webe123
01-26-2004, 07:29 AM
Read this! http://www.cybergrass.com//modules....article&sid=176
It tells how a judge gave the go ahead for Sharman Networks to SUE the media industry for using their software to get information, post fake files, etc.....ALL IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF SHARMAN NETWORKS LICENSE AGREEMENT...WHICH THEY BROKE!! HE! HE! Looks like the "legal" tables are finally turning on the recording industry! It is about time they were made to play by the same rules as everyone else is!
Well if they can prove that THEIR license agreement was violated, then they would have a case against the RIAA! You cannot use methods to violate the law and the expect a favorable ruling from a court of law, EVEN if you suspect that the people you are investigating are doiing something illegal! You STILL have to stay within the guidelines of the law if you are going to win in court. What the RIAA did was clearly a violation of the EULA they agreed to when they used Sharman Networks software! Even the police know that there are limits to what they can and cannot do and that there is a line they cannot cross over or they will be in legal trouble! (EVEN if they have a suspect that they KNOW is doing wrong!) So how much authority the RIAA has is not the question, what is the question, is weather or not they broke the law to satisfy their own desires! (They sure have tried haven't they?)
I admit that Sharman Networks are sleazeballs, but this is one case that ought to prove interesting. I don't believe that judge would have given the go ahead unless he thought that there WAS methods that the RIAA has used in the past that were questionable and even illegal. But I guess time will tell! If nothing else, this provides one more headache to a growing number for the RIAA and the more they get, the happier I am!
It tells how a judge gave the go ahead for Sharman Networks to SUE the media industry for using their software to get information, post fake files, etc.....ALL IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF SHARMAN NETWORKS LICENSE AGREEMENT...WHICH THEY BROKE!! HE! HE! Looks like the "legal" tables are finally turning on the recording industry! It is about time they were made to play by the same rules as everyone else is!
Well if they can prove that THEIR license agreement was violated, then they would have a case against the RIAA! You cannot use methods to violate the law and the expect a favorable ruling from a court of law, EVEN if you suspect that the people you are investigating are doiing something illegal! You STILL have to stay within the guidelines of the law if you are going to win in court. What the RIAA did was clearly a violation of the EULA they agreed to when they used Sharman Networks software! Even the police know that there are limits to what they can and cannot do and that there is a line they cannot cross over or they will be in legal trouble! (EVEN if they have a suspect that they KNOW is doing wrong!) So how much authority the RIAA has is not the question, what is the question, is weather or not they broke the law to satisfy their own desires! (They sure have tried haven't they?)
I admit that Sharman Networks are sleazeballs, but this is one case that ought to prove interesting. I don't believe that judge would have given the go ahead unless he thought that there WAS methods that the RIAA has used in the past that were questionable and even illegal. But I guess time will tell! If nothing else, this provides one more headache to a growing number for the RIAA and the more they get, the happier I am!