RIAA files 871 subpoenas
Wow. Did we all miss this, or did nobody deem it worthy of noting? The darn construction company here at school cut our fibre cable the other day, so I didn't have access to the net to catch this gem... was it already discussed? Anywho... Here's the CNN article: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne....ap/index.html
Now, apparently some schools are fighting the subpoena for the actual names of the students... they are claiming that the subpoenas were incorrectly filed. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne....ap/index.html
And TechTV (http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/s...484600,00.html) listed all the user names that are under the subpoenas... ALL of them are from Kazaa, with 3 under Grokster, and one poor soul for filesharing, and their name was "flowerpower." May I ask, what PC user would name their computer flowerpower? Let's give a heartfelt "Awww" for this poor Mac user that's getting slapped upside the head from the RIAA.
I really don't think that the RIAA is going to make any friends by sending out greeting cards - erm, I mean subpoenas to everyone under the sun. Along the same lines, I was REALLY upset when I discovered that one of the CDs that I just bought was copy protected. I can't even get past it with a magic marker. GRRR.
Now, apparently some schools are fighting the subpoena for the actual names of the students... they are claiming that the subpoenas were incorrectly filed. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne....ap/index.html
And TechTV (http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/s...484600,00.html) listed all the user names that are under the subpoenas... ALL of them are from Kazaa, with 3 under Grokster, and one poor soul for filesharing, and their name was "flowerpower." May I ask, what PC user would name their computer flowerpower? Let's give a heartfelt "Awww" for this poor Mac user that's getting slapped upside the head from the RIAA.
I really don't think that the RIAA is going to make any friends by sending out greeting cards - erm, I mean subpoenas to everyone under the sun. Along the same lines, I was REALLY upset when I discovered that one of the CDs that I just bought was copy protected. I can't even get past it with a magic marker. GRRR.
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I'm guessing though that they are going after MAJOR downloaders first.
I don't know, as a consumer I'm pissed, but, well, they did break the law