Yeah and did you here what that sap orin hatch said the other day? What a fucking sap.. One week its hilary next week its cary FUCK THEM JUST IGNORE THE TWATS -- )) (( c[_] bLiP www.justablip.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: orb-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:orb-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Alan Sent: 26 June 2003 04:11 To: fsollist@yage.net; orb@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Orb] RIAA http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33442-2003Jun25.html ... "The public has been educated and re-educated and re-educated again. People now know this is illegal," said Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA. "People can no longer count on just getting a warning." Sherman said the RIAA has not determined what file trading will be challenged legally, but the group plans to go after the biggest offenders first. Still, he said, "even offering one file without permission is one too many." ... The RIAA said it would use the public directories of peer-to-peer software programs and issue subpoenas to Internet service providers to track down people trading music files. The trade group has a precedent in its favor: Verizon Communications Inc. was compelled by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia this month to give the RIAA the names of four customers suspected of illegally distributing music files. ... "I think this really suggests that the recording industry dinosaurs have completely lost touch with reality," said Fred Von Lohmann, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization that lobbies on civil liberties issues related to technology. "Over 57 million Americans are using file-sharing software today. That's more than voted for President Bush." ... In addition to all that I heard the RIAA spokesman on the radio tonight say, "There are enough legitimate sources of music on the web that P2P programs are no longer necessary except for theives" ... well, that's a paraphrase but not by much. www.psychicreform.com Change your mind. "Look at the past 25 years. We went downhill, and if people don't realize it, they don't have their fucking eyes on ... In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available to an average citizen in America right now... God almighty, what have we done to each other?" --Merle Haggard (June, 2002) _______________________________________________ Orb mailing list Orb@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/orb