Riaa Opens Detention Facility For File Sharers

[N£MO]

Originally posted by REALITY+17 September 2003 - 09:25--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (REALITY &#064; 17 September 2003 - 09:25)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by N£MO@17 September 2003 - 09:24

Originally posted by REALITY@17 September 2003 - 09:05
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@17 September 2003 - 08:53
Very funny site actually, quite amusing indeed.

Whats Your Point...

Very funny shit,pity you poor americans.

Yes, were really fucked now...[/b][/quote]
Whats with the scaremongering??

[RealitY]

Originally posted by N£MO+17 September 2003 - 09:28--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (N£MO @ 17 September 2003 - 09:28)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by REALITY@17 September 2003 - 09:25

Originally posted by N£MO@17 September 2003 - 09:24

Originally posted by REALITY@17 September 2003 - 09:05
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@17 September 2003 - 08:53
Very funny site actually, quite amusing indeed.

Whats Your Point...

Very funny shit,pity you poor americans.

Yes, were really fucked now...

Whats with the scaremongering?? [/b][/quote]
This is really the fuck all to us twits in the US...
What are we to do now...

[toddiscool]

Originally posted by N£MO@17 September 2003 - 03:28
Whats with the scaremongering??

Just came to say same thing, I mean this all good for a laugh for us, but think of the poor noob that comes on here and reads this. Then formats his computer and drills a hole in the dardrive and throws it in a lake.

And do not tell me that they wont do it, I hear about it all day long.

[RealitY]

Originally posted by toddiscool@17 September 2003 - 09:39
think of the poor noob that comes on here and reads this. Then formats his computer and drills a hole in the dardrive and throws it in a lake.

Would a poor nOOb (haven&#39;t heard those two words together on this forum, sounds very sympathetic and compasionate, as if you wish to coddle them) really do such a thing...

[Illuminati]

All I can say is this...

First the Italian Job&#39;s remade, now it looks like The Great Escape is gonna be the same soon

[toddiscool]

Man you would not believe the amount of calls I get everday to set up peoples connections again after they have formatted because of this.
Here I am stuck in the middle wanting to tell them not to worry about it so much, but not in the mood to go job hunting - the filesharer in me usually wins out though, lukily one of those calls has not been listened to yet

Edit: I am not a cuddler

[Illuminati]

Originally posted by REALITY+17 September 2003 - 09:44--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (REALITY @ 17 September 2003 - 09:44)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-toddiscool@17 September 2003 - 09:39
think of the poor noob that comes on here and reads this. Then formats his computer and drills a hole in the dardrive and throws it in a lake.

Would a poor nOOb (haven&#39;t heard those two words together on this forum, sounds very sympathetic and compasionate, as if you wish to coddle them) really do such a thing... [/b][/quote]
You mean, you&#39;re not supposed to shoot them?

Maybe that&#39;s what I&#39;ve been doing wrong

[RealitY]

Ok, now that this is on page 2 and I can&#39;t fucking stop laughing...


Shit I almost crapped myself...

Funniest response however...

but think of the poor noob that comes on here and reads this. Then formats his computer and drills a hole in the dardrive and throws it in a lake.

I would&#39;ve thought people were a little more educated than that...
I did not think ANYONE would take this seriously...
Although who am I kidding.

[I'm_going_slightly_mad]

Originally posted by REALITY@17 September 2003 - 01:55
http://www.denounce.com/riaa.html

RIAA OPENS DETENTION FACILITY FOR SUSPECTED FILE SHARERS
Huge Compound Can Handle 3 Million File Sharing Suspects and Their Supporters

Mojave, CA /DenounceNewswire/ -- 25 July 2003 -- Citing lackluster results in its aggressive Subpoena-the-Family campaign, The Recording Industry Assocation of America, or RIAA, announced today it was escalating the war against music file sharing even higher by opening its massive detention facility in the high desert of Movaje, CA. The facility, designed to indefinitely detain up to three million people suspected of illegally or even legally sharing music files on the Internet, consumes 4,000 acres of the desert region some 70 miles north of Los Angeles.

"Our goal is to eliminate the threat these thieves represent to our industry," said RIAA President Cary Sherman. "We don&#39;t care if the person is eight, eighteen, or eighty or unaware of the law. If we catch &#39;em sharing files, we&#39;re sending them to jail. Not just any jail. Our jail. We don&#39;t even care if they&#39;re legally sharing their own personal music files with a family member. We don&#39;t care if they&#39;re simply transferring their own peronal music from their desktop machine to their iPod. If we catch &#39;em doing it, we&#39;ll be there to take them away. But let me be perfectly clear: even if we don&#39;t catch &#39;em doing it, we&#39;ll be there to take them away if we so much as suspect they&#39;re sharing files, or might like to one day."

Human rights advocates and the ACLU are criticizing both the RIAA for opening the facilily and the Justice Department for not stepping in to stop the RIAA from proceeding. "What the RIAA is doing is patently unconstitutional," said Anthony Romero, ACLU&#39;s Executive Director. "We will not stop until these people are freed and this facility is shut down forever."

"Try anything and we&#39;ll lock you up as well," countered Sherman, when asked about the threats of lawsuits from the ACLU. "We mean business. Anyone trying to free our detainees will be considered criminals as well, and will be sent to the facility with no plans for release."

Asked how the RIAA was able to afford to provide food, clothing, and medical care for up to three million detainees, he told reporters: "We can&#39;t. But hey, they knew the risks. We assume these criminals bring their own food, clothing, and medicine with them. They&#39;re on their own."

Children, parents, and the elderly are not the only ones being rounded up for incarceration at the facility. Several well-known industry figures are already being detained as well, including Ann Winblad, co-founder of a venture capital firm which invested heavily in Napster; Larry Lessig, a Stanford Law professor who was captured by RIAA stormtroopers right in the middle of a speech he was giving at a recent O&#39;Reilly technology conference; and Michael Robertson, founder of MP3.com, who is not even active in the digital music world anymore, having gone off to launch a Linux software company. "Robertson we nailed just on general principles," said Sherman.

Ellen Murray, head of Mothers Against the RIAA (MARIAA), was herself captured and brought to the facility. "Murray was a target of opportunity," Sherman said. "Go up against us, go to jail."

Residents of Mojave and the surrounding area are also outraged, citing claims from the RIAA that opening of the facility would mean more jobs and economic activity for the area. So far, that hasn&#39;t happened, town officials argue. "We were sold a bill of goods, and the RIAA has let us down," said one official who refused to be identified for fear of being sent to the facility for criticizing the RIAA.

Asked about the legality, indeed the morality, of this new detention facility and the mass capture of music enthusiasts now underway, Sherman was unapologetic. "These are not nice people," he said. "Several have publicly stated here their intent to copy a music file before they leave Mojave. We will not give them that satisfaction."

LOL&#33; The article almost seems too real&#33; I think if it were legal for the RIAA to detain file sharers, they most certainly would do it&#33; They are certainly greedy b@stards.

Cheers&#33; =]

Suzi

[toddiscool]

I was just thinking of the panic stricken newbie, who comes on here to post the daily "oh my god did you hear that Riaa is suing, what do we do" post.
Sees this post, maybee takes the time to read past the first paragraph, without getting out the power drill and attatching magnets to the sides, and still does not see any recognition of it being a joke freaking out even more.

A noob in this state is gonna read about three words out of that entire article.

compound - 3 million - RIAA

I did however find that article and all the rest on that site quite histaricle(sp?) <- what was the name of that tool that "harry carrey" had in his sig, IEspell was it, i need to get that back.