RIAA Sues Usenet, Decries it as 'Brazen Outlaw' - RIAA is more HATED by the public than Halliburton

[populistdriven]

The Recording Industry is without question the most HATED industry in America. Clinton & Conyers Take NOTE:

The Recording Industry Association of America's litigation strategy is taking a detour into the internet's Precambrian layer, suing a company that distributes the ancient decentralized message board known as Usenet.

Fargo, North Dakota-based Usenet.com is the target of the lawsuit (.pdf) filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in which 14 recording companies allege the service "enables and encourages its customers to reproduce and distribute millions of infringing copies of Plaintiff's valuable copyrighted sound recordings."

The suit, filed Friday, is something of a throwback in the RIAA's recent litigation strategy. It targets an alleged facilitator of copyright theft instead of an individual pirate.

"They started by going after Napster, Aimster, Grokster, and after that they said, 'We're gonna go after individuals to see if we (can) get into the psyche of people that peer-to-peer file sharing is wrong,'" says Washington, D.C.-based copyright attorney Ross Dannenberg. "Now it has come full circle. Throughout this cycle, (Usenet) newsgroups have been ignored."

In the past four years, the RIAA has sued more than 20,000 people on allegations of copyright infringement. Two weeks ago, the association won a $222,000 judgment in the first such case to go to trial.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/10/riaa_usenet

[Dukkha]

1. who the hell uses Usenet anymore?

That is so 1998. Does the RIAA really have nothing better to do or are they that desperate now?

[ManiacJoe]

3. Usenet gets used for large amounts

of copyright infringement.

However, Usenet.com has no control over the content of data posted by the users, they don't even run the servers.

[robinlynne]

2. The recording industry/the most hated? really? try the oil industry, or pharma, or insurance

on for size. I don't know of anyone who hates the recording industry. or even thinks about the recording industry.

[madrchsod]

4. the public does`t realize

what the riaa is doing and what the costs are to our society. no it`s not on the top of the public`s list but it`s just as destructive

[MedleyMisty]

6. How old are the people you hang out with?

Most people I know hate the RIAA, and they tend to be late teens to mid twenties.

Actually, most of the people in the internet communities I particpate in other than this one are pretty upset with the whole copyright thing. They've taken it too far. The actions of the RIAA make me want to download illegal stuff, although I don't and instead try to support artists who freely share their stuff on the net.

They're really doing everything they can to alienate people who might be into buying CDs, as well as just putting out crappy music. That has a lot more to do with drops in CD sales than net piracy.

[populistdriven]

8. riaa is so hated the average person volunteers 8 bucks for the new riaa-free radiohead album

RADIOHEAD:
Quote:
Mon, 01 October

Hello everyone.

Well, the new album is finished, and it's coming out in 10 days;

We've called it In Rainbows.

Love from us all.
Jonny

official site http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/
new release downloads http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/Quickindex2.html (name ur price)

[americanstranger]

9. I paid 12 bucks...

...because that was a dead-brilliant move. The album's pretty good, too.

- as

[robinlynne]

11. I figured it might be a younger crowd thing.

[populistdriven]

18. we should take an informal survey on the street nt

[msongs]

5. get even with the RIAA, create your OWN music !!!!! nt

[conscious evolution]

7. Best reply yet

It is so much more fun to jam with friends.Even the train wrecks can be a hoot.

Fuck the riaa.

[Swamp Rat]

12. Come jam wit us on da Mardi Gras.

Phuck the riaa!

I make my OWN music! and listen to it for FREE on public, member supported radio. www.wwoz.org

[conscious evolution]

13. Those guys look familar

A couple of them look like some guys I marched behind at the US Social Justice Forum in Atlanta back in June.Especially the trombone player with the beard and the big guy playing the coronet.
They was jammin.

[Greyhound]

10. I think the forgotten (by me) marketing guru put it best, when during the early days of the corrupt

Napster law suits. He said, (paraphrasing) "These idiots had over 70,000 people in the same place at the same time with the same interest, and instead of capitalizing on it, they fucked it up by trying to destroy it and fragmenting it. They will never have another opportunity like this again."

[Snarkturian Clone]

14. my friend had a good idea.

He thinks that the best way to get back at the RIAA undetected is to just copy all your CD's and give them away to all your friends... then have all your friends do the same. Basically a disc sharing program instead of a file sharing program.

[cynatnite]

15. Here's something from a news anchor...

I think it was MSNBC and can't recall who the anchor was, but he was interviewing this college girl who admitted to downloading. She explained why she did it. The anchor told her that she should buy the CD she wants and then make copies of it for all her friends. I was cracking up over it.

[pintobean]

16. How long before they go after our public libraries? eom

[Solon]

17. The RIAA is part of a dying distribution model, and they know it...

it'll take a while for them to die, and they are doing their damndest to prevent it. In the meantime, it sounds like they are overreaching, badly, in this particular case. Seriously, if this lawsuit is successful, then they can go after the W3C and that would have a chilling effect on the entire Internet.

[populistdriven]

19. Excellent point! But don't you think they will infiltrate and corporatize it from within? nt