September 16th, 2003
NOTE FROM KIM:
The Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) has stepped up its efforts to curtail
illegal file sharing by issuing hundreds of subpoenas.
(RIAA) has stepped up its efforts to curtail
illegal file sharing by issuing hundreds of subpoenas.
The Top 8 Signs You’re
About to Receive an RIAA Subpoena
About to Receive an RIAA Subpoena
8> You wake up to find a bloodied hard drive under the covers.
7> You seem to be getting a lot of traffic from fbi_d00d.
6> That ain’t the Publisher’s Clearinghouse van in front of your house.
5> Lately the only music files you can find have names like You’reNextGeekBoy.mp3.
4> You try to download “Send Lawyers, Guns and Money” but all you get is “I Fought the Law and the Law Won.”
3> Amazon.com recommends you purchase an attorney to go along with the 100 GB hard drive you just ordered.
2> Maybe mp3.riaa.com wasn’t really an anonymous server after all?
and the Number 1 Sign You’re About to Receive an RIAA Subpoena…
1> Metallica and Court TV are both camped out in your driveway.
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Credits:
Selected from 32 submissions from 12 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:
Bill Livingston, Decatur, AL — 1
RW Lipp, Lenexa, KS — 2
Matt Van Opens, Kenosha, WI — 3, 6, Topic
Arthur Levesque, Laurel, MD — 4, 7
Matt Hurlburt, Stow, OH — 5
Doug Crews, San Diego, CA — 8
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List Moderator