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RIAA : fine, fine...

Yup.

According to this article on slashdot, it seem that the magistrates are beginning to have enough of the RIAA masquerade.
Take a look :

"Angered at the RIAA's 'gamesmanship' in joining multiple 'John Does' in a single case without any basis for doing so, a Magistrate Judge in Maine has suggested to the presiding District Judge in Arista v. Does 1-27 that the record companies and/or their lawyers should be fined under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules, for misrepresenting the facts. In a lengthy footnote to her opinion recommending denial of a motion to dismiss the complaint (PDF, see footnote 5), Judge Kruvchak concluded that 'These plaintiffs have devised a clever scheme to obtain court-authorized discovery prior to the service of complaints, but it troubles me that they do so with impunity and at the expense of the requirements of Rule 11(b)(3) because they have no good faith evidentiary basis to believe the cases should be joined.' She noted that once the RIAA dismisses its 'John Doe' case it does not thereafter join the defendants when it sues them in their real names. Arista v. Does 1-27 is the same case in which student attorneys at the University of Maine Law School, "enthusiastic about being directly connected to a case with a national scope and significance", are representing undergrads targeted by the RIAA."

I suggest forcing the lads to listen to Brit's new single 2747 times per John Doe added. Migt cure their pre-Alzheimer though.

Shame In Rainbows

Long, again, so... bullet points :

  • Last Radiohead album is available for free
  • Still, people torrent the songs using a wide range of arguments
  • This fact reinforce the idea that user are "bad" as well as not giving credits to he band's endeavor.

For those who haven't followed last week's news, In Rainbows is the last album from the band Radiohead.

This album has the particularity to be available online, at whatever price you want to pay.
(The first time I got the news it was there)

Yup, you've read it right. You can chose to pay nothing, it wont matter.

So why haven't I been blogging about that before ? Because I wanted to know what it was all bout, I wanted to see what would happen before going down the street and scream in frenetic ataraxia.

Well I was right, now I have something more consistent to blog about than "music revolution whatever".
That's true, this process is a revolution, it's a first time, and it's much more responsible than saying "Meh dun like der copywait, meh frienleh singar".

But then, this page tell me that an uber lot of people are doing nothing with the so called revolution and downloading it via torrent as just another Nelly Furtado single.

Woah, that's a lot of polemic here. And I see a lot of arguments, pro and cons, and to me mind a whole lot of it are definitely shallow and hypocritical, particularly the pro torrent.

  • Pros torrent says : You have to pay anyway, a small minimum fee but you have to pay.

What the... ? Where have you been to download the stuff ? I did it, right, just to see if it was right, and you don't have to pay a dime. It's FREE !

Or maybe you are talking about the CD shipped version. Well, you don't expect them to pay the handling fees do you ?


  • Pros torrent says : The compression is only 160kbps.
Yeah, and for free, over the internet (Do you know that traffic is not free ? Do you know they, Radiohead, actually pay for it while you are complaining ?). What do you want more, a chocolate bar and a goodnight kiss ?


  • Pros torrent says : The site was overloaded, difficult, and they asked to many personal info.

That's the "best of the best... of the best, with honors" So you couldn't try ? I've been there and anybody with more patience than the basic hyperactive puppy can download the stuff. There is a minor cookie problem, but I assume that if you disabled them you know why you did it and how to enable them back, right ?

Then if the site was really that slow, you couldn't wait a week to get the tune ? Really, were you so starving ? If you are such a huge fan why don't you order the disk ?

And don' say anything about the personal info, it's not as if they checked on it, visiting you at night to ask you questions...


  • Pros torrent says : You are missing the point, they don't care if you torrent it.
Obviously we are.

Can I call you airhead ?

Don't you see that the RIAA and a lot of stupid media are targeting the users ? Do you forget that the WE are the people looked at as pirates ? So that's how we must show the industry we are responsible ? Even if we have the possibility to get something for free, we have to show an obvious lack of respect to the band as well as reinforcing the idea that Usars Is Der Evil ?

Someone said that they would have done better to provide a torrent link on the page with a donation box.

Well they didn't and that's their choice.

All I know, and you can give any argument you like, is that :

  1. You are not paying them any tribute but getting their music by torrent, you are just acting as if it was another major's p00p

  2. You are attracting the eyes of all the MAFIAA and all the people that thing we should charge 220.000$ for a bunch of songs regardless of if you are a parallel industry magnate or a single mother.
So don't complain next time someone says or writes about users being irresponsible, because now this is a proved fact.

Wake up people !


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