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Lawyer: RIAA wants to shut down the Internet

news article released on: 29 November, 2006

A lawyer defending Net users that have been sued by the music industry's lobby group, RIAA, claims that the evidence -- or actually the lack of it -- in one of the cases RIAA is pushing in courts, if accepted, would effectively shut down the whole Internet. The lawyer, Ray Beckerman, tells in an interview on DefectiveByDesign about a real case, Electro vs. Barker, in which, the recording ...

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#1 29 Nov 2006 @ 22:29
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Is it a bad thing that this in no way surprises me? I'm getting so tired of hearing about the RIAA and there blasted crusade against piracey.
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#2 29 Nov 2006 @ 22:58
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Yet another waste of American time and money. I'm ashamed to live in the same country as these assholes. They actually think they will 'shut down' the internet? That isn't even possible!

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U.S. Government has filed a brief supporting RIAA's side in the case.
Note to The RIAA and the US Government: KMA bitches! I, among with billions of others will destroy you and your organization if you attempt even the smallest amount of this!
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Don't be fooled any longer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUtbGYgsIu4&feature=related
#3 30 Nov 2006 @ 0:05
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I find this statement very funny:
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RIAA has made a statement that merely making files available on the internet is in and of itself a copyright infringement.
Why you say i find this funny. Well they say making files available on the internet is against copyright laws. What happens if its freeware is that against the law :P I don't think so :)
#4 30 Nov 2006 @ 0:06
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umm shutdown the internet? doubt it. but the ability of them to sue without any specific evidence is ridiculous.
#5 30 Nov 2006 @ 1:28
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Someone should sue the RIAA for something. We could start with being stupid.
When there is no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the earth. - Peter - Ken Foree - Dawn of the Dead (1979)

#6 30 Nov 2006 @ 1:54
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OH K"MON!!!!!! NEVER, just give it up, they will never shut the internet down. Piracy is only a general 25% use out of 150.
#7 30 Nov 2006 @ 3:28
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lol
#8 30 Nov 2006 @ 3:42
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They wouldn't do that because look how many business depend on internet sales now just that fact alone will stop this from happening right.

Maybe they should shut down the places that help distribute illegal music and movies.

There is always that loophole where if you own the original then you can legally make a backup copy.
#9 30 Nov 2006 @ 4:48
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This is the most retarded thing for the RIAA to do. I don't think they will do it, because a whole lot of companies are already connected to the internet as it is. Shutting down the internet will shut down pretty much half the world's businesses. CMON!
#10 30 Nov 2006 @ 5:31
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There is always that loophole where if you own the original then you can legally make a backup copy.
while that is true in the US, wolf, it is also true that it is illegal to circumvent copy protection for any reason. leaves the consumer in between a bit of a rock and a hard place, eh?
#11 30 Nov 2006 @ 6:53
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you are actualy wrong, the law regaurding seciurity decryption does not cover making archival backups of yourown dvds, asper the new dmca exemptions anounced by the library of congress last week. i know on afterdawn they said it doesnt provide that right, but they are wrong it does.
#12 30 Nov 2006 @ 6:57
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i hadn't heard any new information from the Library of Congress as of last week...i'd like to see a link to this, please.
#13 30 Nov 2006 @ 7:20
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Sick. Even worse than Micros### saying that every Linux user has some hidden obligations or whatever it was. Some excrement about stealing code from them.
It's not bad enough that I live in Poland, a country with a total retard as a president and jerks underneath him; it seems the whole world is insane.
Politicians are making asses of themselves. MS and RIAA are going beyond that. And yet they still hold power and spend our money.
#14 30 Nov 2006 @ 7:38
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they are bas as the ACLU
#15 30 Nov 2006 @ 8:06
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MPAA, obviously, has put in a brief supporting the RIAA's case. More interestingly, also the U.S. Government has filed a brief supporting RIAA's side in the case.
Interesting.... Could it be that there is some sinister plot to rid the world of the Internet in order to stifle freedom of expression and opinion?

Conspiracy theorists at the ready please!!!!
#16 30 Nov 2006 @ 8:20
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Just encrypt ur harddrive with truecypt and have a 30 char password, then when the MPAA or RIAA comes to ur house, sure give em the harddrive, but they can't find a single thing on it,let alone open it in less than a couple decades, no evidence, no proof, in america ur let free, edited by ddp the RIAA
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#17 30 Nov 2006 @ 8:21
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America lives off the internet, the world lives on the internet what are they going to want to shutdown next.

they are edited by ddp

thats all i'm saying
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#18 30 Nov 2006 @ 8:27
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they can take my life,


but they can never take my internet!

in the end, you have to wonder: why could they want to stifle freedom of expression, of opinion, of thought in general? what good is it?

i don't have an answer, but i know that rulers have been doing it as long as there was government, and i know the bigger the government and the deeper it's pockets, the more stifling it can do.

the RIAA and MPAA need to be brought down, somehow, before they can do irrepairable damage.

*edit*
guys, we have language rules on this site. no matter how irrate given articles may make you, you need to watch what you type.
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#19 30 Nov 2006 @ 9:06
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Its rather simple they can make more money and have more power if the "people" are not allowed to think or express themselfs,and are forced to do only what they say you can do.

thats the kind of bland cookie cutter world the corperations want,and they are undermining governments across the world to make their dream of corporate states and "regions" come true....

this is why the governments across the world should smack the media mafia back into their palce,I dont mind a 1% tax on all "offending" items (net,new comps,sound/vid digi devices,blank media) and the governments will make sharing leagle and give some money to poor poor media mafia,this way they can never sue a person again unless they sell "copies"........
#20 30 Nov 2006 @ 9:53
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Just close the internet...
#21 30 Nov 2006 @ 9:56
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while we're at it, let's just shut down movie theaters and rental places...hell, let's shut down hollywood and music studios all over. let's do nothing except give our entire paychecks to the industry as a charity so they can live in mansions and drive limos that get thirty gallons to the mile and we can all starve.

to quote sean connery, "suck it." :-P

hmm...maybe we can bomb them?

i know you said that in jest, OneMember, by the way.
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#22 30 Nov 2006 @ 9:59
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Close the Internet?....Ha!
#23 30 Nov 2006 @ 9:59
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Are the RIAA serious?What kind of idiots would want to shut down the internet becuase of piracy,they'll be hipakrits because they use and will always the internet cause the internet is all in power and everybody uses it including the RIAA and if they somehow or immposibly shut down the internet=Oh there will be lots of problems.



Idiots.....
#24 30 Nov 2006 @ 10:01
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*rolls eyes*
I'll take strict goverment regulation to "govern" the corperations thank you....

the reason for the tax is 3 fold
1.to pay for itself
2.to keep a close eye on the media mafia
3.to give a pittance to the media mafia

and with that the trade off is all vid/music/programs/media will be free to trade and share on the net,selling copies are still a no no but it could make copying rentals leagle as well.
its called balance with a bent leaning to the consumer.
#25 30 Nov 2006 @ 10:12
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and it would be a wonderful thing, but those with money will never let it happen. it would take a war.

power corrupts; once those who rise to the top realize they are there, they won't give up anything and only want more.

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