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p2pnet.net News:- It’s Christmas – the season of goodwill.
So naturally, EMI, UMG, Sony-BMG and EMI, the members of the Big Four music label cartel, are celebrating it by suing another 754 people, further underscoring their utter contempt for the ‘consumers’ they’re trying to intimidate into buying ‘product’.
This new onslaught brings the total number of people sued to 7,706. However, the vicious sue ‘em all campaign is proving to be fruitless.
The average number of people simultaneously logged on to the p2p file sharing networks at any given moment increased significantly from 6,255,986 in October to 7,452,184 in November, Big Champagne ceo Eric Garland told p2pnet.
The number of users on p2p networks in the US went up from 4,435,395 in October to 5,445,275 in November.
Students at the University of Pennsylvania are among the latest victims. Students at Penn State, the first major US institution of higher learning to become a Big Music sales, PR and enforcement unit, are not.
“What we hear from our students is ‘We don’t want to be sued’,” Tom Warner, director of coordinated technology management at the University of North Carolina, said recently.
Suing them is the cartel’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) whose president, Cary Sherman (top right), co-chairs the JCHEEC, an entertainment industry committee with Penn State president Graham Spanier as the other chair.
“The lawsuits are an essential educational tool,” says Sherman. “They remind music fans about the law and provide incentives to university administrators to offer legal alternatives.”
The “legal alternatives” are the cartel’s low-fi, over-priced mp3s, sold through the various corporate music sites which the labels back and supply.
The cartel characterizes its victims as criminals and thieves.
They’re neither.
They’re your next door neighbours. Mothers, fathers, children, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, university students and pupils at elementary schools.
Ordinary people.
They’re sharing music, not selling it in black-markets around the world, unlike the real crooks, the organized criminal counterfeiters and duplicators who have become almost as wealthy as the labels, selling the easily copied CDs and DVDs the recording industry mindlessly churns out in the billions.
P2p file sharers would willingly pay for reasonably priced downloads. But they’re no longer prepared to be the victims of virtual extortion.
December 17th, 2004 at 9:30 pm
They’re probably shooting for an even grand before the New Year.
Morg
December 17th, 2004 at 10:13 pm
The “lost” sales must have effected their xmas bonus, so they anted to spread the chear and goodwill around.
December 18th, 2004 at 5:40 am
Shouldn’t Old Cary Sue’m all Sherman be dressed as Scrooge?????? Santa repersents all that is good about people. There is NO good in the Riaa’s clowns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 18th, 2004 at 11:19 pm
This is bull I am so sick of hearing all of this sueing stuff. Oh by the way what is the best around p2p system to use now a days?
December 19th, 2004 at 8:03 pm
A lot of fallout from these last actions, suprnova’s down and not coming back this time (well for the foreseeable future) they’ve even killed any discussion about torrents on their forums.
Many, many others are being killed off
December 19th, 2004 at 8:59 pm
That everyone wakes up and realises that these cartels are just extortionists. They’re just interested in is “money money money”. Oops, is that copyrighted?? I mean grrr wtf!!!
December 20th, 2004 at 2:35 pm
Define “best”.
December 20th, 2004 at 5:11 pm
And my Christmas wish is that the Record Industry execs, their lawyers and the entire staff of the RIAA don’t wake up ever again.
December 20th, 2004 at 5:27 pm
One solution to the suing problem would to have a universal boycott of all music… CD’s, live shows DVD’s, etc, for at least a year. One way to lower prices on anything is to make supply larger than demand. Nobody needs new music to survive. BOYCOTT!!!!
December 20th, 2004 at 10:46 pm
news groups.
I hear people using irc are getting notices too.
December 21st, 2004 at 7:04 am
The Best? DirectConnect has and always will be the ‘best’ imho; however, thats not covering you if you live in any US-Media controlled country lol…
I suggest peerguardian or p2p hazard be running on every pc in the world.. lmao.
Nothing’s perfect though, so unless ya want sued, dont share anything - as of yet they’re not going after downloaders…….just ppl who share what they download.
December 21st, 2004 at 9:10 am
a complete boycott of all artists belonging to major labels. that means live/cds/web/downloads everything. only buy from indie’s and direct from the artists. anything attached to the riaa should be completely avoided, and the artists themselves should be made aware that they will not sell another thing while the current system is as it is.
hmm?
December 21st, 2004 at 9:28 am
eMule is the absolute shiznet
you can’t go wrong with it
December 21st, 2004 at 3:15 pm
Yeah. We should everything for free. Ford wants to charge me 10,000 for a car. I won’t be their victim. I am going to cut a hole in the fence of the dealship and steal it. And I will be right to do so just as you are right to steal music!
December 21st, 2004 at 3:26 pm
Oh yeah, looks like these scrooges are on the rampage. Sue, the poor and needy
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/20/music_biz_red_cross/
Australian anti-piracy operatives are seeking a freeze on funds donated to the International Red Cross by a Vanuatu-based trust fund run by Sharman Networks - maker of Kazaa P2P software.
The recording industry is asking the Red Cross to voluntarily freeze the cash pending the outcome of an Australian court case brought against Sharman by several record companies.
Michael Speck of Australia’s Music Industry Piracy Investigations said: “We’re preparing our approach to the International Red Cross. I believe this whole thing will come as a complete surprise to them, and we’re only approaching them to stop them disposing of any funds.”
Speck expressed his hope that the Red Cross would co-operate, adding: “It would be incredibly disappointing if we had to sue them.”
I mean wtf … these people are mafia assholes gone bad!!!!!
December 21st, 2004 at 3:31 pm
I agree BOYCOTT BOYCOTT and spread the word!!!
December 21st, 2004 at 3:38 pm
Hmmm … well it sounds like you don’t have a brain at all.
A “car” is a physical item … if you TAKE it, it means they no longer have that car.
COPYRIGHT is COPYING something, NOT TAKING … do you understand?
Photocopying, taking a photo of something, recording something, whether it’s a painting, tv show, music, video is COPYING … THE OWNER STILL HAS THE ORIGINAL PHYSICAL ITEM. IDIOT!!
December 22nd, 2004 at 1:09 pm
This has gone past bizarreness.We need our computer minds to fight this war.It was a computer mind that started it and it can be a computer mind to win it.I have always wondered why it always seems to be a grandmother,child,college student or just your average Joe that gets sued.Do they check first and make sure you have no money or means to fight back? You would think by now a lawyer or someone with the means to fight back would have been sued by now.Think about that.No one person,who has been sued, has had the means to fight back,it just doesn’t sound right.There should be a “Fight the RIAA\MPAA” NATIONAL DONATION CENTER STARTED.I would gladly contribute and I bet many others would to.Am I just dreaming or what?
December 22nd, 2004 at 1:39 pm
you are not dreaming.. in fact it has been in place for quite a while now http://www.downhillbattle.org/defense/
December 22nd, 2004 at 3:29 pm
Yep, there’s http://www.downhillbattle.org/defense/ and also https://secure.eff.org/ are doing a lot to fight this and also protect many other aspects of technology.
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We (with your support) helped make sure terrible legislation like the PIRATE Act and the Induce Act did not pass.
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While these victories are sweet, the fight is far from over.
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December 22nd, 2004 at 6:31 pm
I don’t buy shit. If no more music is EVER made again, who gives a fuck. All the best songs have already been written. When’s the last time U’ve wanted to plunk down cash to buy anything new, except some Greatest Hits package.
December 22nd, 2004 at 6:34 pm
Fuck you. That’s idiotic logic, actually, that’s not logic @ all. U’ve stolen a physical product. A download doesn’t equal a theft shit 4 brains. Take your moron theology somewhere else. Who goes on a P2P site and complains about P2P? Go to an ANTI-P2P site.
Some people are complete dumbasses.
December 22nd, 2004 at 6:37 pm
Yeah. I doubt that they’d sue Jenna Bush, Supreme Mafia-Don George W. Bush’s daughter.
December 23rd, 2004 at 9:38 pm
Check this out - http://p2pnet.net/story/3345
Cheers!
December 24th, 2004 at 7:06 pm
Encrypted File sharing!!!
http://www.filetopia.org/
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http://www.filetopia.org/
December 24th, 2004 at 9:14 pm
http://www.openwares.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=&func=fileinfo&parent=folder&filecatid=19
December 25th, 2004 at 6:36 pm
“It’s Christmas – the season of goodwill”
here’s mine never knowingly buy anything from these companies again : I wont pay them to sue me or my friends
December 25th, 2004 at 9:14 pm
MAn, if your asking who the thieves are, its the *lawfucking* RIAA sueing random people and overpricing its music calling it a *legal alternitive* Legal my ass. Everyone in the RIAA can go straight to H E double hocky sticks.
December 25th, 2004 at 10:59 pm
that really suck
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December 25th, 2004 at 11:00 pm
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December 25th, 2004 at 11:00 pm
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December 26th, 2004 at 1:34 am
The fact is you’re not supposed to get something for nothing. Sueing people isnt a preventative measure so in the long run it won’t work. People in the music/ entertainment business get paid too much and are treated like heroes. Its a false reality that is screwing the economy more than p2p ever will.
The only way it is going to work out is if there is a compromise - e.g you can download the music but pay a lot less than you would - a CD.
It’s either a compromise or a Revolution. I’m in favor of the latter So who’s with me?
M.
December 26th, 2004 at 9:51 am
Filetopia is dead….
Look into Freenet or ANTS.
December 27th, 2004 at 5:46 pm
> …increased from 6,255,986 in October to 7,452,184
> …US went up from 4,435,395 in October to 5,445,275
> in November.
Who does really think that 2/3 of all filesharers live in USA? Hands up! Korea, China, Japan, Germany, Finnland, France (Poland, Sweden, Russia, Turkey…) do provide much more than 2Mio Filesharers and even more than 6Mio (16Mio +-2Mio would be a good guess). Instead of seeing FS as a chance USA (and some of the above countries stupid enough to imitate it) think of it as a new phenomenon they could fight. In the end it will be a loose/loose situation nothing more.
December 28th, 2004 at 6:39 pm
I was thinking about stopping at the mall to pick up a U2 CD, but now that I saw this Chr-stmas lawsuit going on, I think I’ll download the tunes I want. Congratualations RIAA, you just lost another customer. I wil keep downloaading until you re-imburse every one of your victims.
February 9th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
A lot of fallout from these last actions, suprnova’s down and not coming back this time (well for the foreseeable future) they’ve even killed any discussion about torrents on their forums.
Many, many others are being killed off
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