This is disgusting:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/a...30718_1322.html

Apparently the RIAA now has 871 subpoenas for people sharing songs. Some have as few as 5 songs shared. That is insane.

The RIAA has to be the worst thugs to come around in a long time... even far worse than Microsoft. I don't share songs, but have sympathy for anyone who does and is caught up in this crap. Personally I don't know how the RIAA employees sleep at night, knowing the lives they truely enjoy ruining.

I guess we can also thank our congress for giving the RIAA the power to get supoenas without even a judges written consent. The good ol USA. Not.

They are just trying to scare everyone off from using file sharing programs. I think someone should sue them for invasion of privacy or for hacking the file sharing networks. Get Johnny Cockren in there and start lobbying against these monsters. Those two congress men are probably recieving some campagne money for helping the RIAA.

campagne money? more like loads of fricken crack.....

I can imagine all the deaththreats...

Reminds me of the U.S. "Prohibition" era where we had a law (the 18th Amendment to the Constitution which prohibited the sale or use of alcohol) that was both unpopular and unenforceable. Legislators will change their tune as the public becomes more vocal and they lose elections over such petty matters.

We no longer have rights, You can get sue for anything.

true and I want that to change I want "internet" to be treated like a new country, where the laws of earth don't apply where there is a common respect for people and corporations have no place, and it things likr RIAA, Microsft trying to abuse the internet with thier Windows Product Activiation technology. and those horrible popup windows/spam we need to rethink the internet and remove that which is evil!

nothing we can do bout it ...they got lawyers and tons of them... we dont

EFF is fighting for our online rights, but I don't know any other groups like this, from what I know they have an army of lawyers and htey are doing thier best to get back/keep our online freedoms. The best thing we can do is join them or donate to them to keep them running, the idea of that book 1984 coming true scares me but I'm sure you can see that that's where we are headed when cororations and governments want to abolish our privacy and rights.

I did a search for RIAA and here is the list of stuff I found

RIAA has shut down a lot of online radio's sites and now they are going after p2p users. What's next? soon we will not be able to play no music without having the RIAA telling us what we can play and can't.

yeah, but it not that simple, first you have to go on thier own Inter that costs about 10 bucks a minute then you download 2 things 1. a contract that they some how got to be as big as 50 MB and an application, after you download both (their internet at it's fastest can go at 56k lol) then you read the entire contract because the for you have to fill out will quiz you on it. the for also has you give them you credit card number (incase they even think you stole music) every single way to contact you (so they can sell the list to spammers) and the song(s) you want to listen to, but since they don't support e-mail you'll have you mail it thru snail mail and wait 6 - 8 week depending on the amount of mail they get after all that you may listen to your song(s) 1 time if you want to listen to it again you must repeat this whole process hehe now you know why they want you to stop sharing music... j/k

neverrr!!! a pirates life for me arg lmao

Here the real reason

carefull, they may sue you for that picture hehe

lol thats a great picture and really probably something like that.

I hear that lawyers doubt that the RIAA can sucessfully sue a person in Canada for that file sharing stuff, not sure why, I guess it's the fact we pay I thikn it's 30 cents more for CD-R/CD-RW's and that money goes to the RIAA incase we might download some great MP3, so I have to say to Americans Welcome the the land of the free, and join Canada, Canada the country where we have more rights then Americans!

I just found another recent news article that mentions the future file sharing programs that I heard about in the past. Supposedly they promise anonymouse file sharing that ISP's can't even crack. Here was the story on time.com (it mentions it in the 2nd to last paragraph).

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...-471178,00.html

Nice article. Man, not even your ISP can track your activity, that sounds promising.

lol now that would be nice, tho the problem with that is the governments wouldn't allow it, they'd make it illegal for you to download/use, because you could be using that technology to commit crimes (Software piracy)

no, but it isnt illegal to use it, cause buisness, you claim for buisness and they cant do s***, also you are innocent untill they can catch you. so it might work.

Check out this site more crap the RIAA is doing

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/technolo...;partner=GOOGLE

This is disturbing. They are suing a 14 year old kid and his sister might not even get an education

YAY capitalism! The RIAA should never have been allowed to get this big, with the greed of human nature, all you need are people running something that big or bigger to crush lives.

dude the 14yr kid sounds like what my dad thinks is gonna happen to me...I've stopped using plain kazaa long time, no operate with kazaa lite k++ which blocks some ip's and also run p2pgardeuan. And am also behind routor and running Norton along with Zone alarm on the firewall/routor and on my local machine. So yeah I feel pretty safe when it comes to the RIAA

Stand up for your rights as a consumer and boycott the RIAA. Don't by any more CDs for the rest of the year. Let see what happen if no one buys CD's

Sorry about double posting but I forgot something.

Hey RIAA this is what the USA think of you

Stick that in ur pipe and smoke it RIAA lol

lol

ya thats right..laugh with me.. L is for LOSERS ...RIAA ur a bucha loserrrs

Man, I so wish that one of the RIAA lawyers or an employee is actually caught sharing files on kazaa.

lol that would be funny :-)

Found this update information on the RIAA

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jul/07302003/we...nesda/79592.asp

oh my I can't beleive that that hasn't or won't happen come on 85% of people with internet have some sort of p2p program...or have used p2p before...

Tell me about it. Im pretty sure one of those RIAA goons must have downloaded a song or two just to hear it before they "buy" the record.

i like the fact that its gonna take them 2000+ years to sue every person who has kazaa or any p2p program

The RIAA can &^%$ on my *$%# those dirty &%$#$% little &&%^*& &%$#@ and %$#@ as well as $#%$& this. And don't forget about the &*#$@# to %#$%^ $%^^& trying to &^$#^* that %$#@#% ^%$## &^#$ #$%^ (!&@^# %(*(*()@ %^&*&.

Thats all I have to say about the RIAA

dude Kelp, I understood every word you said!

HELLYEA!!!!!!

Pacific Bell Sues RIAA Over Subpoenas

--and they're suing because the RIAA invaded their customer's privacy. I love the ISPs and their fight against the RIAA. They know they will stand to lose many customers if there is no swapping.

Hooray!

that is so true, like if lets say if my isp (charter) closed ALL file sharing and p2p I would definetly switch to another ISP.

btw: pac bell=sbc