RIAA Dumps MediaSentry, But Hires DtecNet Instead
from the the-king-is-dead,-long-live-the-king dept
Over the past few days there's been a lot of attention paid to the news that the RIAA has ended its relationship with MediaSentry, the highly controversial firm that the RIAA used to try to find those involved in file sharing. There have been various lawsuits questioning MediaSentry's techniques -- and the sheer number of falsely identified people certainly suggested pretty strongly that the company wasn't doing a particularly good job. Of course, with the RIAA's "new strategy" of abandoning lawsuits in favor of having ISPs be their enforcers, the record labels still need a company to come up with whatever flimsy evidence it can find. So, don't think the ending of the relationship means that the RIAA has stopped monitoring file sharing. Instead, it's simply switched to a new company: DtecNet out of Copenhagen.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Or did DtecNet recruitment procedures require hiring individual with the most experience and best relationship with the RIAA and hence resulted in hiring nearly all the MediaSentry staff?
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re: bikey
- Mark Getty, chairman of Getty Images
i first saw that statement quoted in "steal this film II"
http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2
it really sums up this whole "war against piracy" thing pretty nicely. having power means playing games to get control of natural and finite resources. people, governments, armies, and companies have been doing this since the dawning of life itself. in this game, keeping those resources finite is at least as important as obtaining the resources themselves.
in essence, we are are talking about the means of production. mass production and mass distribution favor small numbers of large companies, unless the finished product and its distribution are digital. when everything is digital, the rules change.
the problem with digital goods is that since anything digital can be reproduced effortlessly by anyone with a computer, the old rules of mass production and distribution no longer apply and the resource game is now in a state of flux.
richard stallman discusses this in a rather grim depiction of this digital resource game:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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Put your money where your mouth is
Support the "I not BUYING DRM, nor OVERLY PRICED cr@p, and as long as the RIAA and BIG MEDIA peruse the notion that the need to LIE, STEAL and CHEAT the REAL ARTIST"
... support independent artist
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Just ask them to show 1 occurance where you shared CC material.
Motion to deny summary judgment.
I beat them, so can you.
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RIAA........
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Riaa music and movies
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