TipYourBartender
September 11th, 2002, 06:31 PM
What do we do here at Zeropaid anyway?
120,000 members come here, some every day, some maybe more than once a day. We visit the site and we read the news.
Who's in the news?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation. Dr. Damn. Developers of great P2P software, from LimeWire to WinMX to Ares to whatever meets your fancy.
I, for one, am sick and tired of coming to this site to do nothing but bitch and moan. That's all we do on the newsboards anyway. We all go, "Fuck the RIAA" and "Fuck the MPAA" or "Fuck Kazaa" or "Fuck Bearshare" or "Fuck (anything you don't like at all, including first posts or iguanas)" Seeing RIAA v. Audiogalaxy become another notch in the RIAA's Championship belt (wrestling fans, take note: the RIAA is a heel), and the RIAA take aim at FastTrack (with a pending summary judgement undoubtedly going the RIAA's way, based on the past precedents of Napster and Madster/Aimster), I feel I can't just sit here and do nothing.
But what is there for a non-programmer, or a non-lawyer, in the case of the EFF, to do? How do our voices count?
Make an online petiton? That is about as useful as peeing in the shower.
Hack the RIAA website? Again, I ain't a computer programmer, though I know my way around one.
File a lawsuit? I haven't the financial resources to attack the RIAA's bevy of financial lawyers.
Keep downloading music? This one disturbs me. I bet a lot of people think of this as some sort of protest, the equivalent of sticking your middle finger out at Hilary Rosen. But the problem is that, in both the short and the long run, it does nothing to change what is an inevitable march on our civil liberties by her spawns of Satan.
Here's the payoff:
I brought up an idea in one of the news posts. We should start filing support briefs - I've heard them called "friends of the court" briefs, as well as an "amicus brief" (NOTE: I'm assuming they're roughly the same thing - Someone should call me on it if they're not). I hope that at least one ZP member is a lawyer, or at least in law school, and that they would help in the crafting of such a document. wiggum has already said he'd look into it, and hopefully he's doing so, with my thanks. I would do whatever I can to help in this, and in any other way which would allow those who can't write their own programs, hack into websites, or write law briefs to do their part in this Celebrity Deathmatch. I didn't say it was a great idea, but I do think it's a good start.
If anyone likes this idea, or has another idea, speak up. Remember, WE HAVE, AS OF THIS WRITING, 123,386 MEMBERS. It's about time we mobilize instead of bitching and moaning on the fucking newsboards.
Peace.
120,000 members come here, some every day, some maybe more than once a day. We visit the site and we read the news.
Who's in the news?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation. Dr. Damn. Developers of great P2P software, from LimeWire to WinMX to Ares to whatever meets your fancy.
I, for one, am sick and tired of coming to this site to do nothing but bitch and moan. That's all we do on the newsboards anyway. We all go, "Fuck the RIAA" and "Fuck the MPAA" or "Fuck Kazaa" or "Fuck Bearshare" or "Fuck (anything you don't like at all, including first posts or iguanas)" Seeing RIAA v. Audiogalaxy become another notch in the RIAA's Championship belt (wrestling fans, take note: the RIAA is a heel), and the RIAA take aim at FastTrack (with a pending summary judgement undoubtedly going the RIAA's way, based on the past precedents of Napster and Madster/Aimster), I feel I can't just sit here and do nothing.
But what is there for a non-programmer, or a non-lawyer, in the case of the EFF, to do? How do our voices count?
Make an online petiton? That is about as useful as peeing in the shower.
Hack the RIAA website? Again, I ain't a computer programmer, though I know my way around one.
File a lawsuit? I haven't the financial resources to attack the RIAA's bevy of financial lawyers.
Keep downloading music? This one disturbs me. I bet a lot of people think of this as some sort of protest, the equivalent of sticking your middle finger out at Hilary Rosen. But the problem is that, in both the short and the long run, it does nothing to change what is an inevitable march on our civil liberties by her spawns of Satan.
Here's the payoff:
I brought up an idea in one of the news posts. We should start filing support briefs - I've heard them called "friends of the court" briefs, as well as an "amicus brief" (NOTE: I'm assuming they're roughly the same thing - Someone should call me on it if they're not). I hope that at least one ZP member is a lawyer, or at least in law school, and that they would help in the crafting of such a document. wiggum has already said he'd look into it, and hopefully he's doing so, with my thanks. I would do whatever I can to help in this, and in any other way which would allow those who can't write their own programs, hack into websites, or write law briefs to do their part in this Celebrity Deathmatch. I didn't say it was a great idea, but I do think it's a good start.
If anyone likes this idea, or has another idea, speak up. Remember, WE HAVE, AS OF THIS WRITING, 123,386 MEMBERS. It's about time we mobilize instead of bitching and moaning on the fucking newsboards.
Peace.