P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-08-15 – RIAA
Soooo much RIAA stuff this week I had to break the P2P News comments into two posts, and the RIAA section is still too large.
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The RIAA’s target is too dead to sue so they sue the family instead… Guessing disposition or depose means taking their inheritance or maybe they are inheriting his ‘liabilities’. The IRS does this with deceased and wounded Iraq-War vets too.
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Looks like the RIAA gave up hope on making a cruel example of the Scantlebury inheritance estate (Dead ex-vietnam helicoptor pilot)
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The RIAA is sueing Iraq servicemen too… Dead Grandmothers…. Some other new victims as well. Noticed that many use kazaa and most are techno-noobs and many of the non-ignorant are bad leechers (Emule / Incoming files always shared). If you can’t pay your settlement they have go through with the lawsuit and get a judgement. Without the lawsuit, it will only show up as a derogetory item for the (collections account for the settlement amount as if you stopped paying your cell-phone bill and let it go to collections) on your credit, which is usually a good 20+ point dock off your credit score.
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I hate patents. Now that the RIAA has some puppet strings into Sharman Networks (Kazaa) and their partnerships, they are hesitating to use the advantage to their own cruel ends. I won’t miss Morpheus that much though. Shareaza is a much better multi-network client (ED2K, Gnutella, BitTorrent). Got MLDonkey too. Both are Open Source.
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The RIAA is trying to reduce costs on their ’sue them all’ campaign. Only problem is that they are as bad as that Henry Conn lawyer (actually his team of paralegal collections staff) with the extra threats and harrassment. Thats why they are being nailed for racketeering. Lawsuits that are not small claims are expensive, at least in Arizona they are. Victory feasability and also Garnishment feasability research is even more expensive and often requires pseudo-legal inquiries in such as ‘marketing’ credit report inqueries. It is far easier to just threaten and scare and most people fall for it. It appears that the lawyers/agencies behind RIAA lawsuits are working very similar to written-off credit card debt collection in workings. The number of written off credit card accounts is just too overwhelming to straightly and directly ’sue em all’, and it appears much more so for music downloaders with the RIAA. The RIAA probably finds the ‘evidence’ and sells it to thrid-party collections agencies. Works just like them credit cards. And it don’t matter whether you’re guilty or innocent (I had 1x guilty – MBNA – 1x innocent – Discover – already paid a different agency, possibly a fraud).
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More articles on RIAA victims fighting back
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The fact that a simple IP blocker can work wonders in keeping a RIAA lawsuit at bay shows that the RIAA’s sue em’ all campaign is largely a bulk automated process as these articles say. The RIAA uses fake servers and automated spider bots that download files from users. To be put into the random pool for a lawsuit it has to download a whole MP3 file or a full chunk of a larger album or discography archive (if they even monitor thise). Since their equipment is network-universal, they pay no attention to userhashes or even Emule’s Secure-Ident protocol (Emule clients only not part of ED2K). IP blockers are defenseless against a private investigator or FBI investigator targeting you as an individual or as a member of a small group.
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Too many leaked court documents for the RIAA? Guess the defendants are getting too much free legal help. It will take a few days for the judge to approve the gag order. Get the uncovered court docs online to unaffiliate third parties with at most mediocre sue-ability while you still can!
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In my opinion P2P is not killing CD / DRM-download sales, but it may be denting the growth rate enough to bother investors though.
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More RIAA Articles. The RIAA is EVIL.
