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In a recent pole, app. 1 year ago, 75% or more of senators and congressman were admitedly 1. alcholics 2.drug addicts 3. gay 4. a combination of the above.Hello.
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They're at it again, after a lull in lawsuits being filed, they aren't giving up... :P
RIAA embarks on new round of piracy suits
From CNET
1/21/04
The Recording Industry Association of America launched its largest wave of file-swapping lawsuits Wednesday, filing new copyright infringement suits against 532 currently unnamed individuals.
The suits are the industry group's first since an appeals court in December blocked its original strategy of identifying alleged file swappers before filing lawsuits by sending subpoenas to their Internet service providers. As a result, Wednesday's legal actions target hundreds of unnamed or "John Doe" computer users, whose identities will be added to the suits only after a court process likely to take several weeks.
"The process by which we identify defendants has changed, but the program has not," RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a press conference to announce the lawsuits. "Our message should be as clear as ever: We can and will continue to bring lawsuits against those who distribute music to millions of strangers."
The move comes after a month of mixed news for the RIAA, which had a set of legal setbacks--including the appeals court ruling on the subpoena issue--and some indications that the dampening effect of lawsuits on file swapping may be wearing off.
A survey the Pew Internet & American Life Project took in December found that just 14 percent of Americans said they had recently downloaded music from a file-swapping network, compared with 29 percent in a similar survey completed in May 2003.
In contrast, a report released last week by Internet monitoring firm The NPD Group found that music file swapping rose 14 percent between September and November, after falling substantially earlier in the year. The research firm attributed its findings in part to the lack of recent high-profile news about legal enforcement as well as a seasonal rise in music releases, but said it could not pinpoint specific reasons for the turnaround.
"Do people start to return to their old behaviors when they don't believe you're actively going to take them to task?" asked NPD researcher Russ Crupnick. "We don't have any specific data on that...so it is just a trend that bears watching."
The RIAA declined to comment on the studies, saying different groups used different methodologies and that it is impossible to compare them accurately. Its campaign had been undeniably successful in teaching people about the legal issues surrounding file trading, executives said.
"What we do know for certain is that awareness has shot through the roof," said Mitch Bainwol, the RIAA's new chief executive officer, citing the results of a study the industry group privately commissioned. "Prior to the launch of these legal actions, 35 percent of the population understood that (trading copyrighted music online) was illegal. Now, that percentage is in the mid-60s."
As the group is taking a new legal approach, instituted to comply with the December appeals court order, the new lawsuits are being filed in four batches against large numbers of anonymous individuals. Although suits are bundled around ISPs and are being filed in New York and Washington, D.C., the RIAA declined to name which Net service providers are involved.
Instead of names, the suits contain information on the Internet Protocol addresses of alleged file swappers. An IP address is a technological routing device assigned each Net surfer by their ISPs while online. The RIAA plans to ask judges to open a legal discovery process that will allow it to obtain the subscriber information associated with those IP addresses. The subscribers' names will then be added to the lawsuits.
The subscribers will be given a chance to settle before their names are officially added to the suits, Sherman said. However, the settlement amounts offered by the RIAA may be higher than in previous rounds, since the new process has raised legal costs, and the earlier suits have made it far less likely that a file trader could plead genuine ignorance of the law around the issue, the group said.
Wednesday's suits bring the total number of people in the United States sued by the RIAA for file swapping to 914. Sherman said 233 suits have been settled so far; another 100 suits reached settlement agreements, at an average of about $3,000.
Other music industry groups in Canada and Europe have indicated in recent months that they are likely to follow the RIAA's lead and begin filing suits against people swapping copyrighted music online in their own regions. None of these legal actions have yet occurred.Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny -
not sure how it would work out in canada as we pay a tax on blank cd's for some kind of purpose as this (i think - no one seems to know where the money goes or how its collected)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650) -
What does the RIAA wish to gain from this? Dumb question... they want to take back what was once a cash cow for them. They want put the music back under their control... So they slap a few thousand people with lawsuits... that's only about 1/2500 of the people who actively use p2p. If they would take these resources spent on lawsuits and subpoenas and turn into a suitable alternative to p2p that the entire "music loving world" could embrace... also stop putting limitations on the music with DRM, I think most of their problems would cease. Will p2p ever disappear... no, I don't think so. As long there is a medium in which you can obtain something for free over paying for that item... no, it will never stop. Along with this, maybe they should be a little more selective in signing artists and promoting artists. Does anyone remember in the early nineties when the labels did a huge house cleaning and dumped artists who didn't sell? Everytime they sign an artist and spend money on album production/manufacturing and promotion... there is as 50/50 chance that album will bomb. Personally, I think it's great when this happens. I love the fact that Britney Spears' latest album is doing poorly, or Nick Lachey album is doing poorly. Kick these people to the curb!!!!
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