RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings
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RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings
RIAA Wrath Hits Teen
"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."
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"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."
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not really..... They wanted an emoticon to show how they're feeling, i just posted some for them to use!! not off topic really!!
Makes you wonder how this guy is going to cope with life... I've read somewhere that a guy was presecuted and told to pay up his life savings for the rest of his life... so he just killed himself instead..
Makes you wonder how this guy is going to cope with life... I've read somewhere that a guy was presecuted and told to pay up his life savings for the rest of his life... so he just killed himself instead..
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Um, no. I am the one who posted the story and it doesn't mention anything about anyone killing themselves.tetsuokin wrote:Try clicking on the RIAA Wrath Hits Teen headline, as that's a link to the story!!
If you have a link to *this* story, please can we have it? Otherwise it's just rumour/hearsay/urban myth.tetsuokin wrote:I've read somewhere that a guy was presecuted and told to pay up his life savings for the rest of his life... so he just killed himself instead..
probably an urban myth, read it somewhere on another forum ages ago... The forum was closed down by the FBI or some government body!!
Go and check out http://www.isonews.com to see how bad the FBI are!!
Go and check out http://www.isonews.com to see how bad the FBI are!!