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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

The whole intellectual property issue aside, the one thing I find most
alarming about this is that they are trying to get permission to delete
files from individuals' hard drives!!! What is on my hard drive is my
business and I will be very pissed if some corporate narc goes snooping
around in it. In what way would this be different from an illegal search
and seizure? What if I decided that I wanted to name a file that was not
a music file 'coolsong.mp3' (replace 'coolsong' with the name of any
song carried by any of those labels) just to be eccentric, and they
tried to delete it? What assurances would I have that they would only be
looking for and deleting music files and not looking at, cataloging,
deleting, other private information of mine on my computer? Who the hell
do these bastards think they are? I thought the Stasi died with the fall
of the Berlin Wall!

- Bill

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Bill Geschwind
Technical Assistance Manager
Department of Technology and Systems Support 
Division of Student Affairs, University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
03 Teague Hall, CB# 5510 (919) 962-5629
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 geschwin AT email.unc.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael S Czeiszperger [mailto:czei AT webperformanceinc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:59 PM
To: InterNetWorkers
Subject: [internetworkers] RIAA to target individual internet users

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This whole trend is really scary. The RIAA is simultaneously planning a 
campaign of lawsuits against individuals, while working through their
lackeys 
in Congress to allow them to erase files from individuals hard drives.

The justification for the lawsuit compaign is outrageous-- a mere 5%
drop in 
sales in the middle of a recession.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/775684.asp

"Suits against individual Internet users - particularly if the
defendants 
aren't seeking to create profitable operations based on their online
music 
activities - could cause a backlash from some of the record industry's
own 
fans and biggest customers. But many music executives, watching revenue
sag 
as home compact-disc copying has soared, feel that they have little
choice if 
they are to save their business. World-wide music sales dropped 5% last 
year..."

I don't want to give the impression that I'm for the wholesale stealing
of 
intellectual property; I'm not. The problem here is there's a huge
potential 
for online music, and the industry is doing everything it can to stop
all 
advances, both legal and illegal, while offering up no alternatives of
their 
own.

- -- 
Michael Winslow Czeiszperger
czei at webperformanceinc d o t c o m


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