RIAA vs The World

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Published February 3, 2006

A woman is sued by the RIAA for using an “online distribution system” to “download, distribute, and/or make available for distribution” plaintiff’s music files, even though she has never used a computer in her life.

Before you fry the RIAA, perhaps you should read this interesting comment on Slashdot:

This woman does laundry a lot and has no dryer, so she hangs her clothes to dry. When the RIAA said she was using an “online distribution system” to make plaintiff’s music files available, they were not referring to a computer; what they meant was that she is often heard whistling copyrighted songs while she hangs clothes on the line; hence, “online distribution system.” …
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  1. James February 7, 2006 at 1:27 pm

    This BBC news arcticle made me chuckle:

    Global court action against music file-sharers has not reduced illegal downloading, an industry report says.

    The level of file-sharing has remained the same for two years despite 20,000 legal cases in 17 countries. All they’re doing is hurting themselves with all these lawsuits it seems.

    Also this made me laugh:

    Mr Kennedy, writing in the report, said DRM “helps get music to consumers in new and flexible ways”.
    What the f**k? New and flexible ways? New? Hardly. Flexible? Certainly not.

    Anyway, why do I care any more? I use legal, DRM-free downloads anyway ;)

    James.

  2. James February 7, 2006 at 1:30 pm

    For a chuckle, here’s the article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4627368.stm :)

  3. Weiran Zhang February 7, 2006 at 1:31 pm

    “Flexible”?! DRM is a curse on any form of media, and it only helps to protect the profits and market-share of record companies because they can’t find a good way to embrace the internet, so they fight against it.

    Either way, they’ll eventually loose. If not in the US, they definatly will in Europe, where their lobbyists don’t have so much control.