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10 Jul, 2003
Hmmm, I seem to have grassed myself up to the RIAA. Here's the full text of an email I've just sent. Let's see what (if anything) happens ...
From: iain@deepsea.force9.co.uk
To: cdreward@riaa.com
Subject: Many gigabytes of pirated musicHello
I have several gigabytes of mp3s on my computer at home. Until recently it was comprised almost exclusively of music ripped from my own CDs and it was purely sitting on my server to make it easier for my wife & me to listen to our music on our computers.
Since you've started your infamous "let's sue everyone" threats, however, I've decided I'm going to make all of my tracks available to anyone who wants them, and I'm now a happy user of various P2P networks. I'm uploading anything up to a gigabyte or more of music a day, and what's more I will *never* buy another CD from any of your member companies until you grow up and start realising that just as home taping didn't "kill music" in the 70s, neither will file-sharing.
I'm sending this email just so you realise quite how counter-productive your actions are becoming. To quote a very famous track from an artist signed by one of your member companies:
"There's a million of us just like me
who cuss like me; who just don't give a fuck like me
who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me"You're going to lose. Have fun :-)
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