p2pnet - rss feed: New RIAA lawsuit category
p2p news / p2pnet: Organized Music’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) says it’ll sue, “anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums,” according to a report.
“We are merely exercising our right to defend our intellectual properties from unauthorized peer-to-peer notification of the existence of copyrighted material,” a press release signed by RIAA anti-piracy director Brad Buckles reads, says the story.
“We will aggressively prosecute those individuals who attempt to pirate our property by generating ‘buzz’ about any proprietary music, movies, or software, or enjoy same in the company of anyone other than themselves,” he’s quoted as saying.
And, “RIAA attorneys said they were also looking into the legality of word-of-mouth ‘favorites-sharing’ sites, such as coffee shops, universities, and living rooms.”
The story is published in The Onion, so it must be true.
(Thanks, Bill ; )
Also read:-
The Onion - RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs, November 30, 2005
November 30th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
As much as I understand how fun it is to make fun of the RIAA, I see more and more fake news posted here alongside the real news. Some the real news these days are so scary that they seem fake, but they’re real! And right next to them are fake news. To me, it minimizes how scary and real the true news are, and lessens the impact that the true bad news should have. Because that’s what p2pnet is about, to inform us about things happening in our back so we feel the need to react and fight those who wants to take away our liberties.
Basically I wish those fake news we’re clearly identified as fake or else one day we’ll be a bunch to question the integrity of the news here.
I just hope not to come here, look at the news titles, and think “well.. most of those news are not true” and look at p2pnet the same way I look at the Onion, to laugh about unimaginable stuff that you know is fake… you all know the Onion is all fake eh??.. if you’re unsure, look at those hilarious titles that are there today :
- NASA Chief Under Fire For Personal Shuttle Use (with picture of NASA guy playing golf in front of a shuttle)
- CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
LANGLEY, VA—The most crucial passages of U.S. intelligence have been emphasized with indelible black highlighters.
I look at the Onion to laugh, I look at p2pnet to get pissed at the corporate world!!!
November 30th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
Please put a sppof notice in either the title or subtext of the article so that one can quickly discern the content thanks
November 30th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
As I say in the mission statement, p2pnet carries not only news but also “features and commentaries”.
Seeing how quickly people can believe this kind of obvious and arrant nonsense makes you realised just how desperately bad things have become —– I hope.
Once we lose lose the perspectives offered by a sense of humour, we’re lost altogether.
Cheers!
November 30th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
Jon,
I’m a long term reader and poster at p2pnet. On the whole I agree with your choices as those choices are right down the alley of what I wished to be informed of; provided I don’t already know of it. If I do know of it then I wait for it to show the next day for a comment rather than write that comment where I originally read it at. (Call that loyality to this site or whatever, it’s what I do.)
I agree that many times these spoofs gain acknowledgement in the strangest places, such as the Suncom responce.
Prehaps where we might part in idealogy in this is when the opponets begin to use these spoofs as proofs of this being a crackpot site and use that for a the example. After all, retaining the sites’ and your intregity should certainly be a goal, high on the list.
If you are quoted as being news at other sites, such as the one over the Sony camera you gave out, it tends to add to the confusion. (Yes, I was the one that fell for that one and catflap had to make mention of it being one of your originals.) Am I upset over that? A little but for myself being so gulliable, not for your skills as a writer.
However this sets up a pitfall down the line when you hit a particularly sensitive subject with a respondant that will be willing to fight on your terms in method. I would hate to see that for such a great site. I, myself; would rather see somewhere that it was labelled spoof so that others as naive as I have proven to be would at least get the hint early.
November 30th, 2005 at 10:30 pm
Today’s spoof is tomorrow’s RIAA reality
November 30th, 2005 at 10:31 pm
I like the fact that p2pnet has been making me actually THINK about what I’m reading.
“WTF? That CAN’T be true, can it?
Oh, it’s from The Onion…but it could almost have been real…”
November 30th, 2005 at 10:50 pm
I understand what you’re saying, and where you’re coming from. But labelling this kind of a post a ’spoof’ would take the bite right out of it.
So although I really value you, and everyone else who takes the trouble not only to visit p2pnet, but also to write comments, I’m sticking to my guns on this.
BUT - I promise I won’t post lampoons any more frequently than I do already, which isn’t very often, you must admit.
Bottom line, although p2pnet started before there were blogs, it’s still a blog, if you get me, and it’s a reflection of how I see things, rightly or wrongly : )
Cheers! And all the best …
December 1st, 2005 at 2:23 am
Agreed….I can actually believe that the **AA would say something like this. Yes the fact that it came from the Onion tells you its not real but it is not too far off. Remember according to the CEO of disney you are not permitted to change channels during commercials or use the restroom, because you are stealing from them by not watching the commercials.
December 1st, 2005 at 4:32 am
It was quite obvious once I read it was from the ONION!!! that it was a spoof.
That in and of itself is a spoof tag. Kinda like Fark.com tags for hero and dumbass
December 1st, 2005 at 5:36 am
Now that’s the Truth!!!!!
December 1st, 2005 at 9:28 am
This is a site read by more people than only you natives.
So, please, remember: it’s not only a question of “sense of humour”. It’s about knowledge of your native thinking, that others don’t share, and have to learn.
Your site is respected throughout the world. Keep deserving it.
Rugendas
December 1st, 2005 at 11:55 am
How about a new copyright infringement category: Set as Wallpaper.
It was invented by an unknown programmer that addded a right mouse or menu option option when using a www browser :”Set as wallpaper” or “Add as wallpaper”. The idea being that when the cursor hovers over an image, you can set the image as your wallpaper. Of course, the image’s copyright status is unknown but it is likely that the image has a copyright that does not belong to you. Very few images on the web are in the public domain, so you are now almost surely an infringer, because the image is stored somewhere in the vowels of you hard disk.
Microsoft adopted the “Set as wallpaper” option on Internet Explorer, thereby becoming the greatest inducer to copyright infringement ever, when Internet Explorer became the predominant browser. The Kazaa inducemnt theory developed by the Supreme Court would certainly have been different if the Judges knew about Microsoft’s inducement. The money politics would have been different.
Mind you, when you use the “Set as wallpaper” option you are not warned that the image you will be using may have a copyright owners and that if the owner finds out you installed the image, he can sue you for $150,000.
There is no FBI warning on Internet images and no image in the Internet comes out clean and says “Iam in the public domain”. Well, actually It can’t, because only an owner could certify that an image is in the public domain and if there is an owner, there is no public doamin. A copyright paradox.
The paradox aside, this type of infringement is worse than if you shared a song, because frequently the infringed image is seen in corporate offices whenever a computer is turned on, and that is a second type of infringement, a violation of the exclusive public performance right that authors allegedly have.
Also this makes Microsoft the biggest, by far, inducer of copyright infringement.
I only regret that I did not invent and patent the “Set as wallpaper” option. I could then ask $1.00 to Microsof for each Internet Explorer installed, for using my patent. I would then be an instant billionaire, thanks to the incredible law that allows software patents.
This is no spoof.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
December 1st, 2005 at 12:05 pm
BTW, this makes Internet Explorer the most widely used by far p2p software.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
December 1st, 2005 at 12:36 pm
Hmm..I wonder if using the Sony spyware someone can gain access to other computers and search the hard disk for image files so as to make a settlement offer to the computer owner.
A suggestion to anyone cosidering the racket is to folow these steps:
1. Fill out a copyright registration for a few thousand images that you give common names such as background.jpg, image.jpg, bush.jpg, christ.jpg. That way you are almst certain to come up with thousands of potential infringers. A multiple image copyright registration costs only $30. A great investment.
3. Contract a lawyer. There will be some dirty work that you do not want do do. The next steps are done by you lawyer.
4. Prepare a settlement form to send to the John Does that own the computers.
5. Get a court order to force the ISP of John Doe to give you the name and address and telephone of John Doe.
6. Make a settlement offer to John Doe: Pay $5,000 now or be sued for $150,000 for each image. The offer is going to be accepted for sure.
You and your lawyer will become millionaires.
I too, because Iam going to patent this business method idea and will then want a cut of the money from you.
This is spoof, but Most ideas pirated from RIAA.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
December 1st, 2005 at 2:18 pm
As English is a second language to me it is hard for me to determine whether it’s spoof or not. I came across this site a moth ago and I thought that this site is something that I can relate to. Now I see that I was spreading the false information. I am sorry to say it but I am going to put a note on my site that your site is not providing accurate information and should be avoided.
December 2nd, 2005 at 2:08 pm
aimini P2P software v1.7 released.
http://www.aimini.com/
June 14th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Dear Mr. Venegas,
I am in the process of designing a T shirt for our small non-profit organization. I found an image on Internet Explorer Wallpaper and would like to use part of the image in my design. About 100 shirts would be produced. If I use the image, will I be infringing on a copyright? If so, is there a way to contact the author of the image and purchase the rights to the image?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Rick Sowerby
ricksowerby@vianet.ca