RIAA attacking our culture, the American Mind

Dom · May 5, 2003, 02:37 AM

The RIAA's president Cary Sherman is lamenting that there's a lack of civility in the debate over sharing the music we love. He's complaining that people object to his effort to plant bombs in your computer. He says such people are irrational.

The New York Times reveals the record companies are preparing a program called "silent", which "Locks up a computer system for a certain duration - minutes or possibly even hours - risking the loss of data that was unsaved if the computer is restarted," the Times tells us. "It also displays a warning about downloading pirated music."

This latest bombing campaign follows the RIAA's attempt in October to get bombing prohibited from limited damages: a daring and unusual move for a bomber. Bombers usually light a fuse and then run away, or fly away at a very high altitude, but this bomber wants to return to the scene of the crime and deny the victims their right to get recompense for the destruction. That was the Berman Bill.

One other program can only be described as a kind of psychological "All Your Base" campaign, only for real. It deletes all the MP3s it can find on your computer so you have to buy the music again in DRM'd form. And then your music will truly belong to them, because once the DRM noose is around your neck, they only need to tighten it.

Sherman complains that when the Berman Bomb Act was introduced "you couldn't get a rational dialogue going."

We think he's been lucky.

Cultural Identity
The extent of this assault on our valuable culture, when combined with the the labels refusal to release its back catalogs, including works of great artistic merit, is huge.

Look at what just one Register reader will be losing. "My great grandfather was born in 1870," he writes:.

"He learned to build crystal radio sets to listen to the earliest radio broadcasts in the 1920's. He would invite the whole town of about 500 over to listen to them.

"My grandfather was born in 1899. He purchased one of the earliest tape recorders to make copies of radio broadcasts for his friends in the late 1950s.

"My dad was born in 1924. He had a collection of 78's that he passed around for many years until he died last year.

"And now I am using the Internet to assemble an MP3 collection of all the tunes on all those LPs, cassette tapes and CD's that I've been buying since 1959.

"I'll be damned in hell before I accept the notion that I and my ancestors who love to listen to the audio arts are in any sense guilty of anything that is illegal, wrong, evil, immoral or improper."

Can you imagine the value of that heritage? Then multiply it. The RIAA is attacking the American mind, and controlling its finest cultural exports oversees.

Imagine the loss if your library agreed only to keep a couple of hundred books which were then only obtainable through a fee. Or if it burned down?

Well, when the RIAA has finished with its good work here, it will be free to do the same thing, only more aggressively, abroad.

Hilary's Rosen involvement in rewriting Iraqi's more liberal copyright law [confirmed] will pave the way for her members to control the distribution of Iraqi culture. Before too long, the new malls of Iraq will have hypermarkets bulging with what small parts of homegrown culture the record labels sees fit to offer, plus a few claypit McJob boybands groomed for success, with just perhaps a token Sunni or Kurdish artiste thrown in to demonstrate diversity, only, "I think there's one in the backroom but I have to go and get it", is the reply you'll hear when you go and ask for it in the Baghdad hypermarket, when you ask for the latter."Er, owing to market forces we can't bring you the music you were listening to yesterday."

(Remarkably, India and France have remained in control of their visuals, despite similar pressures. Almost everyone else is losing their audio, however).

In parts of the world where sharing music isn't as frowned upon as here, the people generally look pretty happy, I'd say. And so you might conclude that file sharing music encourages happiness. In these parts of the world people party more, or party harder, or both, and the free flow of their culture is demanded.

Why is this 'irrational', Bomber Sherman?

The RIAA's assault on our cultural identity - this includes refusing to open the catalogs, as well as bombing or financially crippling computer-using music lovers - is so deep that it's only a surprise that someone hasn't bombed them back at ... (We'd give you the address here, but the RIAA's website has just gone down again, and so it appears that Phase I has been resumed.)

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BONEHEAD · May 5, 2003, 03:29 AM

I have half a mind to take my 500+ cd's and convert them to Mp3's and get on edonkey & kazza.

Gun5 · May 5, 2003, 05:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BONEHEAD
I have half a mind to take my 500+ cd's and convert them to Mp3's and get on edonkey & kazza.

go! go! go!

ToshiroOC · May 5, 2003, 10:42 AM

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One other program can only be described as a kind of psychological "All Your Base" campaign, only for real. It deletes all the MP3s it can find on your computer so you have to buy the music again in DRM'd form. And then your music will truly belong to them, because once the DRM noose is around your neck, they only need to tighten it.

The New York Times reveals the record companies are preparing a program called "silent", which "Locks up a computer system for a certain duration - minutes or possibly even hours - risking the loss of data that was unsaved if the computer is restarted," the Times tells us. "It also displays a warning about downloading pirated music."

If I ever see strong verification of this and these measures aren't immediately declared illegal, I will donate my life's savings to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and try my best to stop this... this is a greater violation of my personal property than I ever thought would be even remotely permissible by the worst corporations in this world.

No_Style · May 5, 2003, 01:59 PM

Fiesty indeed. IF this goes through, RIAA is worse than spyware. I cannot believe how a "virus" of this type would be made legal. RIAA is making Microsoft's Windows monopolizing look like mere vandalism.

StuRReaL · May 5, 2003, 02:31 PM

This sort of behavior is illegal, creating a program with those kind of abilities are VIRUSES, this must be stopped its redicuals, sending someone a virus is MORE ILLEGAL then than sharing copyrighted material. lets hope someone develops and antidote to this. Maybe we should just back at them and not buy music EVER, because music sharing actually increases CD sales!!!!

Rayder · May 6, 2003, 08:37 PM

If this crap actually becomes a reality, then my broadband ISP will become useless to me and will get cancelled. I will go back to some little $10 56k modem service just for E-mail and system updates. At least then I will know when I'm really online or not.

This is why I'm looking for a little BBS program like the Commodore 64 days, so I can trade files WITHOUT some bastardly internet watcher breathing down my back and feeding me viruses!

Here's one idea they couldn't defeat, stick your MP3's on a RAID port and shut it off in BIOS when your not using it.

MWAHAHAHAHA!!! They'll never see it then, the bastards!

Lock · May 12, 2003, 09:33 PM

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May 5, 2003, 02:37 AM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	RIAA attacking our culture, the American Mind The RIAA's president Cary Sherman is lamenting that there's a lack of civility in the debate over sharing the music we love. He's complaining that people object to his effort to plant bombs in your computer. He says such people are irrational. The New York Times reveals the record companies are preparing a program called "silent", which "Locks up a computer system for a certain duration - minutes or possibly even hours - risking the loss of data that was unsaved if the computer is restarted," the Times tells us. "It also displays a warning about downloading pirated music." This latest bombing campaign follows the RIAA's attempt in October to get bombing prohibited from limited damages: a daring and unusual move for a bomber. Bombers usually light a fuse and then run away, or fly away at a very high altitude, but this bomber wants to return to the scene of the crime and deny the victims their right to get recompense for the destruction. That was the Berman Bill. One other program can only be described as a kind of psychological "All Your Base" campaign, only for real. It deletes all the MP3s it can find on your computer so you have to buy the music again in DRM'd form. And then your music will truly belong to them, because once the DRM noose is around your neck, they only need to tighten it. Sherman complains that when the Berman Bomb Act was introduced "you couldn't get a rational dialogue going." We think he's been lucky. Cultural Identity The extent of this assault on our valuable culture, when combined with the the labels refusal to release its back catalogs, including works of great artistic merit, is huge. Look at what just one Register reader will be losing. "My great grandfather was born in 1870," he writes:. "He learned to build crystal radio sets to listen to the earliest radio broadcasts in the 1920's. He would invite the whole town of about 500 over to listen to them. "My grandfather was born in 1899. He purchased one of the earliest tape recorders to make copies of radio broadcasts for his friends in the late 1950s. "My dad was born in 1924. He had a collection of 78's that he passed around for many years until he died last year. "And now I am using the Internet to assemble an MP3 collection of all the tunes on all those LPs, cassette tapes and CD's that I've been buying since 1959. "I'll be damned in hell before I accept the notion that I and my ancestors who love to listen to the audio arts are in any sense guilty of anything that is illegal, wrong, evil, immoral or improper." Can you imagine the value of that heritage? Then multiply it. The RIAA is attacking the American mind, and controlling its finest cultural exports oversees. Imagine the loss if your library agreed only to keep a couple of hundred books which were then only obtainable through a fee. Or if it burned down? Well, when the RIAA has finished with its good work here, it will be free to do the same thing, only more aggressively, abroad. Hilary's Rosen involvement in rewriting Iraqi's more liberal copyright law [confirmed] will pave the way for her members to control the distribution of Iraqi culture. Before too long, the new malls of Iraq will have hypermarkets bulging with what small parts of homegrown culture the record labels sees fit to offer, plus a few claypit McJob boybands groomed for success, with just perhaps a token Sunni or Kurdish artiste thrown in to demonstrate diversity, only, "I think there's one in the backroom but I have to go and get it", is the reply you'll hear when you go and ask for it in the Baghdad hypermarket, when you ask for the latter."Er, owing to market forces we can't bring you the music you were listening to yesterday." (Remarkably, India and France have remained in control of their visuals, despite similar pressures. Almost everyone else is losing their audio, however). In parts of the world where sharing music isn't as frowned upon as here, the people generally look pretty happy, I'd say. And so you might conclude that file sharing music encourages happiness. In these parts of the world people party more, or party harder, or both, and the free flow of their culture is demanded. Why is this 'irrational', Bomber Sherman? The RIAA's assault on our cultural identity - this includes refusing to open the catalogs, as well as bombing or financially crippling computer-using music lovers - is so deep that it's only a surprise that someone hasn't bombed them back at ... (We'd give you the address here, but the RIAA's website has just gone down again, and so it appears that Phase I has been resumed.) ---------------------------------- News source: TheRegister

May 5, 2003, 03:29 AM	#2
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May 5, 2003, 01:59 PM	#5
No_Style Styleless Wonder Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 6,034 Rep Power: 0	My oh my..RIAA is getting fiesty. Fiesty indeed. IF this goes through, RIAA is worse than spyware. I cannot believe how a "virus" of this type would be made legal. RIAA is making Microsoft's Windows monopolizing look like mere vandalism. __________________ "The Best Style Is No Style" Specifications Here

May 5, 2003, 02:31 PM	#6
StuRReaL DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Derby UK Posts: 78 Rep Power: 0	This sort of behavior is illegal, creating a program with those kind of abilities are VIRUSES, this must be stopped its redicuals, sending someone a virus is MORE ILLEGAL then than sharing copyrighted material. lets hope someone develops and antidote to this. Maybe we should just back at them and not buy music EVER, because music sharing actually increases CD sales!!!! __________________ AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ 1GB OCZ Platinum x2 74Gb WD Raptors RAID0 256mb Radeon X1300 Sapphire Pure Innovation M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Windows XP x64 Edition

May 6, 2003, 08:37 PM	#7
Rayder Mostly lurking lately.... Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 2,161 Rep Power: 73	If this crap actually becomes a reality, then my broadband ISP will become useless to me and will get cancelled. I will go back to some little $10 56k modem service just for E-mail and system updates. At least then I will know when I'm really online or not. This is why I'm looking for a little BBS program like the Commodore 64 days, so I can trade files WITHOUT some bastardly internet watcher breathing down my back and feeding me viruses! Here's one idea they couldn't defeat, stick your MP3's on a RAID port and shut it off in BIOS when your not using it. MWAHAHAHAHA!!! They'll never see it then, the bastards!

May 12, 2003, 09:33 PM	#8
Lock DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 33 Rep Power: 0	download and install PeerGuardian and re-address