[Rumori] latest riaa newsBillboard vandalism and other illegal art (fwd)

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I do not live in the US, the are going to sue me too?

By the way, I use Soulseek (www.slsk.org). It's OK but it has some problems.
Does someone suggest a better P2P program? Did someone mention Bearshare?
Should I try it?

The main problem with Soulseek is that when the program hangs, there are
chances you are not completely disconnected (seems like there is a central
server, so I guess it's not a real P2P: it's more like Napster) and you can't
reconnect because you are supposed to be already there. The only solution is
to change your nickname, but of course you lose contact with people who were
downloading from you.

I've had to change my nickname 3 or 4 times in the last months, which is a
pity because I use it as a home-made server. I offer the 30+ CDs on my own
label, Hazard Records, and some other political., strange or illegal music,
too. If you want to check, my current nick is "aton".

Anki Toner

En/Na das ha escrit:

> from their site....
>
>                                                            June 25, 2003
>
>                Recording Industry To Begin Collecting Evidence And
> Preparing
>                Lawsuits Against File "Sharers" Who Illegally Offer Music
> Online
>
>                Launching Data-Gathering Effort To Identify Peer-to-Peer
>                Infringers Who Continue To Offer Music To Millions
>
>                WASHINGTON (June 25, 2003) -- Starting tomorrow, the
> Recording Industry
>                Association of America (RIAA) will begin gathering
> evidence and preparing
>                lawsuits against individual computer users who are
> illegally offering to
>                "share" substantial amounts of copyrighted music over
> peer-to-peer
>                networks. In making the announcement, the music industry
> cited its
>                multi-year effort to educate the public about the
> illegality of unauthorized
>                downloading, and underscored the fact that major music
> companies have
>                made vast catalogues of music available to dozens of
> services to help create
>                legitimate, high quality and inexpensive alternatives to
> online piracy.
>
>                "The law is clear and the message to those who are
> distributing substantial
>                quantities of music online should be equally clear ---
> this activity is illegal,
>                you are not anonymous when you do it, and engaging in it
> can have real
>                consequences," said RIAA president Cary Sherman. "We'd
> much rather
>                spend time making music then dealing with legal issues in
> courtrooms. But
>                we cannot stand by while piracy takes a devastating toll
> on artists, musicians,
>                songwriters, retailers and everyone in the music
> industry."
>
>                The RIAA expects to use the data it collects as the basis
> for filing what could
>                ultimately be thousands of lawsuits charging individual
> peer-to-peer music
>                distributors with copyright infringement. The first round
> of suits could take
>                place as early as mid-August.
>
>                Over the past year, the industry has responded to consumer
> demand by
>                making its music available to a wide range of authorized
> online subscription,
>                streaming and download services that make it easier than
> ever for fans to
>                get music legally and inexpensively on the Internet.
> Moreover, these services
>                offer music reliably, in the highest sound quality, and
> without the risks of
>                exposure to viruses or other undesirable material.
>
>                Federal law and the federal courts have been quite clear
> on what is not legal.
>                It is illegal to make available for download copyrighted
> works without
>                permission of the copyright owner. Court decisions have
> affirmed this as well.
>                In the recent Grokster decision, for example, the court
> confirmed that the
>                users of that system were guilty of copyright
> infringement. And in last year's
>                Aimster decision, the judge wrote that the idea that
> "ongoing, massive, and
>                unauthorized distribution and copying of copyrighted works
> somehow
>                constitutes 'personal use' is specious and unsupported."
>
>                "Once we begin our evidence-gathering process, any
> individual computer
>                user who continues to offer music illegally to millions of
> others will run the
>                very real risk of facing legal action in the form of civil
> lawsuits that will cost
>                violators thousands of dollars and potentially subject
> them to criminal
>                prosecution," said Sherman.
>
>                To gather evidence against P2P users who make illegal
> downloading possible,
>                the RIAA will be using software that scans the public
> directories available to
>                any user of a peer-to-peer network. These directories,
> which allow users to
>                find the material they are looking for, list all the files
> that other users of the
>                network are currently offering to distribute. When the
> software finds a user
>                who is offering to distribute copyrighted music files, it
> downloads some of the
>                infringing files, along with the date and time it accessed
> the files.
>
>                Additional information that is publicly available from
> these systems allows the
>                RIAA to then identify their Internet Service Provider
> (ISP). The RIAA can
>                then serve a subpoena on the ISP requesting the name and
> address of the
>                individual whose account was being used to distribute
> copyrighted music.
>                Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), ISPs
> must provide
>                copyright holders with such information when there is
> reason to believe
>                copyrights are being infringed. Almost all ISPs disclose
> this obligation in the
>                User's Terms of Service.
>
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