{"id":1373,"date":"2003-09-05T22:47:40","date_gmt":"2003-09-06T02:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/05\/riaa-offers-file-swappers-amnesty\/"},"modified":"2003-09-05T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2003-09-06T02:47:40","slug":"riaa-offers-file-swappers-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/05\/riaa-offers-file-swappers-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"RIAA Offers File-Swappers Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a975'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will reportedly<br \/>\nannounce an amnesty program next week aimed at individuals willing to<br \/>\nadmit having downloaded and shared copyrighted music files. Those who<br \/>\nsign the amnesty form&#8211;admitting their past activity and promising to<br \/>\ndelete copyrighted files and not to engage in future illegal file<br \/>\ntrading&#8211;would be shielded from prosecution by the RIAA. The deal will<br \/>\nnot be available to any of the more than 1,500 people for whom the RIAA<br \/>\nhas already served subpoenas. Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic<br \/>\nFrontier Foundation noted that because the RIAA does not represent all<br \/>\ncopyright owners, the agreement would not protect individuals from<br \/>\nprosecution by other copyright holders. The amnesty offer, von Lohmann<br \/>\nsaid, is &#8220;not the kind of agreement that most people&#8217;s lawyers will<br \/>\nembrace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like something out of the old Soviet Bloc to me&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/mld\/siliconvalley\/6694357.htm\">from SiliconValley.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will reportedly announce an amnesty program next week aimed at individuals willing to admit having downloaded and shared copyrighted music files. Those who sign the amnesty form&#8211;admitting their past activity and promising to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/05\/riaa-offers-file-swappers-amnesty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}