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RIAA & "Legal" Hacking
by Maarten Goldstein, Oct 15, 2001 1:21pm PDTRIAA Wants to Hack Your PC is a Wired.com article about a hacking-authorization amendment that the Recording Industry Association of America tried to tag on an anti-terrorism bill that Congress approved last week. Basically this would've allowed movie and music copyright holders to break into your PC and not be responsible for the loss of data. Even though the RIAA changed its stance on this point somewhat knowing it would not be approved, it's still looking for something similar to be approved.
"We might try and block somebody," Glazier said. "If we know someone is operating a server, a pirated music facility, we could try to take measures to try and prevent them from uploading or transmitting pirated documents." The RIAA believes that this kind of technological "self-help" against online pirates, if done carefully, is legal under current federal law. But the RIAA is worried about the USA Act banning that practice -- and neither the Senate nor the House versions of that bill include the RIAA's suggested changes.
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Its called the 4th amendment. (search and seizure prohibits unneccassary invasions
with out a search warrant)
If by some possible stretch of our imagination, this is passed i, what i will do is change the name of the kernel in my os to metallica-kingnothing.mp3.exe, change all refrences to the new file name, and then sue the RIAA when they delete my kernel.
BAH.
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I know music and gaming scene can't be compared head to head. But shall piracy be one of those ways to 'try-before-we-buy'?
As to RIAA stuff, a complete bullsxxt. Are we seeing those fantasies in 1984 come true?
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"hacking-authorization amendment that the Recording Industry Association of America tried to tag on an anti-terrorism bill that Congress approved last week"
Who the fuck takes advantage of the deaths of 1000's of innocent people to
further their own greedy agenda?
Well, of couse RIAA does!
Im going to start selling CD's of music to friends now,
how hard is it to get access to a DVD burner? Anyone?
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I would actually write something more insightful here... But come on, this is so fucking silly it doesn't even need it.
either way something is seriously wrong with the American law making practices (not saying Canada is much better, but we dont have big oil, big tobacco or big media in our pockets, as much at least)
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-8,000 POINTS
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For now, though, I'm only buying independent-label CDs, and I'm not going to any movie theater ever again. Sure, that won't mean much in the long run, but I'd at least be immune from the stupefying crap that the big 5 and the big 7 keep churning out.
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the Senate nor the House versions of that bill include the RIAA's suggested changes." Therefore, barring any further changes to the bill, their plans for world domination are foiled this time. And there's investigation into whether the RIAA and MPAA can even enforce their copyrights.
This will hopefully blow by like yesterday's news.
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* H 4 X 0 R 3 D *
junk mail and complaints of course
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I'll agree with one thing, though; they simply can't enforce all of their copyrights anymore. There's so many ways to distribute MP3 files and DivX'ed movies. College networks are filled to the brim with students serving these up across the LAN, and the colleges turn a blind eye because it would be too expensive to raid every single dorm room housing an "offender". This "piracy" has become the norm.