I am no fan of RIAA nor MPAA. Thanks to RIAA, I have stopped buying music about 5 years ago. Just my principal. I have never downloaded nor shared a song. More over I do not even lend CD's or DVD's I have. Not because of the love to anyone but because I want to keep playable unscratched of my collection. I think my CD collection, before I stopped buying, amounts to about 300 CD's. I also buy DVD's of Movies I like and Love. (I have stopped that now awaiting my decision on HD DVD or Bluray I might be buying both as, I have looked at dual versions of HD players.) but here is a tip, wait a month or two, you can get a DVD for prices ranging from $4:50-9:00) which is the range I pay for movies.
What RIAA helped me to in music is to appreciate Classical music. I have learned to listened to classical music more than before and I will set off in finding Non-RIAA music. Perhaps it is time to make a list of music publishers that are non-RIAA. So that people can prove that they still like to buy music but not give into the heavy handedness of likes of RIAA.
I do not condone illegal downloading of music, nor the half truths that I hear RIAA presenting to courts and uneducated Juries.
Jamie Thomas may or may not have broken laws but charging $220000 for 24 songs is a crime. The Judge must be a moron too (in my eyes) to allow such things to pass through. These type of heavy handedness further makes it to worth while to look for those independent publishers. As people get educated, even morons can learn if facts were presented properly.
Jamie Thomas has said that she is appealing the jury decision and have setup a website and has a youtube video, her intension is to get donations if that is what you think that you should do. She also posts information on her myspace page.
Monday, October 08, 2007
Jamie Thomas appeals RIAA (Capital Records v Jammie Thomas) decision,
Monday, September 17, 2007
MIIVI is VIIDE and looks like wide open too!
MIIVI is VIIDE, while ago I wrote about Mediadefender using a site called Miivi to attract potential movie or music down loaders. They appeared to have change the name to viide but now it seems that mediadefender has become wide open instead! The same source TorrentFreak (Dugg) and ARS Technica (Slashdotted) reports about juicy details about the company.
Ironaically the leaked information was dilivered/distributed via bittorrent!, and everybody is going through personal details, contracts and contacts.
Before I could finish the article TF again posted about anothe leak, MediaDefender Phone Call and Gnutella Tracking Database Leaked
Well All those labels and movie companies that hired mediadefender to defend their products must be wondering about defense they got, from a company that even could not protect it self, even after a giant information leak!
The group supposed to be responsible for this havok, is Mediadefender defenders
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Anti Piracy gang traps users with a fake movie site
From torrentfreak.com
Is not it against the law to entice and trap people? Anyway read the complete article by following the link at the end of the post.
Media Defender, a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA, RIAA and several independent media production companies, just launched their very own video upload service called “miivi.com”. The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so.
Media Defender is known for their shady tactics. Besides launching video upload services, they also trap people into downloading fake torrents so they can collect IP addresses, and send copyright infringement letters to ISPs.
Fortunately, most of the IPs of these fake BitTorrent trackers are already blocked by blocklist software like PeerGuardian. However, they still manage to collect the IP addresses of thousands of users who do fall for this trap.
