Tomek
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join:2002-01-30
Brooklyn, NY
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Now he's violating the settlement by running his search engine. The RIAA will hit back, as always, really hard.
He may have 15 minutes of fame, but 15 years of debt.
I admire that he has balls, why don't he also use his head!
After reading his site, the guy is up to something. I hope it will work. I want to see RIAA loosing lawsuit. w00t
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drakkkar
join:2003-02-07
Houston, TX
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Now he's violating the settlement by running his search engine.
Actually from readying the settlement he is not violating it. It stated that he had to take down Chewplast.com until he could ensure that none of the plaintiffs copyrighted materials would be transferred through it. If he has dummy files only, then he has ensured that it will not be used to copy RIAA songs.
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| reply to Tomek
He's definitely playing with fire, but whether or not he's in contempt may be a different question.
It would appear the paragraph 3(b) of the settlement would control, and since he's not "selling" software, the question may well turn on whether he's [in the words of the settlement, more or less] knowingly facilitating the knowingly unlawful infringement of RIAA members' copyrights, and that could be more difficult to prove.
There's a difference between saying you can't use a technology for something, and saying you can't tell anyone about it. Patent law does this all the time, and if you're going to outlaw even discussion or demonstration of search technology based on copyright law, you have an awful lot of prior VCR and photocopy machine case law to overturn first.
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anxiious
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Natch. He's not running the search engine. He's running a demo of what it looked like using fake files. IE - none of the files listed are available nor are they even real.
This is not breaking his settlement.
I think he's doing good and I admire him for both his request to stop sending in donations and for his thumbing his nose at the RIAA.
Free speech is still free speech. As much as the RIAA would try to supress it. |
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AmeritecTech
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join:2002-09-06
Houston, TX | reply to drakkkar
It states that he has to take efforts to ensure others don't follow in his footsteps. If he's showing the world how his system works, that probably puts him in violation. |
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Smokey
Even drunk on a bet ya make it to Canada
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join:2003-05-20
Va Beach
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| not really, he must show them how to use his software code to write there own version of it to be in violation of the settlement
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