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Every train needs someone to man the rear-end.
I am that guy. [img]cool.gif[/img]
perhaps you should take that cruise....
let someone else do the caboosing [img]redface.gif[/img]
"Music Industry to Unveil Amnesty Offer
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By TED BRIDIS, AP Technology Writer
WASHINGTON - The recording industry is expected to announce as early as next week an amnesty program for people who admit they illegally share music files across the Internet, promising not to sue them in exchange for their admission and pledge to delete the songs off their computers.
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The offer of amnesty will not apply to the roughly 1,600 people who already have been targets of copyright subpoenas from the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites), which has promised to file hundreds of infringement lawsuits across the country as early as next week.
Sources who described the proposal Thursday spoke on condition of anonymity. A spokeswoman for the RIAA, Amy Weiss, declined to comment.
The RIAA's offer would require Internet users to complete a notarized amnesty form that includes promises to delete any illegally downloaded music and not participate in illegal file-trading in the future. In exchange, the RIAA would agree not to file a potentially expensive infringement lawsuit.
"I'll be curious to see how many opt for this," said Fred von Lohmann, a lawyer for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, who has criticized the RIAA's use of copyright subpoenas. "It will be an interesting measure of how much fear the recording industry has managed to inject into the American public."
Von Lohmann cautioned that the RIAA doesn't represent all copyright owners and therefore couldn't guarantee an Internet user wouldn't be sued for infringement by others, despite what amounts to an admission of guilt.
"It's not the kind of agreement that most people's lawyers will embrace," he said.
But the amnesty offer could serve to soften the RIAA's brass-knuckle image once the earliest lawsuits are filed, giving nervous college students and others an opportunity to avoid similar legal problems if they confess to online copyright infringement. "
To me this says that they basically know they cant do shit to stop illegal downloading. IMO, all they are trying to do is scare people with all this legal mumbo jumho and hope that some of the nimwits that actually sign the waiver stick to it.
when you decide to join a bandwagon... you always
seem to wait for the caboose....
in other words....
<font size=30>DUH!</font>
I will never stop file sharing.
for some reason i saw this thread in a totally dodgy way i could just imagine tg being gay and then being the caboose [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img] [img]confused.gif[/img]
no reason to be afraid to admit that, 4H...
i was laying the implication on pretty thick [img]redface.gif[/img]
i'm curious how this supposed legal action is
being handled outside of the US. surely there
are ramifications for non-US residents that
share US shit... (or whatever falls under the
system).
anyone know?
no idea from these parts
*waves from NZ*
it did make the news tonight ... i missed it however
<font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC, Tahoma">greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat..... [img]graemlins/thumbs_down.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by The 4 Horsemen 11:
it did make the news tonight ...
i wonder if it was about file sharing in general...
or how america is just this big, gluttonous
capitalistic monster that consistantly eats
its own young