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DRM is CRAP. Read what ZDNET has to say. LINK

Fair use under assault
EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow argues the case against DRM
By Steve Gillmor for InfoWorld

InfoWorld: What is the message that you feel needs to be made about DRM?

Barlow: I think that anybody who cares about the future of technology --
anybody who cares about the future, period -- ought to be awfully
concerned about this. But people who work in technology have been
agnostic on the subject so far. They need to recognize that they're
going to be faced with a fairly stark choice, which is a gradual
concentration around certain trusted platforms that cannot be broken
out of and are filled with black boxes that you can't code around and
can't see the inside of.

You have to get politically active and stop it from happening, because
Congress has been bought by the content industry. The choice is being
made at a very complex and subterranean political level. It's being
done in standard settings, with the FCC, in amendments to obscure bills
in Congress, in the closed door sessions to set the Digital Broadcast
Standard. It has very significant long-term effects [for] the technical
architecture of cyberspace, because what we're talking about embedding
into everything is a control and surveillance mechanism for the purpose
of observing copyright piracy, but [it] can be used for anything...


*Much more at the link*

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RIAA has changed strategy. No longer will they attract the wrath of the public by sueing 800 people at once. They have decided to spread it out over the month. Same slime. Just different trick.

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1237

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This way also 12 year old won't know which day of the week the certified letter will show at their house

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Celebration time. Not many victories so we better enjoy this one.

LINK

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Another victory.

Link

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Just when you think that the RIAA cannot look worse, this story appears. Please tell me that this is a fake story. No one could be this stupid or cruel.

On second thought, it is the RIAA.

LINK

And

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Just when you think that the RIAA cannot look worse, this story appears. Please tell me that this is a fake story. No one could be this stupid or cruel.

On second thought, it is the RIAA.

LINK

And

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Great finds efc.All of their efforts to maximize profits by sueing everybody is the lazy fat wealthy man's way.Those same people they are sueing could be buying the copyrighted songs if the price was right.A well packaged famous artist's latest cd would sell well @ $5.Sell more,make more,keep people employed,heck I'd buy several for myself and give more birthday presents,Christmas presents,buy an extra for a friend etc.But alas,I can't make those f***ing decisions.

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Thanks to /. and deffectivebydesign.org and archive.org. The recording was made in July yet this is the first most of us have heard of it. It is a dire warning that RIAA is attempting to rewrite the copyright law in a way that will hurt every consumer of music.

http://www.archive.org/download/Defe...erman_64kb.m3u

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I can't tell you how much I despise this organization. I have not bought a CD in more than two years. I may never buy another. Not one red cent from me to the RIAA.

Why am I so worked up? Link

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Time is running out. People have continued to buy music CDs, so the RIAA has had little reason to stop the use of DMA. LINK

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Mother of ten year old sued by RIAA. She is fighting back.

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blo...back-sues.html

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I find this to be a compelling read about the many missteps of the RIAA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/op...pagewanted=all

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The Democratic party has appointed The Director of Communications for the RIAA as Deputy CEO for Public Affairs. This is a job that she must be totally qualified for. After all, the RIAA is known for its public relations.

From the press release:
Jenni Engebretsen, Deputy CEO for Public Affairs
Jenni R. Engebretsen is currently the Director of Communications for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Washington, DC-based trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Before joining the RIAA, Engebretsen spent eight years working in Democratic politics, most recently as a Regional Communications Director for the Kerry-Edwards for President campaign, where she was responsible for developing campaign communications strategy for top-targeted states including Florida and New Hampshire. During the 2004 presidential cycle, she also served as Deputy Communications Director for the Democratic National Convention in Boston and as Press Secretary for the Edwards for President campaign during the primaries. Before that, she worked on Capitol Hill in the communications offices of Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and in the White House press office during the Clinton Administration. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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As posted to slashdot.org this date. Some information came from recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com. The RIAA has dismissed its case against the handicapped mother, Tonya Anderson. The dismissal relates to Tonya Anderson only. It does not relate to her counterclaim or her claim for attorneys fees.

Hope she prevails on those also. In my opinion, is a woman that has been unjustly hounded for the past two years.