Report: Amnesty offer for music file sharers

[Rob Adelman]

<http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/05/music.amnesty.ap/index.html>

"The offer of amnesty will not apply to the roughly 1,600 people who
already have been targets of copyright subpoenas from the Recording
Industry Association of America, which has promised to file hundreds of
infringement lawsuits across the country as early as next week."

[Thomas Bishop]

"EggHd" > wrote in message ...
> Did I misunderstand this or does this not protect them from labels or
artists
> sueing them?

That's right. "Oops, we let the list of thousands of people leak to
hundreds of record labels. Our bad."

[Rob Adelman]

EggHd wrote:

> Did I misunderstand this or does this not protect them from labels or artists
> sueing them?

Nope, thats what is said.

[Bryson]

Thomas Bishop wrote:
> "EggHd" > wrote in message ...
>
>>Did I misunderstand this or does this not protect them from labels or
>
> artists
>
>>sueing them?
>
>
> That's right. "Oops, we let the list of thousands of people leak to
> hundreds of record labels. Our bad."
>

Well besides that, citizens will have the right to obtain a
list of offenders in their community, from their local police
department.

[transducr]

Rob Adelman > wrote in message >...
> <http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/05/music.amnesty.ap/index.html>
>
> "The offer of amnesty will not apply to the roughly 1,600 people who
> already have been targets of copyright subpoenas from the Recording
> Industry Association of America, which has promised to file hundreds of
> infringement lawsuits across the country as early as next week."

this is the biggest load of crap. essentially they're attempting to
bluff their way into 'scaring straight' some more file sharers.

not only does this agreement not actually protect the person who signs
and agrees to it from all copyright owners they may have infringed on
(while simultaneously identifying them as a target for such
litigation), but i seriously question the RIAA's actual ability to
really pursue or even identify as many file sharers as they'd like
everyone to believe.

[Rob Adelman]

transducr wrote:

> i seriously question the RIAA's actual ability to
> really pursue or even identify as many file sharers as they'd like
> everyone to believe.

Looks like they got something on them:

"Hundreds of file swappers sued"
<http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/08/music.downloading/index.html>