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["David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>]

they can't do any of this legally. it goes against the Digital Millenium 
Copyright Act (DMCA). but, since they paid to install the DMCA in the first 
place, i'm sure they will just write another big check and suddenly this will 
be legal. for them. and them alone. 

you will still be a criminal if you crack their servers, however. 
dave ;)
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On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Bill Geschwind wrote:

> 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
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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