P2P News: The RIAA: More Bark than Bite

Lokie · 16-April-05, 10:04 AM

Demonstrating once again that much of the music industry's threats against P2P users are often more bark than bite

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	Emory University announced that eight of the nine lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against file-sharing Emory students have been dismissed. Although the reasons for the lawsuit dismissals are still unknown, the fact that such a large percentage of the lawsuits against students in this institution were unsuccessful takes much of the wind out of the RIAA's over-hyped boasts that file sharers named in these suits don't stand much of a chance. Of the approximately ten thousand lawsuits that the RIAA has filed since June 2003 against US file sharers - nearly all against Kazaa/FastTrack users who enabled browsing of their shared file lists - only a very small percentage of these suits has ever resulted in any kind of 'settlement'. Many of these announced lawsuits get dropped for a variety of reasons, perhaps the most common being that the internet service provider no longer has IP logs available dating back to the time of the alleged violation, so the actual P2P user remains forever unknown.

Monsignor Funkibut · 16-April-05, 04:57 PM

allow me to explain.

Emory has a law school - biggest one in the South and the kids who go there pay an ungodly tuition.

Most of their daddies and momies are lawyers. Thats how they afford said ungodly tuition.

The LAST thing the RIAA wants is somebody with the funds and legal resources to fight them in any court of law where it is possible they might lose. Even if the lose is reversed on appeal, people will still think "RIAA loses in court - I'm gonna download."

RIAA wants folks that will roll over and settle. And the Emory kids won't.

-MF

Fatsobob · 16-April-05, 05:03 PM

I hope the riaa gets pwned like the dirty noobs they are.
I cannot stand the riaa, just a waste of time.

My list---- (no i will not tell you my list of what, its just the list)
1. RIAA
2. MPAA
3. A kid who sits at my lunchtable, i hate that bastard.
4..............the list goes on.
you just get the first 3.

16-April-05, 04:57 PM		#2 (permalink)
Monsignor Funkibut Master VB Pr'hoe'grammer	Being from Atlanta... allow me to explain. Emory has a law school - biggest one in the South and the kids who go there pay an ungodly tuition. Most of their daddies and momies are lawyers. Thats how they afford said ungodly tuition. The LAST thing the RIAA wants is somebody with the funds and legal resources to fight them in any court of law where it is possible they might lose. Even if the lose is reversed on appeal, people will still think "RIAA loses in court - I'm gonna download." RIAA wants folks that will roll over and settle. And the Emory kids won't. -MF

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16-April-05, 05:03 PM		#3 (permalink)
Fatsobob Apex's Squirrel Revolutionary	I hope the riaa gets pwned like the dirty noobs they are. I cannot stand the riaa, just a waste of time. My list---- (no i will not tell you my list of what, its just the list) 1. RIAA 2. MPAA 3. A kid who sits at my lunchtable, i hate that bastard. 4..............the list goes on. you just get the first 3.