[rumori] Re: pho: CRIA cracking down


From: Don Joyce (djATwebbnet.com)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 21:13:45 PDT


Matt,
Are you off shore yet? Now don't you wish? Watch out for those mounted
police, they're not the "nice guys' they're made out to be. So what, now
you're supposed to get rid of all Canadian music only? You know, during the
cold war we kept a command center B-52 in the air AT ALL TIMES which could
direct our ICBMs if the landscape was destroyed. But this would probably be
no cheaper than moving off shore, actually. Obviously, no cogent philosophy
works on these copyrighted bastards and the damn business community is
determined to remove all free exchange and yoke every last iota of our
cultural output under their "pay or screw you" rules. No crack where
libertarian culture can grow shall remain unplastered. Capitalism is sad.
There is the increasingly plausible hope that we, their customers, will
increasingly see them as their own worst enemy, and they are certainly
doing everything in their power these days to make that public perception
come true, we'll see.

Fight this takeover in every way you can. Resist by dragging you feet in
every way possible. Become a thorn in their paperwork. Give this
bureaucracy a taste of their own point-oblivious tactics. Don't give up
your vision without making them and everyone else well aware of it. Go for
publicity in any way you can think of. If we ever get copyright's mits and
philosophy readjusted for Internet content, it will come after significant
and extensive RESISTANCE to it as it is. You are the next pawn in this trek
towards that end game...
DJ
Negativland

> I just got this email from my ISP along with a phone call.
>Fortunately they're cool with us running an OpenNap server till CRIA gets
>a formal court order to shut us down. Nothing like a little drama to
>start my weekend off. Matt. -----Original Message-----
>Subject: Please respond
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> TIME \AT "MMMM d, yyyy" July 5, 2001 VIA E-MAIL: [ispemail] MERGEFIELD
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>Dear Sir/Madam:
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>The Canadian Recording Industry Association ("CRIA") represents all of
>the major record companies and leading independent labels in Canada. In
>all, the CRIA members represent in excess of 90% of all sound recordings
>manufactured, distributed and sold in the Canadian market. CRIA is the
>national group of the International Federation of the Phonographic
>Industry ("IFPI"), an International trade association representing the
>recording industry, with more than 1,400 independent and multinational
>record company members and 45 National groups.
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>CRIA is writing to inform you that a 'Napster-like' service providing
>peer-to-peer links and allowing the widespread transmission and
>reproduction of copyrighted music files is being hosted or otherwise made
>available on your Internet service at the IP address 209.162.224.73.
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>The Napster-like service hosted or otherwise made available on your
>Internet service indexes, allows searches of, and makes accessible many
>links to music files residing in the file libraries of users connected to
>this system. This promotes and assists large-scale Internet transmission
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>copying of music files between users.
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>This system, which was investigated on 03/07/01 at 4:24:00 PM GMT, offers
>extensive directories of downloadable digitally encoded files containing
>copyrighted sound recordings. At the time of CRIA's investigation,
>approximately 252 users were, via this Napster-like service listed at
>the IP address above, making available on the Internet, uploading and
>downloading approximately 95262 files containing recorded music.
>According to our investigation, it appears that the vast majority of
>these sound recordings are owned by our member companies. This activity
>is not authorized by the copyright owners or their agents and is contrary
>to the law.
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>The system provided at the IP address listed above is almost identical to
>the system of Napster Inc. You may be aware that the United States
>Circuit Court for Ninth Circuit recently found that the Napster service
>knowingly encourages and assists widespread copyright infringement and,
>in doing so, directly affects the legitimate market for copyrighted
>works. The trial court has issued preliminary injunction against Napster.
>You may obtain a copy of the Ninth Circuit decision at
>http://www.riaa.com/pdf/napsterdecision.pdf.
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>On the basis of the Napster decision, Internet service providers in the
>US have voluntarily been blocking access to similar Napster-like
>services, upon receipt of a notice like this one from the US recording
>industry association. Blocking access to Napster-like services not only
>reduces the service provider's exposure to liability, but also helps them
>secure compliance with their own terms of service with their customers.
>Many service providers' terms of service specifically prohibit users from
>operating a server such as those required for Napster-like services, in
>order to avoid the bandwidth and speed problems that high-volume sites
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>We therefore request that you immediately remove or block access to the
>infringing material offered via this server, which can be accomplished
>most effectively by blocking access to 209.162.224.73. We also ask that
>you inform the server operator that you have blocked access to his/her
>server by reason of the copyright infringement that it is facilitating,
>and confirm to CRIA that this activity has ceased.
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>You may contact me at CRIA Internet Anti-Piracy, 890 Yonge Street, Suite
>1200, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3P4, or e-mail antipiracyATcria.ca, to discuss
>any aspects of this notice or the service in question. We look forward
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>CRIA Internet Piracy Investigator
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>This e-mail (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the
>intended recipient and may contain confidential information, which may be
>protected by duties of confidentiality. If you are not the intended
>recipient of this e-mail, please immediately notify us by return e-mail
>or by telephone (collect if necessary), delete this e-mail and destroy
>any copies. Thank you.

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