[IP] more on RIAA plans lawsuit binge against file traders

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall@astron.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:54:58 -0700 (PDT)
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] RIAA plans lawsuit binge against file traders


> Maybe the best response is to just stop buying RIAA members
> products.

You can do so by making use of the RIAA Radar.:

http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/

This allows you to add a bookmark that you can use to check if any
given music purchase is associated with an RIAA member label.

Specifically, you find the album on Amazon.com (even if you don't
intend to buy the album from amazon) and, when on the "album details"
page for a given release, you hit the RIAA Radar bookmark.  The RIAA
Radar checks the album against a list of RIAA members and returns
either a "warning" or "safe" depending on membership.

I use this before I download anything from eMusic et al.

Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Graduate Student                 http://astron.berkeley.edu/~jhall

"With an added layer of preference for commercial content by the
infrastructure itself, we could find ourselves with a medium much more
like the mass media of the 20th century than the Internet of the
1990s." --Yochai Benkler (NYU Law)


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