[Free-sklyarov-uk] [Eurorights] RIAA Wants Background Checks on CD-RW Buyers

[Dan Ackroyd]

Julian,

I believe that the bbspot web site is a spoof news site, such recent news
stories are :

Bush Threatens ISO Certification on Taliban
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/10/iso9000.html

Microsoft Employee Actually a Nice Guy
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/03/ms_employee.html

RIAA Sues Mirror Manufacturers
http://bbspot.com/News/2000/8/riaa_mirror.html


> "The RIAA has gone too far this time. There are uses for 
> CD-RW drives that
> don't violate RIAA copyrights like burning multiple copies of 
> Microsoft Office for friends and neighbors," 

Perhaps you need to get a few early nights in ;)

cheers
dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian T J Midgley [mailto:jtjm at xenoclast.org]
> Sent: 01 November 2001 11:33
> To: free-sklyarov-uk at xenoclast.org
> Subject: [Free-sklyarov-uk] [Eurorights] RIAA Wants 
> Background Checks on
> CD-RW Buyers
> 
> 
> 
> To read this, you'd think it was April 1st..., but no - 
> they're serious.
> Recently, the RIAA has been making itself look so ridiculous 
> I'm beginning
> to think they are doing so deliberately.  Haven't worked out 
> what their
> cunning plan is yet, though.  Answers on a postcard, please...
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:47:09 +0200 (EET)
> From: Jei
> Reply-To: eurorights at eurorights.org
> To: cypherpunks at toad.com
> Cc: eurorights at eurorights.org
> Subject: [Eurorights] RIAA Wants Background Checks on CD-RW Buyers
> 
> http://www.bbspot.com/news/2001/10/riaa.html
> 
> Technology News
> Monday  October 29 10:52 PM EST
> 
> RIAA Wants Background Checks on CD-RW Buyers
> 
> Washington DC - The RIAA is lobbying for vendors of CD-RW drives to
> conduct background checks and require a 3 day waiting period 
> before the
> drive can be sold.
> 
> The extensive background check would include cross 
> referencing credit card
> numbers with local merchants sales logs looking for purchases of
> dual-cassette decks between the years of 1980 and 1987. It would also
> include checking for installation of file sharing software, 
> knowledge of
> the Internet, and the ability to hum. Any of which would bar 
> the purchaser
> from receiving his drive.
> 
> Saaaatan? "A CD-RW can be a dangerous weapon when it falls 
> into the wrong
> hands," said RIAA President Hilary Rosen, "You wouldn't sell 
> a gun to a
> convicted felon and you shouldn't sell a CD-RW drive to a 
> Gnutella user.
> The 3 day waiting period gives us time to verify that no copyrighted
> material is on the purchasers hard drive and to make sure they have a
> membership in the Columbia House CD club."
> 
> Current owners of CD-RW drives would be required to obtain a 
> license for
> use of the drive or face stiff fines. Licenses could be obtained by
> enrollment at a local RIAA Education Camp where the horrors 
> of copyright
> violation would be instilled with the use of electro-shock therapy.
> 
> "I was alarmed when I heard that children had the ability to burn CDs
> right on their computers," said Senator Strom Thurmond, 
> "We've tried to
> educate parents on the dangers of children playing with fire, and now
> these death merchants sell them that ability in a shiny metal 
> box." Other
> Senators voiced their concerns about the possible violations 
> of privacy in
> the proposed legislation, but since it was called the 
> Copyright Patriotism
> Act they are unable to oppose it.
> 
> "The RIAA has gone too far this time. There are uses for 
> CD-RW drives that
> don't violate RIAA copyrights like burning multiple copies of 
> Microsoft
> Office for friends and neighbors," said Matthew Sodor an 
> opponent of the
> legislation. Other News:
> 
> 
> 
> 
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