The RIAA's Rocky Road Ahead 542
The RIAA's new plan to enlist ISPs in its war on file sharing, once it announced it was calling a halt to new consumer lawsuits, is running into rough sledding. Wired reports on the continuing legal murkiness of the RIAA's interpretation of copyright law. And one small ISP in Louisiana asks the recording organization, "You want me to police your intellectual property? What's your billing address?"
Rocky Road (Score:3, Funny)
Dear sir or madame;
You are currently infringing upon a protected named asset; "Rocky Road" ice cream. You are hereby notified to remove any and all uses of a known name, links to it and all other references.
You may, however, re-title the article: "The RIAA's Moose Tracks Ahead" since that name is not copyrighted.
But... (Score:5, Funny)
why does the RIAA have to pay this ISP? Part of the value that the ISP provides to customers is the ability to pirate music. Therefore, the ISP should be paying for this.
And the ISP should send the RIAA a pony.
And a cute little puppy.
Whups, sorry about that. I channeled the RIAA there for a second.
Re:Forget sueing grandma . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Nonono, every year is the year of Linux on the desktop.
Re:Legal? (Score:5, Funny)
I have 60 petabyte of songs downloaded
Is there that much recorded music in the world?
Maybe not by itself, but if you added rap and pop there might be...
Re:Multiple interpretations (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Multiple interpretations (Score:3, Funny)
I'll take that. At 50 million file sharers and 1,500 grand (minimum) a piece for the ISPs to drop them, how long could the RIAA hold out? And i love a good courtrom brawl, it'd make for funny trials.
Re:Multiple interpretations (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, contrair
Here here, it's a doggy-dog world.
so linear (Score:4, Funny)
Only if you listen to 1 song at a time.
the trick is play 500 songs at 4x speed...then you are done in in like 55 years
or if you will 4 songs at 500X speed.
Re:Multiple interpretations (Score:3, Funny)
Or like going into a bar in San Francisco and saying that being homosexual is an affront to God, a huge sin, and everyone is going to burn in hell. Except instead of fists of rage or guns drawn, you get "you big meanie, come on over here so we can sssspank you!"
Re:Multiple interpretations (Score:4, Funny)
Here are your opinions:
Music should be free
Software should be free (except the software written by the developers in slashdot)
Obama is awesome
McCain sucks
America sucks
The war in Iraq is bad
Homosexuality is awesome
There is no God
Criminals should receive a stern talking to, and having learned their lesson, be put back on the street
Guns are evil
Microsoft is evil
Google is awesome (but stay tuned for further updates)
Linux is awesome
Apple is awesome
We will keep you informed as you form other opinions or your opinion changes. Enjoy your discussion on slashdot!
Re:Multiple interpretations (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Multiple interpretations (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Multiple interpretations (Score:5, Funny)
Interestingly, not in France it wouldn't, as anything 'Nazi' is banned in France under French law [bbc.co.uk] ... indeed they could, using popular jargon, be referred to as Nazi nazis.
Do I win a t-shirt?
Re:Legal? (Score:4, Funny)
I first read your response as "crap and poop". Maybe that's an accurate description.
yum! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Legal? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ISPs demanding money is a good idea -- Chris Ro (Score:3, Funny)
And it's a damn stupid idea. I like to target shoot. On a typical trip to the range I go through several hundred rounds of ammo. Under his idiotic plan, my hobby would cost me at least a million dollars. He wants to tax an innocent hobby so that only the very rich and elite chosen class can afford it.
His idea also assumes that criminals would follow the law and only buy their ammo from legitimate ammo suppliers. At $5000/bullet I don't think illegal immigrants would have a problem with a pocket of bullets when they sneak across the border.
Re:Multiple interpretations (Score:3, Funny)
Man, I'm laughing too hard to figure out how best to point out how completely and spectacularly you missed the grandparent post's sarcasm. Did you think he thought "or, contrair" and "here, here" were correct?! That was like the Grand Canyon of sarchasms right there, buddy! Bravo!