A UNITED STATES CITIZEN FOR ALL INTENT AND PURPOSES I CAN’T LEGALLY MAKE A COPY OF A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE.
Read the article below i found at reuters and the same thing is posted at p2pnet.net.
it will cost you $150000 per download so bend over and pucker up your culo baby……………………
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood’s major movie studios filed a new round of lawsuits across the United States on Thursday against people who trade illegally copied films and TV shows on the Internet.
The civil suits against unnamed “John Doe” defendants seek up to $150,000 per downloaded digital file and come as the U.S. film industry prepares for its annual Oscar telecast in Hollywood where awards for top films and stars are given out.
The studios, represented by the Motion Picture Association of America, took the opportunity of the Oscars to again press the case that the illegal copying of films and their black-market distribution on the Internet is costing them millions of dollars a year in lost revenue.
The studios claim they lose $3.5 billion worldwide in annual revenues from sales of illegally copied movies on video and DVD formats in street bazaars and black markets.
The studios argue that the lost revenue means fewer artists will work to create movies or TV shows. Traditionally the films that are rewarded by Oscar voters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are those that take thematic and commercial risks.
“When rampant online theft occurs, these films become that much harder to finance…we cannot and will not let that happen,” MPAA Chief Executive Dan Glickman said in a telephone conference call with reporters.
MPAA officials said “several” of the Oscar nominated films had illegal copies on the Internet that could be downloaded, but they named only comedy “Sideways,” which is nominated for best picture.
“Sideways” is a low-budget movie but was considered a financially risky one for its backers at Fox Searchlight because of its offbeat subject matter. Fox Searchlight is a division of News Corp Ltd’s Twentieth Century Fox movie studio.
MPAA officials declined to say how many suits it had filed or whether the illegal copies were made by video camera taping in theaters or by copying videos or DVDs that are given away by the studios this time of year to win Oscar votes.
Earlier this month, the MPAA filed lawsuits against computer networks utilizing a software technology known as BitTorrent, but these new suits were against end users, or people who actually downloaded the films.
Reuters/VNU
© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.
February 27th, 2005 at 4:40 am
yup, no problem, I encourage you to go for it….
February 27th, 2005 at 11:32 am
I fart in their general direction
February 27th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
We don’t monitor Readers’ Writes. But we look at them from time to time and sometimes quote from them or post them as stories. We delete anything that’s obscene or denigrates gender or religion.
February 27th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
http://p2pnet.net/index.php?page=comment&story=4023&comment=10463
February 28th, 2005 at 12:55 am
I found a very disturbing video online… It’s about what the RIAA do
to anyone who downloads music..
Here’s the link;
http://www.randomfoo.net/cntv/f2f_500k.mov
I saw in the video that a person was shot & after it diseased the
dead person’s wallet was emptied out… It was very mean to do that…
February 28th, 2005 at 1:00 am
I copied off 200 copies and mailing them out next time.
I tried registering and it claims to have mailed me off my PW, but 2 hours have gone my and I have not recieved it.
February 28th, 2005 at 6:20 pm
Sign it as a guy from MPAA or RIAA, the opposite one you send it to… So they sue each other when they lookup the name.
March 1st, 2005 at 2:46 am
Must play Soldner. LOL!
April 17th, 2005 at 11:13 am
I wanted to register for this site for quite a while before i finally managed to find the login & register buttons. It’s near the bottom of the left hand column of ad’s just incase you still can’t find it with any adblockers you might have turned off.