Monday, June 09, 2003

RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings, "ABCNews is reporting on a 19-year-old college student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He created a site named ChewPlastic.com where students could search for files on the university network. Mind you, this is not a music file sharing software, this is just a search engine. Presumably, the search engine was being used to search for music files as well. The folks over at the RIAA did not take too kindly to the idea, and sued the student. He settled but denies any wrongdoing. What was settlement, you ask? His life's savings." This has got to fucking stop!!!

Are we gona sue, google for making a search engine that lets people find copyrighted materials that have been misapropriated? How about m$ for making a server and a browser that that let you download them, or aol for that matter? Maybe apple? What the fuck is goin on here!!!

BTW if your reading this and you work for the RIAA, FUCK YOU!!!

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