Fuck you, RIAA and MPAA, for all your legal crap against ordinary people...
...more details here . A quote here:
The RIAA -- seemingly deliberately -- provoked a massive confrontation, in which the MPAA, the American Association of Publishers, and the United States Attorney General, are lining up against not only Ms. Barker and all the other RIAA victims out there, but against the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the trade associations which represent most of the giants of the internet and computer industries.
Ms. Barker made a simple motion to dismiss the complaint, saying it did not give her adequate notice of the infringement she's accused of.
In response, the RIAA made its most shocking and outlandish arguments to date, claiming that merely having a 'shared files folder' on one's computer, and thereby 'making files available for distribution', is in and of itself a "distribution" and a copyright infringement. I.e., even if the recordings were legally obtained, and even if no illegal copies were ever made of them, the defendant is still guilty of copyright infringement.
Learning of this, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Computer & Communications Industry Association, and the U. S. Internet Industry Association -- realizing that if this absurd argument were accepted the entire internet might be shut down in the United States, since the internet is nothing more than a giant network of hyperlinks making files 'available', and also realizing that Ms. Barker doesn't have the financial resources to wage a full scale war protecting the entire internet from destruction -- were quick to file amicus curiae briefs pointing out to Judge Karas the absurdity of the RIAA's arguments.
Here's a note to you, RIAA: I quit buying your fuckin' music. I might listen to it on the radio but that is it. You are a bunch of assholes, money grubbin' at that.
You assholes will never get another dollar from me. Count on it. I will not buy CDs or DVDs or tapes. I don't need your crap.
To the readers of this post: Profanity is the super punctuation of the new age. A mere exclamation point does not equal one 'fuck you' in getting my point across. Pretty language does not cut it. Sorry.
...more details here . A quote here:
The RIAA -- seemingly deliberately -- provoked a massive confrontation, in which the MPAA, the American Association of Publishers, and the United States Attorney General, are lining up against not only Ms. Barker and all the other RIAA victims out there, but against the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the trade associations which represent most of the giants of the internet and computer industries.
Ms. Barker made a simple motion to dismiss the complaint, saying it did not give her adequate notice of the infringement she's accused of.
In response, the RIAA made its most shocking and outlandish arguments to date, claiming that merely having a 'shared files folder' on one's computer, and thereby 'making files available for distribution', is in and of itself a "distribution" and a copyright infringement. I.e., even if the recordings were legally obtained, and even if no illegal copies were ever made of them, the defendant is still guilty of copyright infringement.
Learning of this, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Computer & Communications Industry Association, and the U. S. Internet Industry Association -- realizing that if this absurd argument were accepted the entire internet might be shut down in the United States, since the internet is nothing more than a giant network of hyperlinks making files 'available', and also realizing that Ms. Barker doesn't have the financial resources to wage a full scale war protecting the entire internet from destruction -- were quick to file amicus curiae briefs pointing out to Judge Karas the absurdity of the RIAA's arguments.
Here's a note to you, RIAA: I quit buying your fuckin' music. I might listen to it on the radio but that is it. You are a bunch of assholes, money grubbin' at that.
You assholes will never get another dollar from me. Count on it. I will not buy CDs or DVDs or tapes. I don't need your crap.
To the readers of this post: Profanity is the super punctuation of the new age. A mere exclamation point does not equal one 'fuck you' in getting my point across. Pretty language does not cut it. Sorry.
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