"The record in this case suggests that the larger issue may not be whether students are sharing copyrighted music," the state's brief noted. In a 15-page brief filed Wednesday, Oregon's assistant attorney general, Katherine Von Ter Stegge, said that while it is appropriate for victims of copyright infringement to pursue statutory remedies, that pursuit had to "tempered by basic notions of privacy and due process. They then drop the case and try to pressure these individuals into settling based on dubious evidence at best, he said. "The RIAA has been bringing fake copyright infringement lawsuits, the sole purpose of which is to get the names and addresses of John Does," he said. Myers' move raises fundamental - and overdue - questions about the tactics used by the RIAA in its campaign against alleged music pirates, Beckerman said. "It is a really huge step when the head law enforcement officer of a state wants to investigate the RIAA's evidence-gathering techniques," said Ray Beckerman, a New York-based lawyer who has been defending individuals in RIAA lawsuits. Officials at the RIAA could not immediately be reached for comment. It is the second time in a month that Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers has resisted attempts by the RIAA to force the university to turn over the names of individuals it says shared music illegally. District Court in Oregon calling for an immediate investigation of the evidence presented by the RIAA when it subpoenaed the identities of 17 students at the University of Oregon who allegedly infringed music copyrights. The state Attorney General's office this week filed an appeal in U.S.
Oregon is fast becoming Ground Zero in the contentious battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the tens of thousands of consumers it accuses of illegal music sharing. (links in the original article on the Computerworld site) The state attorney general is resisting the music labels' demand for consumer identities.īy Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld, Saturday, December 01, 2007 Oregon Challenges RIAA's Tactics in Music Piracy Claim Just another example of corporate greed killing another business. In fact, I'll be glad to read in the future when you fail for the reasons mentioned in this blog and then file for bankruptcy. I won't miss the pain-in-the-ass headaches you caused me. HughesNet, it's been a long and difficult relationship over the last year since you implemented FAP caps last year and started started penalizing people for using what they paid for. To those people, I would recommend, DON'T DO IT.
I'll leave it here (with sporadic updates) for people wondering about HughesNet and other satellite internet providers. The links on the right side provide great places to get news on the (poor) state of the US internet. NO MORE $60/MTH FOR DIALUP OVER THE SATELLITE.īeyond this, I really don't have anything to add to the blog. I told the person when I signed up for high speed internet that I liked the internet music stations like SomaFm and Radio Paradise, and she said there was no problem.
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And the most pleasant surprise is a really high speed internet connection for $36, along with a package of cable tv (I may go with DirecTV later since their programming is better and they have some channels I really like). I was only a month behind my goal of getting rid of HughesNet, but it came along with a move to a new city and state. Last week, I finally told HughesNet that I didn't need them anymore.