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RIAA Is At It Again - Scary Stuff...
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: May 2002
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by the good people at <a href="http://thedigitalbits.com" target="_blank">The Digital Bits</a>:
<strong>Our "friends" at the MPAA and RIAA have officially introduced a bill in U.S. House of Representatives that would dramatically rewrite federal law to permit them to legally hack into peer to peer networks and create nearly unchecked electronic disruptions if a copyright holder has a "reasonable basis" to believe that piracy is occurring. Keep in mind that peer to peer networks are basically made almost entirely of end user computers, so they're asking for legal power to tap into YOUR computers, at their sole discretion, to cause disruptions. Think about that for a minute. Angry yet? You should be. Here's another link on this at <a href="http://politechbot.com/p-03795.html" target="_blank">Politechbot.com</a>. And you can read <a href="http://www.politechbot.com/docs/berman.coble.p2p.final.072502.pdf" target="_blank">the actual bill (in PDF format) here</a>.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Upstate NY (cow country)
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I saw that. What a bunch of paranoid nitwits. We're in a revolution here (or at least an evolution) and all they're doing is fighting it.
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"Destroy your ego. Trust your brain. Destroy your beliefs. Trust your divinity." -Danny Carey
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Professional Poster
Join Date: May 2001
Location: North Dakota, USA
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Agreed, this is scary. I tried to contact my rep in Washington on a couple issues, and I usually get some form letters back when I do so... however, the last time I sent one to him (on the topic of guns in cockpits... I'm not even touching that with a ten foot pole since this is an arts forum  ) , the letter that was sent back to me was worded such that I don't even know if anyone even looked at it to get the side of the fence I was on. They seemed to imply that I was on one side of the fence of the issue, while I was very much on the opposite.
I hope our people in Washington can stop this... there's been some really scary legislation recently...
You'd think the RIAA would have something better to do, or a better way to handle this entire situation aside from royally pissing off every techie person out there.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Pacific Northwest
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Screw the RIAA - I am voting with my pocketbook and never, ever purchasing another music CD. 
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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I hate this arguement, everyone just wants free music / movies.
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