RIAA Sues Backbone ISPs to Censor Website 916
prostoalex writes "Music labels filed a lawsuit against major Internet service providers for not blocking access to Listen4Ever.com, music site located in China. The defendants in the suit include AT&T Broadband, Cable & Wireless USA, Sprint Corp., Advanced Network Services and UUNET Technologies." Wow.
Good idea (Score:3, Funny)
It's dead now. (Score:1, Funny)
oh cripes (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
Damn.... (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks RIAA! (Score:5, Funny)
-1 Obvious (Score:3, Funny)
-B
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:5, Funny)
Sincerely,
That Gigantic Fucking Amoeba-Thing from Zelda 64
theme party (Score:5, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
"We can't make money on cars," said a representative of the Harness Makers Association of America (HMAA), "so they should be illegal. Think of all the poor horsies that would be turned into Elmer's if these criminal 'auto enthusists' got there way."
Politicians hailed the passing of the DMTA as a "strong step towards halting all progress and keeping the world exactly as it is. After all, change is scary!"
Re:In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, that should be "their way". Lordy, you'd think I was trying out to be a /. editor. My sincere apologies to my third-grade english teacher at Maywood Elementary School in Monona, WI for the mix-up.
RIAA's obligitary business plan post (Score:5, Funny)
1) Screw customers
2) Screw now former-customers
3) Censor the internet
4) ???
5) Profit!
WHY EVERYTIME YOU BREAK DOWN MY WALL? (Score:5, Funny)
"Every time I build, you American show up and take down my wall! Stop it! You take down my wall for the last time! Stupid Americans!"
Re:Automakers (Score:2, Funny)
Don't thank /., thank the RIAA! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:-1 Obvious (Score:2, Funny)
Nice... (Score:4, Funny)
Haha suckas... yeah mess with the big boys (Score:5, Funny)
Hehe. I can imagine the executives meeting.
"What do you guys control?"
"I control cell phones."
"I am the master of cable."
"I am the undisputed champion of the US Internet backbone."
"So... what do you control for world domination?"
"Ummm.... CD music. Not anything good though, just the really commercialized stuff."
*crowd contains guffaws and laughter starts leaking out*
Upcoming lawsuits from RIAA (Score:5, Funny)
* Power suppliers for making peoples computers run.
* CD-R makers for making piracy easy.
* Microsoft for making WMA (which listen4ever.com uses)
* Linus Torvalds for making Linux and Bill Gates for making Windows which both enable music on computers thus encouraging piracy.
* Consumers for not buying enough CDs.
* Movie companies and game creators for making products that are worth the money so that kids use their money on DVDs and games instead of music.
* Themself for publishing music, thus making it subject to piracy.
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:5, Funny)
If this suit passes in favor of the RIAA, then you can kiss
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:We're Asking the Wrong Question (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone: stoy buying music and instead get illegal copies from your friends.
Oh, wait...
Re:could be a good thing (Score:2, Funny)
Whoa (Score:5, Funny)
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:5, Funny)
> you can kiss The Constitution goodbye.
Uh, The Constitution's *already* gone, "like a turkey through the corn." You can satisfy your kissing urges by kissing the police state hello.
And in other news... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"us domain name" (Score:3, Funny)
This is getting very annoying (Score:3, Funny)
Thank you,
Nathan
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks /. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:3, Funny)
So this single-celled organism, without so much as a finger to type with, has managed to acquire a Clue whilest the entire Recording Industry Association has not. I swear, sometimes it's a real shame we humans have insulated ourselves from 'survival of the fittest' because there's an awful lot of chumps out there that need to be Darwinized.
Do that when they start DOSing. B-) (Score:3, Funny)
That will be especially interesting when/if the RIAA gets congressional authorization to DOS P2Pers.
"Those guys were flooding our network with packets and DoSing some of our customers' customers. That's against our acceptable use policies and it was chewing up our backbone bandwidth. So we had to cut them off. No, it's just a coincidence that they were already suing us..."
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:5, Funny)
Sincerely, That Gigantic Fucking Amoeba-Thing from Zelda 64
Mom reads ./?
Re:Yep, it's the T-Rex complex! (Score:4, Funny)
More like Godzilla meet Mecha-Godzilla. Both are giant firebreathing monsters, and no matter who wins, the public (and the infrastructure) gets squished and charbroiled in the process.
Re:theme party (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno, lemme try suing them...
Damn, they're already broke...
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:1, Funny)
This is like suing General Electric for providing the light by which one can read copyrighted materials...
This is like suing God for providing the sight that allows someone to read copyrighted materials..
"Can you think? Pay us money!"
When does all thought become "derivative work"?
-dameron
Business opportunity? (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm....
Warner vs. Warner (Score:2, Funny)
'Plaintiffs in the suit include such major labels as'
So, since I can get to this site via RoadRunner, will Warner Brothers be suing Time Warner Cable?
Re:Crappy music jokes aside (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is getting very annoying (Score:1, Funny)
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:2, Funny)
Yes I do dearie!
Oh, the Irony! (Score:1, Funny)
How awful! How totaliatarian!
And here we have an actual case of ISP's re-routing traffic, to censor access to web sites.. IN CHINA!
How... all-American!
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:2, Funny)
Preferably both.
Re:from the rabid-knee-jerk-reactions dept. (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah speaking of which, I'm starting to wonder who are the biggest assholes of the two nowadays