The RIAA is now planning to launch a "cyberwar" against piracy. Their tactics are to include crashing people's computers, launching DOS attacks and even a virus like program called "silence" that deletes mp3s off of your hard drive. These things are blatantly illegal, but I guess the RIAA is above the law
lol i think vaht the RIAA is doing is BY FAR worse than pirating...
Yargh!!! Oh well, hopefully hackers will wipe them out. i mean, that might be bad and all, but honestly, placing mp3-deleting viruses on mah computer is where i draw the line...
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all i see is their eventual downfall because of what they are doing - or planning - now. i mean, what would happen to them if a majority of consumers flat out refused to buy cds for even a month?
this will piss of ppl who use mp3's legally...i mean who rip their cd's after buying them. The RIAA doesnt have any means to distinguish those ones from the downloaded mp3's.....
Yeah! Good old fashioned lynch-mob! I would lend a hand but there's the slight problem of the atlantic ocean in the way so I'll just watch from here :oP
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Fazukin, you make a good point with the ripping of CDs, most of the time I go out and buy a CD I rip it soon after, I would be uber angry if they got rid of those MP3s, it takes a while to rip CDs.
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What if you have a band and distribute your own mp3s across the net for publicity? They have absoloutly NO right to delete mp3's blindly, doing so in this case could be looked upon in a monopolistic way, keeping the small, independant people down.
I don't think they will do it, they'd get their asses sued off, and even if they get the law passed so they're allowed to they'd be hacked to pieces. (heh heh, unintentional pun)
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What they are doing is making their customers hate them. I'm already boycotting them, and about to start an anti-RIAA site. I only buy indie albums now. Mostly from friends. I'm looking into smaller labels with good reps too. Screw the big names. I don't care if they have a few songs I like out. There is too much undeground stuff to be bothered with it.
What pisses me off is that I have a lot of indie music that I downloaded. I this law gets passed, and one song looks like a copy-righted work, I can get all my legitamently downloaded music deleted.
I've been thinking about formating a drive to ntfs with only read permissions for most users. That was before I read this. Now I got another reason to consider it. It's a step up in protection for those of us thinking about read-only protecting our files.
Btw, who is to say this virus couldn't go mutate (or get hacked) and delete other files?
seriously, i think that they'll loose money in the long run if they try and hack people's comps...mostly 'cause everyone will boycott them. not to mention all the damage that it would do to the big bands who are with the riaa at this point...
I say if the RIAA(Retards In Assholes Anonymous) wants to make money they just start selling cable modems, and service. They could offer a free music service to their cable subscribers, and charge a fee to others. By the way the RIAA should make their service better and cheeper than others. Hey, this way you know you have the best service because you won't recive viruses from a multibilion dollar industry, and your friends who didn't want to give the FUCKING GREEDY RIAA money (Who Blames Them) will.
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let them hack me, me and my piracy will go down in glorious flames, taking them along with me. *bwahahahaha* may death be among them... im still awaiting the reincarnation of AG with new servers across the globe. -I Am A Knight Of NI-
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I declare all out war against the record industry and any person that dare make money of such arrogant and insanly illegal attacks. I will no longer purchase any CD, and will do as much as I can to make sure no one else has to either. Fuck the RIAA, fuck em all.
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Yeah lets get everyone to boycott CDs from any company that has anything to do with the RIAA and it's actions. Indie labels are fine, but anyone that shows the slightest bit of cheek to us people who keep them in business, should be forced out of it. Yes Madonna, that goes for you too.
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*pulls out digital AK-47* Ok, so who am I with on this RIAA killin action? My social studies (uber-pro american guy) was talking about what they are doing, so I naturaly commented on it (truly illegal, should not even be done and do not buy from the suits, the artest get no money anyways) and he basicly said * Power to the People! STFU N00b, EAT DIRT* well not the n00b part. This just pisses me off beyond anything else they have done. Fuck off RIAA, you are dieing b/ you own shitty artest that only make 1 song worth hearing, and that is being played endlessly on the "top 40" stations.
*pulls out digital AK-47* Ok, so who am I with on this RIAA killin action? My social studies (uber-pro american guy) was talking about what they are doing, so I naturaly commented on it (truly illegal, should not even be done and do not buy from the suits, the artest get no money anyways) and he basicly said * Power to the People! STFU N00b, EAT DIRT* well not the n00b part. This just pisses me off beyond anything else they have done. Fuck off RIAA, you are dieing b/ you own shitty artest that only make 1 song worth hearing, and that is being played endlessly on the "top 40" stations.
Go to DMusic or Garageband.com. Download their independant label music. For free. Keep it. For free. If all of you really hate these 'one good track' bands that the majors keep pushing on you... don't listen to them. At all.
Give the RIAA what they want. Quit listening to MP3's of their artists.
In fact, fuck their artists altogether.
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I can try uses a mig-welding torch in a computer, so someone breaks in, I can run to the servers, open em mig the mobo to the side of the case and melt the Hard-Drives than we can run! who is with me!
Making your files read only is pointless. File attributes are as easy to change. If a hacker can create a virus that deletes files, why would he be worried about some silly file attribute? If you're worried about viruses, put Symantec or Norton on your computer, and keep it current with updates. Because hard drives crash, back-up all your critical files on CDROM. (This will also protect against viruses that somehow get through your virus protection.)
The RIAA believes that they are above the law. Or, they at least believe they can make terrorist threats. This is a violation of federal law. If I publicly announced that I was going to write a virus that would delete files, and then threatened to spread this virus into the internet, I would have federal agents at my door in short order. Why has RIAA Director of Antipiracy Brad Buckles, not been handcuffed and shuffled off to Guantanamo Bay, to join his terrorist brothers from the mid-east in a naked human pyramid?
