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

[Vicki Bennett]

Good point - does the host server have to be on American soil?

>I do not live in the US, the are going to sue me too?
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>Anki Toner
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>En/Na das ha escrit:
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>>  from their site....
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>>                                                             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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