As most of you know, I certainly am emphatic that the RIAA must go, disappear, before
real progress can occur. I recently had a discussion with the moving force behind Tinfoil.net and he believes that there is value in trying to talk to the RIAA. Although I disagree at this point that anything will come of it, I am posting a message from the webmaster of Tinfoil.Net in which he calls for a unified effort from the major sites and groups involved in trying to bring a change to the current state of affairs. It was originally in Microsoft Word format, but for cross platform reliability, I am uploading it as a web page. The article he wrote is here.

One of the big 5 of the RIAA, Time Warner, has financial and legal problems.
Read more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1068880,00.html

SAMANTHA LADD of  www.HowtoCopyDVDs.com
lost in Court to media giants 20th Century Fox and others. The court issued
an order that serves as a "permanent injunction" against Ms. Ladd providing
any information or software to anyone, on how to make backup copies of
your own, legally purchased, DVD movies. Read more.
http://www.yourdvdrights.com/laddstoryhome.htm

SIGN THE PETITION TO OPPOSE GLOBAL TYRANNY
CLICK HERE
(Big thank you to those already signing the petition!)
RIAA wins online royalty battle
Bill Bergstrom
OCTOBER 21, 2003
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7624479%5E15336%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15318,00.html

SENATOR NORM COLEMAN TALKS TO THE POST ABOUT FILE SHARING DEBATE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5486-2003Oct9.html

CodeWarrior is named as Information Director at boycott-riaa.
Great things are happening at www.boycott-riaa.com
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/8538 <---read more.

"IP Justice has published a White Paper that analyzes key section of the
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Treaty chapter on intellectual
property rights.  According the IP Justice report "FTAA: A Threat to
Freedom and Free Trade," the Treaty would require all 34 FTAA countries
in the Western Hemisphere to send P2P file-sharers to prison.  The FTAA
Treaty also contains 'DMCA-like' anti-circumvention laws.  IP Justice
sponsored a petition calling upon the FTAA Treaty negotiators to delete
the entire chapter on intellectual property rights from the FTAA Treaty.
FTAA Treaty negotiators meet in Miami from Nov. 16-21, 2003, and if
passed, the treaty will take effect in 2005 and govern the lives of 800
million citizens of the Americas.  Sign the petition!

Oct. 20, 2003 Media Release on FTAA
http://ipjustice.org/FTAA/release20031020.shtml"

Europe imposes its thumb on England.
" http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3629344&section=news

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is poised to adopt a European Union
copyright law designed to stop music, film and software piracy, which
could carry heavy penalties for people who download pirated files.

The EU Copyright Directive, a broad set of laws designed to protect
content makers, is similar to the controversial U.S. Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Parliament is expected to pass the
law some time this month, about 10 months after the deadline for EU
members to enact the legislation.

The law was opposed at various times by civil liberty advocates, who
argued it went too far and infringed on consumer freedoms, and by the
music industry, which did not think it went far enough to crack down
on piracy.

"It's all but done and dusted, and at this point very little can stop
it," said Julian Midgley on Thursday, a spokesman for the UK-based
Foundation for Information Policy Research, which opposes the law.

One provision would make it illegal to "communicate" a copyrighted
work to the public "to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the
owner of the copyright," and carries a maximum penalty of a fine and
two years in jail."

Ways to protect your privacy :
1)  http://www.eprivacysoft.com/ interesting page describing BlackCatMp3Guard
" Download Black Cat MP3 Guard (332kB) and stop the RIAA's scans
dead in their tracks. Black Cat runs in the background and monitors
queries sent to your computer via Kazaa and other file sharing apps;
If Black Cat determines that a given query is suspicious or came from
known RIAA computers, it will block it."

2)  PeerGuardian
http://xs.tech.nu/ The current version is 199b. Great Program!

They're BAAAACK...
http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1027_3-5093078.html?part=msnbc-cnet&tag=alert&form=feed&subj=cnetnews

http://www.msnbc.com/news/980955.asp
 A RULE being considered by the Federal Communications Commission is one of a series of proposals pushed by the entertainment industry to help thwart copying and online trading of movies and television shows that increasingly are being broadcast in digital form with high-quality picture and sound.

‘BROADCAST FLAG’
But the new rule also would force consumers to purchase new equipment if they wanted to record enhanced digital-quality television programs and replay them on other machines.
Opponents of the proposed rule, including many technology companies and consumer groups, say it won’t work. They are especially concerned that the plan might lead to government regulation of how personal computers and other devices are built, particularly if hackers crack the system and further changes are deemed necessary.

Officials at the FCC, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they expect the agency to settle on details of the “broadcast flag” rule by the end of the month. The broadcast flag takes its name from the bit of computer code that would be embedded in digital television signals and would be read by “compliant” devices such as a television set or a digital video recorder.
The rule would not affect consumers who record shows the old-fashioned way, with VCRs. Nor would it affect programming received on a cable or satellite system, in part because consumers pay for that content.
MORE GLOBALIST ATTACKS ON FILE SHARERS

http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2110-1039-5092915.html?tag=nefd_hed

1)  http://www.eprivacysoft.com/ interesting page describing BlackCatMp3Guard
" Download Black Cat MP3 Guard (332kB) and stop the RIAA's scans
dead in their tracks. Black Cat runs in the background and monitors
queries sent to your computer via Kazaa and other file sharing apps;
If Black Cat determines that a given query is suspicious or came from
known RIAA computers, it will block it."

2)  PeerGuardian
http://xs.tech.nu/ The current version is 199b. Great Program!

They're BAAAACK...
http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1027_3-5093078.html?part=msnbc-cnet&tag=alert&form=feed&subj=cnetnews

TAKE NOTE - An important statement by congressman Rick Boucher.
If you live in his district, please support Representative Rick Boucher!
http://www.tombarger.com/copyrightreform/index4.html

See the "celebrants" who cheered the passage of the DMCA ?
Check this out. http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dmca-celebration-may02.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/16/BAG6F2CD8L1.DTL

A Primer on Copyright Laws by ~CodeWarrior

EVER NEED TO DELETE DATA ON YOUR DRIVE?
HERE'S SOME DOWN AND DIRTY METHODS TO
GET RID OF THOSE ONES AND ZEROS FOR GOOD.

RIAA to Charter: Give up file-swapper names

"eDonkey pulls ahead in European P2P race"

Rocker Ozzy Scraps Gigs for Tremor Treatment

MICROSOFT SUED OVER MUSIC DOWNLOADS

AN ESSAY ON P2P ISSUES FROM cookymonzta

BREAKING NEWS-MUSICIANS PROTEST
"http://www.afm.org/public/press/press_10-10-03.php
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10th, 2003
Contact: Honore Stockley (315) 422-4488 ext. 104
>From the Office of Thomas F. Lee, President, American Federation of
Musicians:

Musicians to Demonstrate in front of Record Label
 The artists, who irreverently refer to themselves as "The Green Linnet
Five," are planning to do a "sing-in" protest at the record label's
headquarters in Danbury, Connecticut. This will be the first protest
demonstration by recording artists against a label since the 1960's.
"This protest is not just about the five of us - it's also about the
countless other Irish artists who have also been stiffed but who can't
afford to sue a company with the financial resources of Green Linnet,"
said Mick Moloney, who is a professional musician, as well as a
professor of Irish music at New York University. "We will sing some
great old labor movement songs that were well known to the first
generation of Irish immigrants in America," Moloney added. "It will be a
great concert with an important message," Moloney said.

"It would probably shock most Irish music fans to know that the artists
who recorded their favorite Green Linnet albums have not been paid a
dime for many years," said famed fiddle player Eileen Ivers. The Green
Linnet Five hopes that their protest will cause the company to account
and pay all of their artists the royalties, which are long overdue.
Cherish the Ladies lead musician Joanie Madden said, "Green Linnet has
gotten away with this outrageous behavior because Irish artists sat back
and did nothing … well those days are officially over!"
 

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031009/nyth137_1.html

"Two Out of Three American Teens Oppose Fines for Music File Sharers, Says Harris Interactive Youth Survey
Thursday October 9, 3:40 pm ET

Almost Eight in Ten Teens Feel Sharing of Copyrighted Music Files Should be Legal