ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh... i'm shaking.

geez. i guess i should un-share all of my mp3's.

600? I guess I'm not gonna be too concerned about the whole whopping 20 MP3's I have......

The defendent should go to court dressed as a pirate.

burp.

next.

Hmmm, last time I logged onto Grokster there were 4million+ other users logged on as well.
1/4,000,000.
The Powerball jackpot is up to what now?

What I'd like to see them prove is that this person actually downloaded what they say they did. Can they prove that the mp3 files in question were copyrighted music at all, and not something else?

Sounds more like a publicity stunt/scare tactic to me.

01-21-03 06:46:54 PM Apparent Nuisance
"The defendent should go to court dressed as a pirate."

Would the defendent be a Buc or a Raider?

The defendent should go to court dressed as a pirate.

Arrrgh biatch!

hah

Uh oh, my Kazaa Lite user rating is *almost* Supreme Being (993). I guess that means I've shared more than a few hundred files in my day, doesn't it?

Damn, that's a lot of words.

Recap anyone?

The RIAA can take my MP3's from my cold dead, hand!! COME AND GET IT, IM DRUNK AND FULL OF AMMO!!

Damn, Morchella! Word for word, and the last comment of the thread! I am beaten . . this time. (*evil laughter*)

direct connect is the way to go

This is the Patriot Act working for you America!

Asinine.

You can't fight city hall. You can't fight corporate America. They are big, and we are small. You can't fight city hall.

I don't know what happens when Corporate America fights other Corporate America or city hall, but someone has to win.

Peaceboy
The horror!

"Mr. Nightsweat, on the night of December 14th, did you not perform a search on Kazaa for 'Tiffany's Greatest Hits'?"

"I, uh, I... I was looking for porn - er uh, I meant to look for 'Tiffany is shiat'- uh, I er.. YES, DAMNIT! YES!! COME TO ME MY MALL PRINCESS!!"

I have about 10,000. But you can't prosecute me cuz they're all legal!!! Every last farking one of 'em!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

What? there is music on Kazaa? all i ever find is porn sweet porn....

He has 600 MP3's and they are making a big deal over that. shiat I have something close to 1.5 Gigs dedicated to my shared folder. I doubt they are going to come after me though as most of my stuff is just obscure crap that is hard to find like Tori Amos and Maynard James Keenan doing "Muhammad my Friend" live at 256kbits/s and other such stuff.

*shakes fist at Morchella*

If this gets implemented hardcore, the RIAA, MPAA, and all their lobbyist buddies will get slammed so hard, they won't know whether or not to sign Courtney Love again...

thats why i used the name of someone i didnt like when i signed up

*shakes fist at self*

Oooh, that's much better...

Morchella

he he he

RIAA's sites gonna get a hacking that makes japanese schoolgirls blush methinks.

Who cares. Let them. Where one falls, a hundred more will spring up. Where one is prisoned, 1,000,000 are trained.

This is a fight the RIAA cannot possibly win. The internet has allowed the consumer market to become aware of how badly they get screwed by corporate america, and we outnumber them millions upon millions to one.

They are going down. We know it. They know it. This is simply the last, grasping breaths of an anachronistic corporate hold on media in an age where anything is simply a click away.

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

Code_Arch

600 mp3s > 1.5gigs

unless they are all 10 second hardcore tracks

I was wondering when this would make the frontpage. Farkers were linking this early in the day in the threads.

Here is how one provider deals with subpeonas

Fark the RIAA, the IRA, the whatever..

http://cryptome.org/cryptome-log.htm

Nightsweat: that date is my birthday, You must be a psychic to know that it was and probably can talk to dead people! What did my great grandfather tell you to tell me? And on another note, John Edwards is the worlds biggest douche.

Your search for "Wil Wheaton Porn" did not return any results. You will now be reported to WWDN for attempting to obtain non-existent copyrighted materials. We will now publicly humiliate you by revealing in Fark.com that you searched for said items and that your most frequent search is for "ashcroft bukkake."

Oi, Morchella!

http://www.cafeshops.com/morchella_ob

asshats

I rip all my CDs to MP3 to play on my MP3 player. 6 gigs of 192 kbps goodness, baby. And it's aaaaaalllllllll legal. The RIAA may not want it to be, but, damn, I love fair use...

"Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the RIAA came, but it got too big and fat, so it died and turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes..."

I am, at this very moment, sharing over 1000 mp3s, from a lot of music genres. bring it on RIAA.

Reading this article reminded me that Kazaa was off.

I'm at work, did we just bomb Iraq?

plus tons of music videos and 100MB programs. I have at least 2.5 gigs that I share.

As the article said, prosecuting individual offenders is a legal club the RIAA has yet been unwilling to use. Undoubtedly it would provoke outrage.

That is, however, their ultimate goal. They know that the accomplish it, it must be done in steps. This test case forced Verizon to reveal identity information to a copyright holder.

Once they're inundated with subpoenas as a result of this ruling, Verizon will set up a webpage where an RIAA rep can look up an ISP user's information. Better automate so we don't have to pay much to handle all these requests right?

But wait, then Verizon realizes that the only reason they want this information is so they can go to court again and ask a judge to force Verizon to cut the user off.

If the RIAA wins that, Verizon soon automates this process to speed up and reduce cost of enforcing it. Then guess what? You log onto Kazaa, the RIAA sees your IP, they do a few clicks and you're cut off. Why shouldn't Verizon give the RIAA direct access to cut off it's members? If they fight it they'll lose, which is the purpose of these test cases.

So ya'll act like it's no big deal, and I know it's an exaggeration somewhat to believe that Verizon would automate this, basically giving the RIAA a button to reduce it's subscriber count - so Verizon would probably make it difficult for them, for a while. But obviously it's all about money for Verizon, so we can't see this possiblity as too far off.

Using Kazaa or anything like it in a way against the RIAA's (or any other copyright holder's) wishes will subject you to an immediate disconnect, with the RIAA on the hot button.

Have fun downloading MP3s!

I love Metallica. They're the heaviest band ever!!!! They're so awesome I love them so much. I especially like that rap song they did for cheap money. If anyone else has heard of it and actually listened to it I hope your death comes soon and quickly because I pity you a lot and hope you find peace for your soul.

And for the love of God........

end sarcasm