Mortis
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Re: How does SBC stand RE: recent RIAA activity?
Just my opinion here, but there is a difference, Wal-mart doesn't try to charge you a minimum of $750 per candy bar infringed. Who are these RIAA people hacking into your system? Law enforcement? Do they have a warrant to search your system? No, they are hackers, who now seemed legally endorsed to search private property on behalf of businesses. Be very careful what you wish for...just because something is legal or illegal doesn't make it right or wrong. We all can think of stupid laws that have no weight.
You may laugh, but soon other companies will form RIAA-like consortiums. Soon, perhaps Micro$oft will be continuously scanning and blocking anyone who modifies the "functionality" of Windows, which is a TOS violation. "Sorry, sir, but you owe us $750 for infringing our intellectual rights by disabling our moronic and useless Messenger application." Where does it say in any law that it is okay to destroy someone else's intellectual property by crashing web servers and such on the suspicion of piracy? If so, that would mean it is legal for me to cause a denial of service attack on Microsoft? They stole Windows from Mac and their software is anticompetitive....isn't suspicion enough? How about a bundled antipiracy package placed obligatorily into antivirus software, in order to assure that your system is "legitimate". Do you know that if you change too many of your system components, that Windows XP can arbitrarily decide that you have a "new system" and therefore you need to re-pay for it? As a person who likes to upgrade his computer, I think that it is fair to use my XP OS on one machine at a time. Microsoft thinks that intellectually that one configuration is enough.....who do we want deciding right and wrong in these cases, the greedy corporations or courts of law?
Just my $.02
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CCCMTech
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| said by Mortis  :
Who are these RIAA people hacking into your system? Law enforcement? Do they have a warrant to search your system? No, they are hackers, who now seemed legally endorsed to search private property on behalf of businesses.
Also keep in mind this eliminates due process of law and violates the constitution which overrides all newer bills.
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prosecutor
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If the RIAA hacks your server, sue 'em. Get everyone else together and file a class action. The law is on your side, there.
That is a completely different issue from subpoena compliance.
In fact, as part of your lawsuit, the first thing you should do is subpoena RIAA's records regarding their contracts with the persons hacking the system.
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