The RIAA Armageddon has begun

No, I'm fairly certain that this will be the measure which finally prompts the populace of earth to view their wanton disregard for intellectual property rights with shame and disgust, vowing forevermore to keep their noses clean and suckle contentedly at the teats of their corporate masters. It'll be like when we won the War on Drugs back in the '80s.

restrict access to only certain major websites like Google, Facebook or a list of the top 200 sites going

The future of the internet: TV.

Agreed, when the people stop worrying about the rights of artists and start weeping for the lost sales of conglomerates we'll be in a better place xp

in the future there will be no recorded music. bands will play their music live into a microphone on demand.

in that case, RIP loudness war

as much as I was hoping this would be fake I suppose it does succeed in 1) pissing off customers and 2) generating virtually no revenue, so it at least seems like a legitimate RIAA idea

Even if they shut down the whole internet for good, most people already have more music than they could possibly listen to in several lifetimes.

lol frogbs

july 12th is my birthday!

They can require that an alleged repeat offender undergo an educational course before their service is restored. They can utilize multiple warnings, restrict access to only certain major websites like Google, Facebook or a list of the top 200 sites going, reduce someone’s bandwidth to practically nothing and even share information on repeat offenders with competing ISPs, effectively creating a sort of Internet blacklist — although publicly, none of the network operators have agreed to “terminate” a customer’s service.

This is so goddamn stupid, people pay for internet service and are likely going to drop their ISP the instant they pull any of this shit, and whichever ISP decides to actually not spy on their customers is going to be the go-to company for anyone who's even a little internet savvy. Throughout their entire existance "give the customers what they want" has never been an option for the RIAA so this is not surprising in the least.

It says so much about the fucked wiring in their heads that they always opt for taking punitive measures towards (potential) customers over restructuring their business model in response to changing trends. Western Union didn't send thugs around to shoot people's dogs if they deigned to use a telephone, iirc.

unfortunately most people in America don't have real choices when it comes to ISPs. For broadband internet I can choose between Verizon, Comcast and RCN. The first two have agreed to sign up for this program, not sure about RCN (which I use). I can't just drop RCN because they decided to send me copyright nastygrams because the alternatives aren't any better.

I'm kind of in the same boat, but I assume for people in bigger cities there's more of a choice?

I would guess that one major ISP would opt out of this? Honestly if the RIAA's learned anything (obviously they haven't) it's that measures like this NEVER produce the intended result; look at all the fallout from copy-protection. I'd assume if one ISP just publicly came out and said "we'll keep everything private", they'd get a ton of business post-July?

There's a case like this going on in Australia, in which AFACT (a shady group funded by Hollywood) is suing an ISP for 'authorising' copyright infringement. AFACT lost the case and the appeal, and now they're thrashing out a further high court appeal. You know, instead of selling their stuff.

My property management company only allows Comcast in their buildings, not only for cable and internet, but for land line telephone, too, for Christ's sake.

Someone told me this is illegal, but idk. Whether it is illegal or not, it's fucked up.

Wouldn't encrypted browsing/file sharing get around this? I'm kinda dumb about this stuff, but you know... TOR or something?

or a VPN

or SoulSeek?

i'm told that an offsite seedbox is the answer.

if ISPs are trying to control certain protocols, they are going to lose that battle -- people will just mask them as "acceptable" protocols like http and gaming servers.

i don't you guys, i don't think these measures are intended to stop the internet savvy types that already have work-arounds in place, they're going after the millions of Americans who either don't know how, or won't bother, to do these things and just give up when googling "Taylor Swift megaupload" doesn't work any more.

Wow, this came out of nowhere. Metal Archives, also known as Encyclopedia Metallum, was shut down. I'm not sure what happened because, afaik, it was just a resource similar to wiki that listed metal bands and had album lists and reviews. Unless there was something going down in the forums, I never spent any time there. This is weird.

http://www.metal-archives.com/banner2ha.jpg

Nevermind me, I just realized the date today.

i was about to say...

there's a spot where you can click through on that page.

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-the-us-government-is-wrong-heres-why-120326/

CaptainCrawl went down today:

Dear music blogosphere,

due to legal reasons and intense server costs CaptainCrawl has to go offline - forever.
And - sadly - this is not an April the 1st joke.

In the past 4 years CaptainCrawl has been one of the most visited sites in the music
blogosphere, with more than 4,500,000 (searchable and tagged) music blogs posts,
16,000,000 unique visits and some 10,000s of high quality one-click audio previews
(tracks, mixes, talks). From April 1st 2012, this site will be offline.

The possibility to perform full text searches within the entire music blogosphere was always a problem for labels & lawyers. CC got serious complaints from major labels and major artists, so CC has to react on that. And we are talking about big names here. Like Coldplay.

Pretty good article about getting a copyright claim for video of a presidential speech. Gives some insight into how Youtube & Google use manipulation and how one-sided the whole thing is.

http://jotman.blogspot.com/2012/03/youtube-helped-ioda-steal-my-video-of.html

anymore updates on this coming armageddon? How many of you have, er, complied?

Am I totally paranoid for thinking that this sounds shady, particularly given the July deadline? It just seems like an awfully easy way to open your computer up to scanning/monitoring by the FBI.

How many of you have, er, complied?

well my experience has been that you can't find anything at all online anymore, no mediafire, no nothin'. so I guess I am "complying" but somewhat involuntarily. I'm sure there's some private trackers that still torrent, but I'm not motivated enough for that. End of an era, etc.

Film scores are still obtainable on private blogs. That fandom is hyper-dedicated (reupping 100s of MU links to MF, etc). Everything else, yeah, pretty gone.

Mediafire links on blog and such are still active but, yes, I've noticed the gradual extinction.

I got two notices on my mediafire account. One is for a track which uses samples from Lou Reed's "New York Telephone Conversation" alongside telephone sounds in a sort of music concrete sound collage. The other is a rip I made of Zacherle's "Monster Mash" LP. I've even gotten some notices on mediafire & youtube about song covers. My solution is that I'm going to just have to go through and permanently delete all covers. Let's hear it for the RIAA for protecting musicians. RIP the folk tradition.

the /rs/ board at 4ch@n is still pretty useful

huh that's wild re: samples from Lou Reed's "New York Telephone Conversation" ... wonder how long it is til i get notices about the various bootleggy type things i post on mediafire.

would be great if because of the whole RIAA thing, some artists who really don't care about live recordings circulating would give the go-ahead to archive.org or somesuch.

I had a remix of a Nicki Minaj track I did taken down by soundcloud. I put it up on mediafire and haven't had any problem, although that may be due to retitling it.

Some publicists send out tons of stuff very much meant to be freely shared, downloaded, embedded etc. etc.--will our new Overlords grok this?

I was pretty excited to hear Vladimir Nabokov reading "Lolita" on Doom & Gloom From the Tomb today but apparently the RIAA got to the file first. :-(

whoooa, crazy. how does that work, someone reported it? an out of print LP of vladimir nabokov? wacky.
well, here it is (mp3s still work): http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/245

Thanks! <3<3<3

that's the first time that's ever happened on my blog. scary.

My favorite blog ever, btw. It'll be a sad day if it ever goes down.

i got this email about a youtube video of a Prince tribute band.

Your video "Purple Veins - I Wanna Be Your Lover @ High Noon Saloon", may have content that is owned or licensed by UMPG Publishing, but it’s still available on YouTube! In some cases, it may be blocked, or ads may appear next to it.

This claim is not penalizing your account status. Visit your Copyright Notices page for more details on the policy applied to your video.

honestly i have no idea what this means.

oh, i guess this is what it means:

Your video is blocked in these locations:
United States

Eventually the RIAA is going to start taking down blogs that go into too much detail when describing music with the written word.

Eventually the RIAA is going to start taking down blogs that go into too much detail when describing music with the written word.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, April 23, 2012 1:14 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guess that means [insert blog name here] doesn't have to worry, am i right guys??!!!? hahahahahaha, ZING! #zing

lol

my only fear is that there's nothing the RIAA could do to marginalize itself enough to stop doing these things