I got an email from the RIAA...

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Rick Reuben wrote:Unrelated- there has been a rash of official-looking phishing emails purporting to be from irs.gov going around, promising tax refunds. It's all Russian bullshit.


I got a lot of those a couple of years back. One from the CIA, one from the FBI, and one from Cairo International Bank. They were all very poorly written and insisted I download the same sketchy-looking executable file.

I got an email from the RIAA...

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newberry wrote:
Skronk wrote:There's nothing really the RIAA could do besides taking the site down completely.


And/or sue.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/riaa ... l-awarded/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know ... s-calling/


Oink had upwards of 180,000 people if I remember correctly. What just opened, and they've got at least 15,000. The RIAA doesn't have that vast amount of time or resources to track down more than a handful of people, and it probably wouldn't make it to trial. Soulseek's a bit different.

They rely on scare tactics, and underhanded shit like paying Media Defender or hackers to fuck with sites. Or they get helped by proxy by some stooge in England with too much time on his hands.
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I got an email from the RIAA...

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Skronk wrote:
newberry wrote:
Skronk wrote:There's nothing really the RIAA could do besides taking the site down completely.


And/or sue.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/riaa ... l-awarded/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know ... s-calling/


Oink had upwards of 180,000 people if I remember correctly. What just opened, and they've got at least 15,000. The RIAA doesn't have that vast amount of time or resources to track down more than a handful of people, and it probably wouldn't make it to trial. Soulseek's a bit different.

They rely on scare tactics, and underhanded shit like paying Media Defender or hackers to fuck with sites. Or they get helped by proxy by some stooge in England with too much time on his hands.


I agree it's not likely that anything will happen, but I was responding to your earlier post:
There's nothing really the RIAA could do besides taking the site down completely.

I got an email from the RIAA...

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newberry wrote:
Skronk wrote:
newberry wrote:
Skronk wrote:There's nothing really the RIAA could do besides taking the site down completely.


And/or sue.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/riaa ... l-awarded/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know ... s-calling/


Oink had upwards of 180,000 people if I remember correctly. What just opened, and they've got at least 15,000. The RIAA doesn't have that vast amount of time or resources to track down more than a handful of people, and it probably wouldn't make it to trial. Soulseek's a bit different.

They rely on scare tactics, and underhanded shit like paying Media Defender or hackers to fuck with sites. Or they get helped by proxy by some stooge in England with too much time on his hands.


I agree it's not likely that anything will happen, but I was responding to your earlier post:
There's nothing really the RIAA could do besides taking the site down completely.

One could get sued by the RIAA to the tune of $222,000.

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