Comments on: ISP owner refuses to be music industry’s unpaid dogsbody http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/12/22/isp-owner-refuses-to-be-music-industrys-unpaid-dogsbody/ Technology news Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: DavidB http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/12/22/isp-owner-refuses-to-be-music-industrys-unpaid-dogsbody/comment-page-1/#comment-153410 DavidB Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:38:35 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/12/22/isp-owner-refuses-to-be-music-industrys-unpaid-dogsbody/#comment-153410 And it turns out RIAA was just flat out LYING (surprise!). Dozens of lawsuits have been filed in the past couple weeks despite them saying they stopp months ago! http://techdirt.com/articles/20081221/1519113180.shtml And it turns out RIAA was just flat out LYING (surprise!). Dozens of lawsuits have been filed in the past couple weeks despite them saying they stopp months ago!

http://techdirt.com/articles/20081221/1519113180.shtml

]]> By: DavidB http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/12/22/isp-owner-refuses-to-be-music-industrys-unpaid-dogsbody/comment-page-1/#comment-153303 DavidB Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:14:44 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/12/22/isp-owner-refuses-to-be-music-industrys-unpaid-dogsbody/#comment-153303 I doubt it will be long before the RIAA is told in no uncertain legal terms that it isn't the ISP's responsibility to search out inappropriate activity amongst their users. Just like it isn't the phone company's responsibility to seek out if someone is using a phone on their service to conduct inappropriate activity. What is it about the RIAA and MPAA and etc. that makes them insist on discarding "innocent until proven guilty" and "probable cause"? If they are so all fired sure that so much illegal activity is occurring, seems to me it's up to them to PROVE it. I doubt it will be long before the RIAA is told in no uncertain legal terms that it isn’t the ISP’s responsibility to search out inappropriate activity amongst their users. Just like it isn’t the phone company’s responsibility to seek out if someone is using a phone on their service to conduct inappropriate activity. What is it about the RIAA and MPAA and etc. that makes them insist on discarding “innocent until proven guilty” and “probable cause”? If they are so all fired sure that so much illegal activity is occurring, seems to me it’s up to them to PROVE it.

]]> By: DaveBG http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/12/22/isp-owner-refuses-to-be-music-industrys-unpaid-dogsbody/comment-page-1/#comment-153290 DaveBG Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:15:43 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/12/22/isp-owner-refuses-to-be-music-industrys-unpaid-dogsbody/#comment-153290 If the music and movie business think that everyone is going to wreck the internet just so they can prop up their failing out-of-date business models they can get stuffed. Downloading for personal non-commercial purposes is sharing, not pirating. Most of us already pay & have paid plenty for the same material. Just like we used to be able to tape off of the radio or record from the TV, it's no different - and if the law now says it is then the law has been corrupted and perverted (by the interests of big business and not the people) to a meaning that was never originally intended. Those greedy b@stards can go screw themselves. If the music and movie business think that everyone is going to wreck the internet just so they can prop up their failing out-of-date business models they can get stuffed.

Downloading for personal non-commercial purposes is sharing, not pirating.
Most of us already pay & have paid plenty for the same material.
Just like we used to be able to tape off of the radio or record from the TV, it’s no different – and if the law now says it is then the law has been corrupted and perverted (by the interests of big business and not the people) to a meaning that was never originally intended.

Those greedy b@stards can go screw themselves.

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