RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings

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RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings

Post by TheParanoidOne » 2003-06-09 16:47

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."

[Synopsis taken from Slashdot]
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Post by Charalambos » 2003-06-09 17:01

It'a a pity there isn't a shaking head emoticon.

This would be the place for it.
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Post by TheParanoidOne » 2003-06-09 17:10

What I really want is a :sigh: smily. I'm sure I would use that a lot here. :)
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Post by tetsuokin » 2003-06-10 05:18

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Try using these ones if you want.. they're from my forum

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Post by mai9 » 2003-06-10 19:30

I know we are in the off-topic, but we went off-topic on the off-topic. :roll:

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Post by tetsuokin » 2003-06-11 01:45

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..

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Post by TheParanoidOne » 2003-06-11 03:37

Can we have a link to that story please.
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Post by tetsuokin » 2003-06-14 16:27

Try clicking on the RIAA Wrath Hits Teen headline, as that's a link to the story!!

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Post by TheParanoidOne » 2003-06-14 16:43

tetsuokin wrote:Try clicking on the RIAA Wrath Hits Teen headline, as that's a link to the story!!
Um, no. I am the one who posted the story and it doesn't mention anything about anyone killing themselves.
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..
If you have a link to *this* story, please can we have it? Otherwise it's just rumour/hearsay/urban myth.
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Post by tetsuokin » 2003-06-15 09:28

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!!

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