Comcast sued for disclosing customer info

Seattle-area woman accuses company of handing over her name and contact information to RIAA.

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[dinkelburt]

Yeah buddy!

Comcast just keeps making more and more friends lately haven't they?

[atariboy]

Scanning on Comcast

I have seen scans from the likes of BigChampagne almost continuously. If I can detect that, of course Comcast knows about it. Comcast apparently could care less about customer privacy.

what is service?

And this is suppose to be surprising? Comcast charges their
customers for their own taxes. There was a charge on my bill
over the past year now, that after looking it up via a search
engine, it turns out they are charging their customers for their
own taxes.. thus receiving enough money from the customer to
pay their taxes with enough to make a profit off it.

outta be a tool....

There should be some tool, some way to detect whether a particular song is connected in any way to the RIAA and thus allow the music downloaded to make an informed decision, as to whether he or she wants to roll the dice and take a chance, or whether to avoid stuff regulated by the RIAA. Does the RIAA control all musical works, or just some?

Most.

The RIAA probably controls the vast majority of music on the P2P networks--they represent the lion's share of America's recording companies and those who distribute within the US.

Music never released to the US market is likely safe from the RIAA, but keep in mind that other countries have their own recording company associations.

And not all artists use a recording company, either. Some of them use a P2P network as a kind of advertising vehicle; let you hear their music and hope you'll pay for it or go to one of their concerts. Unfortunately, I have no idea as to any way to quickly tell the difference, or any ideas on how to create such a tool. Copyrights do not have to be registered with the Copyright Office to be legal.

mp3s and John 8:9

I guess she who Comcasts the first Stones is without gelt ...