RIAA Sues Usenet.com 495
Several readers pointed us to Torrentfreak's coverage of the RIAA's latest move: the major record labels have launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com. The complaint, filed in the federal District Court in New York, accuses Usenet.com of providing access to millions of copyright-infringing files and slams it for touting its service as a "haven for those seeking pirated content." Usenet.com has been refusing the labels' requests to block access to alleged "copyright infringing groups."
Ahh crap (Score:5, Funny)
I read it for the articles (Score:5, Funny)
Think of the pigeons! (Score:5, Funny)
What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
Misread - RIAA USES Usenet (Score:4, Funny)
Wow, what a difference two letters make, huh?
next up (Score:5, Funny)
Next up, the RIAA sues Nike, for their involvement in a "massive, global-scale sneaker net"
Re:GG RIAA (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet (Score:5, Funny)
yoos net?? (Score:3, Funny)
sorry.
anyway, what is this usenet stuff; and do I have to upgrade my copy of kermit to run it?
Re:Ahh crap (Score:4, Funny)
Abe: No! The burlesque house. So just keep your mouth shut.
I warned you people!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ahh crap (Score:5, Funny)
It was me, I tell ya! That's right, Sammy, it was me. I was tired, ya see, tired of being your pirate pimp! So they's come it to me, see, these guys in a big Limo, see, and they tell's me, they says "Now look here, Thumbs, we knows you've got the goods on this Usenet gag. Spill the guts and we'll forget all about you selling Chinese Madonna CDs down by the docks."
Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet (Score:5, Funny)
This is what happens! (Score:2, Funny)
We warned you about the first rule of Usenet! But no, you guys just didn't listen.
Now look what you did.
Re:Think of the pigeons! (Score:5, Funny)
Does not compute. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I read it for the articles (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Two very silly companies (Score:5, Funny)
God I feel bad for ripping off my 80 year old dad's playboys from the 70's ! Oh wow never knew there could be that much hair down there !
Re:Think of the pigeons! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I warned you people!! (Score:5, Funny)
Hitler considered it appropriate for the state to adopt a view of what is a life worth living (ein lebenswertig Leben) and cast this ideal in aesthetic/ethical, or quasi-biological terms, and, he gave the state the means to the implementation of this ideal. The RIAA is, like Hitler, telling us how life should be lived and paints this ideal in ethical terms and they want to have the means to implement this ideal.
There. Did it. Happy now?
Re:Maybe you should have done a FUCKING search of (Score:5, Funny)
I sense the AOL is strong in this one, yes?
Re:I warned you people!! (Score:3, Funny)
its bullshit analogies like yours that make a complete laughing stock out of anyone who would suggest there is credibility to a debate over copyright reform.
You should stand as a witness for the defense in every single RIAA court case. you would be more effective than 100 RIAA lawyers at making their case for them.
Re:yoos net?? (Score:3, Funny)
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/7/v2/vs [floodgap.com]
First rule of Usenet (Score:5, Funny)
Posted: 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970
Version 0.0.1
Authro: Kibble
Group: Alt.First.Post
The first rule of Usenet is you don't talk about Usenet
Re:I warned you people!! (Score:5, Funny)
Godwin's Law has been triggered. Stop the thread.
Re:First rule of Usenet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I warned you people!! (Score:4, Funny)
Usenet is.... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Think of the pigeons! (Score:4, Funny)
Barium enema, eh?
Re:First rule of Usenet (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
Recursive Indictment Aggregating Association?
Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet (Score:3, Funny)
(25 points to whoever catches that reference...)
Re:First rule of Usenet (Score:5, Funny)
As is traditional, although his grep patterns are atrociously complex and match most common variations on the Name that must not be spelt out.
(At one time, I hear people even avoided discussion of skiboots, for fear of invoking He Who Greps from the depths of the newsfeed...)
Re:Ahh crap (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Pointless (Score:3, Funny)
Trust me, soc.singles is the one group you do not want to be caught with offtopic cross-posts. Those people are Mean!
Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet (Score:4, Funny)
[ Add to wishlist ]
Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet (Score:5, Funny)
I'm assuming you didn't mean gamecube.
Re:Bollocks. Of course it is! (Score:5, Funny)
Let's hope they don't go after web.com and ftp.com next!
Re:I've seen the trickle down effects of piracy (Score:3, Funny)
RIAA sues (Cu) Copper (Score:1, Funny)
I for one... (Score:3, Funny)
I for one welcome our New Sued By RIAA Global Earth Protecting Internet Inventing Al Gore Robot Overlords...
Re:RIAA sues (Cu) Copper (Score:3, Funny)
Re:GG RIAA (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ahh crap-DISMANTLE ONE SERVER AT A TIME (Score:1, Funny)
The truth is that the RIAA truly believes that they are more important than absolutely everybody else in the world!
Next up: RIAA vs. Geo. W. Bush.
Re:What's next? (Score:3, Funny)
RIAA Indictment Aggregation Association.
Re:Maybe you should have done a FUCKING search of (Score:2, Funny)
I'm waiting for them to sue localhost (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First rule of Usenet (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Two very silly companies (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ahh crap-DISMANTLE ONE SERVER AT A TIME (Score:5, Funny)
Cheers.
Re:Ahh crap-DISMANTLE ONE SERVER AT A TIME (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ahh crap (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe not (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ahh crap-DISMANTLE ONE SERVER AT A TIME (Score:3, Funny)
Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Chef's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote "Stinky Britches" ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Gerald Broflovski
Damn it!
Chef
What?
Gerald
He's using the Chewbacca Defense!
Cochran
Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
Mod parent up (Score:2, Funny)
What is the usenet? I don't know. Does anyone know? No! It's nothing! It does not exist. Lawsuits are boring.
Oh! Look! A squirrel!!!
Does anyone like squirrels? Let's talk about squirrels!