They filed charges against 4 students from 4 different Universities today. This is just the start, they plan on prosecuting thousands and thousands as they ramp up working with local Jurisdictions across the country.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/2312220
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030403/tc_nm/media_music_piracy_dc
http://www.riaa.com/PR_story.cfm?id=629
http://www.eff.org/news/breaking/
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/6428
Edit 4-9-2003: Added boycott-riaa link in depth article of case filed by RIAA and arguments. Basically if the RIAA wins this, The Internet as you knew it would be dead as well as freedom of information since all Text (Words) would be owned and controlled by Commerical Entities such as the RIAA and MPAA. This is not much different from the thread where people in here and another Website said that the simple WORD of my website is considered SPAM itself. This case considers WORDS indexed and published to be as illegal as having the actual files themselves.
Also SonicBlue, manufacturer of ReplayTV has been forced into Bankruptcy by the MPAA/RIAA because of lawsuits filed by the MPAA costing Sonicblue in excess of a million dollars a day in legal fees battling the dozens of lawsuits the MPAA filed against SonicBlue. The main reason the MPAA is sueing is because they say it is illegal to skip Commercials which is what the ReplayTV makes it easy to do.
Will find the story where the President of the Turner Broadcasting said all "Americans are committing a crime when they skip a Commericial, they are breaking a contract for not having to pay to watch their shows but must watch the Commercials in return."
http://www.templetons.com/brad/adskip.html - Ad skipping Illegal article
http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2002-May/001430.html - Hollywood and the broadcast television cartel are going to war against the makers of hard-disk video recorders that allow you to skip past commercials. The head of Turner Broadcasting calls it ``theft'' when you, the viewer, decline to watch the ads he wants you to view.
From: "White, Sam" <Sam.White_at_mail.house.gov>
To: "'declan'" <declan_at_well.com>
Subject: skipping commercials is stealing?
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:43:40 -0400
Hi Declan -
I thought the politech folks would have a barrel of laughs over the comments of Jamie Kellner, the CEO of Turner Broadcasting (a subsidiary of the much-beloved AOL). Apparently, in an interview with CableWorld, Kellner, in
response to a question about why personal video recorders were bad for the
industry, responded:
Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming.
This is from an article in 2600 magazine, found here: http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=1113
The text of the interview can be found here:
http://www.inside.com/product/product.asp?entity=CableWorld&pf_ID=7A2ACA71-FAAD-41FC-A100-0B8A11C30373
Regards,
Sam
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/2312220
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030403/tc_nm/media_music_piracy_dc
http://www.riaa.com/PR_story.cfm?id=629
http://www.eff.org/news/breaking/
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/6428
Edit 4-9-2003: Added boycott-riaa link in depth article of case filed by RIAA and arguments. Basically if the RIAA wins this, The Internet as you knew it would be dead as well as freedom of information since all Text (Words) would be owned and controlled by Commerical Entities such as the RIAA and MPAA. This is not much different from the thread where people in here and another Website said that the simple WORD of my website is considered SPAM itself. This case considers WORDS indexed and published to be as illegal as having the actual files themselves.
Also SonicBlue, manufacturer of ReplayTV has been forced into Bankruptcy by the MPAA/RIAA because of lawsuits filed by the MPAA costing Sonicblue in excess of a million dollars a day in legal fees battling the dozens of lawsuits the MPAA filed against SonicBlue. The main reason the MPAA is sueing is because they say it is illegal to skip Commercials which is what the ReplayTV makes it easy to do.
Will find the story where the President of the Turner Broadcasting said all "Americans are committing a crime when they skip a Commericial, they are breaking a contract for not having to pay to watch their shows but must watch the Commercials in return."
http://www.templetons.com/brad/adskip.html - Ad skipping Illegal article
http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2002-May/001430.html - Hollywood and the broadcast television cartel are going to war against the makers of hard-disk video recorders that allow you to skip past commercials. The head of Turner Broadcasting calls it ``theft'' when you, the viewer, decline to watch the ads he wants you to view.
From: "White, Sam" <Sam.White_at_mail.house.gov>
To: "'declan'" <declan_at_well.com>
Subject: skipping commercials is stealing?
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:43:40 -0400
Hi Declan -
I thought the politech folks would have a barrel of laughs over the comments of Jamie Kellner, the CEO of Turner Broadcasting (a subsidiary of the much-beloved AOL). Apparently, in an interview with CableWorld, Kellner, in
response to a question about why personal video recorders were bad for the
industry, responded:
Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming.
This is from an article in 2600 magazine, found here: http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=1113
The text of the interview can be found here:
http://www.inside.com/product/product.asp?entity=CableWorld&pf_ID=7A2ACA71-FAAD-41FC-A100-0B8A11C30373
Regards,
Sam
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