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Re: FYI: Anyone seen this?

  • From: Marshall Eubanks
  • Date: Wed Jan 15 06:20:46 2003

The feeling in the music community is that this is almost certainly a hoax.

Of course, RIAA apparently tried to legalize such activities in the Berman Bill.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks

On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 12:09 AM, [email protected] wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:16:31 EST, blitz <[email protected]>  said:


http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28842.html

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 14/01/2003

The RIAA is preparing to infect MP3 files in order to audit and
eventually disable file swapping, according to a startling claim by

The RIAA denies all knowledge...

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,827970,00.asp

Of course, even if it were true, they'd probably want to deny it, since
they haven't gotten their "hack back" legislation passed yet.... :)


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