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.


The Top 8 Signs You’re
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