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RIAA Wants the Internet Shutdown

Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:36 am

Uhm... 3 words:

What The Crap

Like THIS will ever happen :lol: Good luck to them.
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:46 am

What does "RIAA" even stand for?

EDIT: oh, Recording Industry Association of America
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Postby Doe Johnson » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:13 am

:eh: okay....

*suddenly has a fond memory of the time she had to look something up on RIAA's site for homework and it got hacked into so instead she got to write on what happened*
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Postby EireWolf » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:37 am

ONE OF THE lawyers involved in defending cases bought against people by the RIAA claims that if the music industry wins a crucial case, the Internet will have to be switched off.

:lol: Where do they hide that monumental switch, I wonder?

Oh, wait... by posting that quote, am I infringing copyright? :eyeroll:
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Postby Ashley » Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:43 pm

There's no way they can do this. Constitutionality, public uproar, risk of total anarchy/coup d'etat....there's no way it'll actually go through.
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:52 pm

Ashley wrote:There's no way they can do this. Constitutionality, public uproar, risk of total anarchy/coup d'etat....


Yeah... I can picture now mobs worldwide, screaming out with their torches and pitchforks "we want (insert site name) back!"

It... would not be a good sight^^
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Postby Nate » Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:59 pm

I believe this article to be a hoax or joke article.

The internet is not limited to America. The RIAA cannot shut down the internet, because the internet isn't American.
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Postby uc pseudonym » Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:01 pm

Looking on the bright side, the online backlash to this will be amusing. I have to wonder, even if the government tried to do this with all the resources in their possession, how possible would it be? Illegal activities are impossible to stop completely, and I wonder how widespread they'd be. If by some dark miracle this all went through we could have Prohibition II on our hands.

Eirewolf wrote:Where do they hide that monumental switch, I wonder?

I thought that was the funniest part of the article too. Remember when Lou the Janitor accidentally flipped the switch off and the internet didn't work for about a week?
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Postby EireWolf » Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:25 pm

:lol: I suspect the lawyer who said the Internet would have to be switched off was saying it tongue-in-cheek, to show how ridiculous the RIAA was being.

Sheesh... If they tried to ban the internet, there would be general chaos and rioting in the streets....
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Postby Puritan » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:55 pm

It's the Inquirer...I've seen rather interesting articles from them before, they aren't exactly the most reliable news source in existence, and I suspect we would hear howls from the BBC and other big online news sources far before something like this reached the serious stage, if only to protect their very existence.
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Postby Myoti » Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:00 pm

I can totally see this happening.




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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:10 pm

Myoti wrote:I can totally see this happening.




Right after they catch batboy hiding in Bill Clinton's UFO with a copy of the Twelve Commandments.


Maybe you're thinking of "The National Enquirer"? My mom reads those, and even those are celebrity gossip mags (she reads them for fun). If you were refering to one of those bizzare tabloids, that is^^ This one just looks to be comp related, rather than monsters and whatever^^
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:39 pm

kaemmerite wrote:I believe this article to be a hoax or joke article.

I was under the impression of the same thing, but I wasn't entirely sure.
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Postby Mr. Rogers » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:16 pm

This this has to be a joke.


When will the RIAA and music industry learn that they are fighting a losing battle...
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Postby Icarus » Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:40 am

I found this part interesting:
If you send any file on the Net the RIAA will be allowed to suspect that you are in breach of copyright.


Yes. And what will that do to things like iTunes?
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Postby Mithrandir » Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:49 am

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