Comments on: RIAA fined $8 million

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:13:13 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:46:55 +0000

Must play Soldner. LOL!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:20:26 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:00:38 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 05:55:34 +0000

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…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:47:50 +0000

http://p2pnet.net/index.php?page=comment&story=4023&comment=10463

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:46:30 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:32:15 +0000

I fart in their general direction

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:40:56 +0000

yup, no problem, I encourage you to go for it….

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:59:30 +0000

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

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:16:15 +0000

This is great if you want to give the RIAA a laugh. The judges will howl.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:11:02 +0000

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…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:42:48 +0000

CORRECTION: TYPO ABOVE:

registration WAS NOT REQUIRED at loki…

sorry.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:41:34 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 06:11:09 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 06:08:53 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:24:35 +0000

I used that button and it wouldn’t let me log in either.

Rick

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:44:22 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:13:40 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:11:56 +0000

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”?