[Rumori] RIAAs Greatest Hit List and Possible License Violation

PeterALopez pl1x at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 31 07:51:14 PDT 2003


http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=207

"The RIAA's witch-hunt has been mostly shrouded in mystery, with many not knowing who or what would bring about a lawsuit. We've sifted through approximately half the users displayed on TechTV.com's website, then examined the songs those individuals were being violated on, using the EFF's database.

It seems the RIAA is targeting a wide reach of music, including Hip Hop, R&B, Rap, Rock, Pop and Country songs. Artists such as Ludacris, Michael Jackson, NAS, Busta Rhymes, Keith Sweat and Musiq were very common throughout the subpoenas. <cut>"

here's the list:
http://www.slyck.com/misc/p2p.xls
or
http://www.aoyd31.dsl.pipex.com/p2p.txt

So if your p2p-jamming, those are the files to rename to...

this article on /. a poster had the following to say:

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/31/0056254.shtml?tid=123&tid=126&tid=158&tid=95&tid=99

RIAA is in violation of kazaa license!
I am baffled as to why i have yet to see this mentioned (maybe I have not looked around enough). 

The only way to be able to say in court that a given user actually was making a certain file available to the public is for the RIAA to have downloaded the file themselves. (unless of course they were sniffing the traffic, but that would be illegal as well) 

If they used kazaa to download from users to find out that they had an "illegal" file they would violate kazaa licence terms [kazaa.com] 

"2 What You Can't Do Under This Licence" sub sections: 
"2.11 Monitor traffic or make search requests in order to accumulate information about individual users;", 
"2.12 "Stalk" or otherwise harass another;" and 
"2.14 Collect or store personal data about other users." 

If they somehow reverse engineered kazaa to make their own client and avoid the above licence stipulations they would have run afoul of: 
"3.2 Except as expressly permitted in this Licence, you agree not to reverse engineer, de-compile, disassemble, alter, duplicate, modify, rent, lease, loan, sublicense, make copies, create derivative works from, distribute or provide others with the Software in whole or part, transmit or communicate the application over a network." 





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