In a discussion with the Chronicle of Higher Education, an RIAA representative describes how they find and attack music sharers. Here’s how they do it:
1. They go to a computer.
2. They start LimeWire.
3. They look for a popular song (I hear the kids are into rap so let’s assume they look for “Gonna Gat-Cap Your Ass and Shake Your Milk” by Souljah Bizzoy so assume they are looking for that song.)
4. They find people sharing the music.
5. They right click to see who’s sharing the file.
6. They contact the person’s ISP i.e. your ISP.
7. You make boom-boom in your pants while you eat doughnuts, oblivious to the RIAA’s evil intent.
8. They sue you.
8. The RIAA rep goes back to their cave/hollow tree and moults, eating the transparent carapace and forming a new outer shell over the course of three days.
9. Repeat.
This process assumes a few important facts: A) You are still using LimeWire and B) You are so devastatingly retarded that you cannot keep your privates on the inside of your clothes. Therefore, if the RIAA catches you sharing music, you probably deserve the lawsuit.
I interviewed for a company called “media defender” a while back, and it’s more elaborate than even that.
They upload fake files, you see an IPOD instead of the song you want to hear, and they get all your info.
They have slews of 12 dollar an hour idiots uploading fake files, taking your info, then give it to the riaa
classy.
That’s pretty simplistic, and probably not entirely correct. A quick study of the lawsuit between the RIAA and Tanya Anderson will confirm that. I understand you’re trying to be funny, but it’s not funny to the hundreds of people that have been falsely accused by the RIAA.