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mstlyevil
October 4th, 2005, 04:14 AM
http://news.com.com/2061-10799_3-5887915.html

Interesting story I just read on CNET. I hope this time the RIAA does not bankrupt the accuser.
WildTangent
October 4th, 2005, 03:40 PM
hopefully one of these days there will be a class-action lawsuit against these pricks, only then can we be rid of them

-Wild
drgreborn
October 4th, 2005, 03:44 PM
Interesting read. What is this "Gang Laws"? Is it some kind of law against organised crimes in the USA?
newbie2
October 4th, 2005, 05:13 PM
Interesting read. What is this "Gang Laws"? Is it some kind of law against organised crimes in the USA?
talking about 'gangs' and 'law' :rolleyes: -->
"Harriet Miers and John Roberts have something in common besides being President Bush's picks for the U.S. Supreme Court: As lawyers, both took part in cases related to Microsoft.
Miers, nominated Monday to the high court, represented the company in cases including class-action lawsuits in the 1990s that alleged defects in a version of the company's MS-DOS operating system. Miers headed up the team of lawyers defending the company in those cases.
Microsoft prevailed in each of the cases, with some failing to gain class certification and others dismissed voluntarily."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/243289_msftjustices04.html
mstlyevil
October 4th, 2005, 06:13 PM
Interesting read. What is this "Gang Laws"? Is it some kind of law against organised crimes in the USA?

RICO laws, the same ones used against organised crime bosses.
xequence
October 4th, 2005, 08:19 PM
They deserve that and much more.
Quest-Master
October 4th, 2005, 10:30 PM
1. Install a computer at a controlled location with a really, really fat pipe. This would have to be done in a way so the setup could be verifiable in the future for affidavit purposes (more on this later).

2. Fill the computer with about 25,000 files that are simply .txt files relabeled as .mp3 files only each .txt file contains the line "This is not copyrighted material" repeated a large, but variable number of times (to vary the file sizes).

3. Rename the various MP3 files to match really popular songs/artists/albums.

4. Install the RIAA's favorite P2P app to monitor (Kazaa?).

5. Wait for the inevitable RIAA "John Doe" lawsuit . I'll bet they don't check the files.

6. Spring the trap. Countersue demonstrating the horrible inefficacy of the RIAA's "copyright infringement" detection methodologies.

Haha.