RIAA wants the Internet shut down

[ComradE_BeaN]

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.

Speaking on the DefectiveByDesign anti-DRM campaign site, Ray Beckerman said the case of Electro vs. Barker has become very important for the web's future.

Barker was being defended by Beckerman who made a motion to dismiss the case because the RIAA had forgot to provide any acts or dates or times of copyright infringement as the law normally requires.

The RIAA argued that by merely making files available on the Internet Barker was making a copyright infringement.

Beckerman said that it was a shocking argument because if it were accepted by the court it would probably shut down the entire Internet. If you send any file on the Net the RIAA will be allowed to suspect that you are in breach of copyright.

What was more disturbing is that the RIAA called up its mates in Washington to back it up. Apparently the United States Government has put in motions supporting the RIAA.

RIAA wants the Internet shut down

:hap5: what are those guys thinking..

well this is the most funny reply i found in another site:

If internet been shut down by RIAA.
activation for XP and Vista will be a big problem to m$. LoL.

:rofl: :rofl:

 

[Params7]

internet can't be shut down, it'll be like switching off the world, everything will stop working.

 

[ComradE_BeaN]

^lol..yes...Only way to kill the Entire WWW would be shutdown all the Public DNS Root Server and all there Clusters. Even that would still not REALy do the trick but would really piss some people off.

another funny comment to this..

"The internet will have to be switched off". That can never happen because there a huge ****n dude guarding the switch at all times, I don't see any way one could get past him.

 

[iosoft]

is Internet 'his' father's property ? or USA's property ?

hmmmmm.....
According to him, Internet is used to copy music. so he is trying to ban Internet.
For his kind information, electricity drives all those Internet devices, music system, protable devices. Why don't he ban electricity, battery etc. !!

GO AND STOP the Internet. I don't care. Because, now we have our own power. Wi-MAX. We will build our own OPEN-INTERNET. hahahhaha.

 

[ultra vires]

Wi-Max is just like ethernet .. a communication medium.
if they switch all internet servers.. there is no use of WiMax nither can u build ur own internet. wimax cant cover the whole earth :|

 

[SoulFire]

funny stuff, what people with no kaam dhanda can think of doing , geez

 

[iosoft]

Wi-Max is just like ethernet .. a communication medium.
if they switch all internet servers.. there is no use of WiMax nither can u build ur own internet. wimax cant cover the whole earth :|

Yes, but you didn't get point.

1st Wi-Max will make a LAN within a locality.
many locality will make zone.
many zone will make a city, then entire city.
then city with city...... and then the whole country.

you know LAN -> MAN -> WAN -> Internet (all will be based on Wi-MAX LAN).

 

[thexfactor]

This must be in the joke section

 

[iosoft]

This must be in the joke section

totally agree with you.

 

[chic_magnet]

who downloads crappy american pop and garbage rap and bull crap hip hop anyways?/

 

[ComradE_BeaN]

^i love rap & hip hop.....hyeah:

 

[iosoft]

^i love rap & hip hop.....hyeah:

Yes me too. I also like Hip-Hop. Few years ago I didn't heard of 'hip-hop' word, untill I got the GTA game :hap2: since then.....

MOD: sorry, I know it is totally OT, sorry again.

 

[PriyoBan]

Well what they can do is shut down all public access... and have only authoritative access... that way they'll be able to stop piracy... and if they do manage that... im personally going to make 30 copies of each of all my music cds and sell it for 10 bucks each... Suck on that RIAA. Who's with me?

 

[chic_magnet]

if they shut down the internet.. cost of pirated copies would go up . sheesh!