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RIAA messaging gambit faces countermeasures
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-04-30

To the Recording Industry Association of America, sending threatening messages to online music swappers is a potentially effective way to educate the public that trading copyrighted material is wrong. But to security geeks in the file trading community, the technique is just another volley in the electronic war with peer-to-peer opponents... and a rather trivial one at that.

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RIAA messaging gambit faces countermeasures 2003-05-07
Anonymous
I agree, if the music was more fairly priced, and if there was some value-add to buying the CD, P2P would decrease.

I remember when CD's were first coming out and were going to lower the production costs of the big music companies by over 1000%. They said these savings would be passed on to the ...

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