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The RIAA's illegal actions. |
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The RIAA has taken extra efforts to end peer to peer file sharing. It has implemented hacks into popular programs that replace musical tones with unpleasant screeching sounds. The RIAA even admits to doing this deed by posting on its website, "The proper programs have been installed to disable music listening from P2P networks." This is contrary to the legalities of the copyright laws. The United States' copyright laws are described in length in Title 17. In the Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media subchapter B, it specifically states, "No person shall import or offer or perform any service, the primary purpose or effect of which is to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or otherwise circumvent any program or circuit which implements a system that has the same functional characteristics as the Serial Copy Management System." |
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This section specifically states an illegal process, a process that the RIAA openly admits to be doing. In the RIAA's quest to end illegal actions, they have hypocritically resulted to using illegal hacking programs. Instead of attempting to challenge the courts for the legalities of file sharing, the RIAA has taken a much simpler route. |
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Kazaa is the leading file-sharing program with it's record setting 230,309,616 uploads of the program. Currently, Kazaa is becoming more and more unreliable due to the efforts of the RIAA. The RIAA has sued users that download over a thousand songs. This has feared many Kazaa users, and many people have stopped sharing files. There is an option in Kazaa to restrict the sharing of your own files, although one is still able to download files. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find the desired music file through the Kazaa program. It seems that Kazaa is entering into its dying stages as more and more people are switching to more reliable, more accessible programs. On the behalf of file sharers everywhere: Thank you RIAA for taking away one of our true passions. You have surely succeeded in bringing happiness and equality to the citizens of the United States. |
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