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Both the RIAA and MPAA have already sued thousands of users in the US

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have once again waged war on file sharers by sending letters to 40 universities in 25 US states.  The RIAA and MPAA want universities to filter traffic which both organizations believe will help further fight piracy.  Many college students are now using programs to share music and movie files over the LAN only, which is usually much safer than allowing files to be shared openly over the Internet.  File sharing on a university LAN system is not new, but the problem is on the rise again, according to both associations.

Along with the universities being watched, the RIAA has also placed 12 US cities on a "priority watch list."  The current list includes the following cities: Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, San Diego and San Francisco.  According to the RIAA, the cities on the list have the most sophisticated and serious piracy problem in the US -- perhaps a shift from targeting individual users to bringing down organized pirating rings may be in the future.

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duh nope...not gonna work.....nope
By vingamm on 5/4/2006 4:57:40 PM , Rating: 2
When will they get it right? Piracy will continue to be a problem as long a they continue to use the sqme business model. I personally do not like paying 25 bucks for 15 songs only one of which I care to listen to more than once. The quality of movies and music nowadays is awful. I an cd my nephew has the other day and I swear the first track was the f-word 185 times put to a beat. AND THEY EXPECT ME TO PAY FOR THAT? I saw date movie ---garbage, I saw ATL------garbage and I saw The Sentinel-------HOT GARBAGE. I am all for them trying to protect their bottom line. But I shelled out $48 dollars and was barely entertained. You want to stop people from bootlegging? Make a product worth buying sell it at a decent price and stop putting rules on what I do with it after I paid my hard earned money for it!!!!




By geeg on 5/4/2006 4:58:10 PM , Rating: 2
everything is about the money.


RE: duh nope...not gonna work.....nope
By Gatt on 5/4/2006 6:13:38 PM , Rating: 2
You don't like it, that's your perogative.

But that doesn't give you a right to steal.

Your whole paragraph is an attempt to justify theft, "I don't like that" isn't a valid excuse to steal.

That's akin to saying that because I don't like Tuna Fish I have the right to stuff my pockets with cans of it every time I go to the grocery store.


RE: duh nope...not gonna work.....nope
By Brainonska511 on 5/4/2006 6:15:22 PM , Rating: 2
It's not necessarily stealing. More like "copyright infringement."


RE: duh nope...not gonna work.....nope
By mendocinosummit on 5/4/2006 7:43:38 PM , Rating: 2
America was born bootlegging.


By wifuzzy on 5/4/2006 8:49:10 PM , Rating: 2
I was gonna write this big storey about how the music and movie industries are the only things that can waste money more than governments. Now they need to protect thier way of life so they go to the polititions and bribe them (read lobby)into getting rather overkill laws in place to protect thier bank accounts (read kill someone get life in jail, download a gig or 2 of mp3s and you could work for the next 10-75 lifetimes to pay the fines).
Don't get me wrong, it is stealing, but the movie and music industries are the only ones i know of who can legally go after you (even though your grandchild did it), tell you how much money your gonna pay if you go to trial, so you better settle out of court for a couple grand.
Ya know...if the justice system worked this way...think of all the money we would save on laywers. You killed him...we got your last name from a witness who is blind but heard the shot and found a gun registered to you......if we go to court you risk being cut into little pieces or just give us $10,000 and we'll forget the whole thing...just sign here and promise not to do it again.
But I decided against wasting my time ...so to hell with it.


By vingamm on 5/5/2006 8:24:50 AM , Rating: 2
No I do not condone piracy. But see it is people and thougts like yours that make piracy possible. You are not really looking at the true problem. More and more studies have shown that the majority of people who pirate copyrighted material go out and buy it after they have tried it. The garbage they do not like they simple just get rid of. The RIAA/MPAA's business model is all screwed up. You go to Wal-Mart and buy a TV set, it is there for you to touch and tune or what ever. You get to test drive a car. But the Entertainment Industry wants you to "buy" something, before you know what it is, and then tell you " Oh no you did not buy that, you leased it. And you have a very limited lease. You can not sell it if you do not like it, You can not make a copy of it. If you damage it or lose it you will simply have to buy it again for the same price mind you. We do not offer you any kind of insurance so you are just screwed. I will say again I do not believe in piracy, but the consumer is who gets the short end of the stick on this deal.


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By Brainonska511 on 5/4/2006 4:46:12 PM , Rating: 5
lol
By ksherman on 5/4/2006 5:11:44 PM , Rating: 4
notice how the cities on the "watch" list are all the largest cities in the country... well, DUH there will be more piracy!! these kooks crack me up...




Take down apple.
By Orpheus333 on 5/4/2006 8:48:22 PM , Rating: 1
itunes allows you to upload music from anyone on your network. AKA all the people that don’t have firewalls on their computers can search everyone else itunes and get any song on some one else’s network. At least... I think it works that way, I've never used itunes, but I did see a fellow class mate do the aforementioned

I would love to see the RIAA go after apple and see what happens. They never will though, it would be to level of a playing field, unlike suing 8 year olds and grandmas...*Zing*





RE: Take down apple.
By Randum on 5/4/2006 8:59:21 PM , Rating: 2
yeah lets go after college kids....stupid...


Common Sense
By Sunday Ironfoot on 5/4/2006 6:15:28 PM , Rating: 2
"...perhaps a shift from targeting individual users to bringing down organized pirating rings may be in the future"

At last some common sense from the RIAA.




Come again?
By segagenesis on 5/4/2006 6:16:27 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
The RIAA and MPAA want universities to filter traffic which both organizations believe will help further fight piracy.


I work for a university, and I see this being effective for all of about 5 seconds. I guess someone forgot to mention that "wireless lans" are readily available these days. Unless they construct dorm rooms in faraday cages, they just move to the next medium. Either that or they will start using encrypted clients, as if we should pretend triple DES or AES dont exist either. We have more important things to worry about with the university LAN.

If they are spying on people copying music, I would hate to know what else they might see coming down that line... say... isn't this illegal as copying music in the first place?




By SunAngel on 5/4/2006 6:28:36 PM , Rating: 2
First off, since infringement without monetary gain is a crime the MPAA and RIAA are well within their rights to bring legal action to any entity exercising infringement. Now that I got that out of the way, students that use a private network are the few cultures (in addition to home networks) that inevitably should be exempt from these lawsuits. For one, files being transfer behind the firewall SHOULD BE out of reach of both organizations. Second, this would be similiar to lets say streaming over a local network. The only difference is the file does not have to be streamed a second time. One network, one copy. Yet, I definitely sympathize with both MPAA and RIAA. It only takes one person to destroy the model. Even if unversities included something like unlimited music or movies on student accounts there will always be a student that will go outside the university experience and try to become an independent businessperson to supplement that mom and pops allowance so they can go buy the brand spanking 2007 Chevrolet Corvette SS Convertible.




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