Know Your Rights: What to do when the RIAA comes calling


	Know Your Rights: What to do when the RIAA comes calling

alironan

9-1-2007 7:58 AM

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music, copyright, riaa, download, p2p, sharing, lawsuit

alironan says:

Hmmm... Is this really happening?... comments please

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/92faaa14-c984-4d04-ae15-7e28adb7b4dd/4B2111E0-9B12-4F50-8CC2-227680F3CE0F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/" href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.engadget.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/"><SPAN id="ppt978842">Know Your Rights: What to do when the RIAA comes calling</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/"><SPAN>Help! I'm being sued by the RIAA!</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/">Wow, bad luck for you. The RIAA really only sues about 6,000 people a year, mostly those who use FastTrack clients like Kazaa.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/">Preface: There's been a lot of discussion about the RIAA's, shall we say "controversial" (and we're being generous here) tactics in suing P2P users who download copyrighted content; especially this week, what with the EFF releasing its <A href="http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/riaa-v-thepeople.php">"RIAA v. The People: Four Years Later" report</A>. But it's never been easy to find information about the nuts-and-bolts of what happens when you get that first letter from the RIAA.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/"><SPAN>Well, that's great, but I didn't do anything wrong.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/"><SPAN>Of course they know who I am! I got this letter, didn't I?</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/"><SPAN>Man, this is really depressing.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/">t is, but the more information you have about this, the better. We're not big fans of the RIAA's scare tactics</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/">Stay safe, stay respectful, and most of all -- know your rights.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/know-your-rights-what-to-do-with-the-riaa-comes-calling/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.engadget.com/img/3C6E8353-5678-4A20-82F1-C65691B4199E" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4B2111E0-9B12-4F50-8CC2-227680F3CE0F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>