Joey Seiler on January 22, 2008 4:21 PM
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The RIAA's website was hacked on Sunday. Frankly, I'm just surprised it's been so long since the last rash of attacks--six times in as many months back in 2002. And while the RIAA hasn't issued any lawsuits or pressed charges (yet), it's unlikely an organization with that much lobbying power will stay silent.
So enjoy it while it lasts, hackers. The RIAA may not understand technology, but I'm willing to bet the big, lumbering Tyrannosaurus Rex didn't fully understand what the small creatures running around beneath it were either. It just grabbed them with its teensy, greedy arms and chowed down (not really).
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Joey Seiler on January 2, 2008 3:34 PM
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Jeffrey Howell from Arizona is being sued by Atlantic Records for illegally sharing his digital music, which pretty much accounts to sharing it at all. His particular crime is nothing new: he converted music from his CDs into MP3s and put them in a shared folder for Kazaa to distribute. What's new is that the RIAA is going one step farther than simply saying Howell shouldn't distribute the CDs. In the lobbying organization's brief, they're saying he never should have copied them in the first place. That's right, according to a legal brief filed in the case by the RIAA, any time you put a CD you own into a computer you own and iTunes rips it into MP3 format, you've created "unauthorized" copies.
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