Housing Office:

...We have received information from the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies, that you have utilized the below-referenced IP address at the noted date and time to offer downloads of copyrighted content through a "peer-to-peer" service, including such titles as:

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside

Madonna - Music

Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want

Sting - Desert Rose

Dixie Chicks - Cowboy Take Me Away

Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You

IP Address: ...

IP Port: 9348

Network: BTPeers

Protocal: BitTorrent

The Distribution of unauthorized copies of copyrited television shows, music or movies consistutes copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 106(3) and or Section 512(c). This conduct may also violate your license agreetment as well as the laws of other countries, international law, and/or treaty obligations.

I was RIAA'ed!!!

If you've been living under a rock for the past couple years, basically the RIAA is the organization that loves to sue people left and right. Sometimes they're justified, but most of the time they are just being retarded. Take these cases for example:

• RIAA believes that ripping music CDs to iPods is illegal »
• RIAA believes the Sirius satellite radio network owes them 30% of revenues »
• RIAA uses children against mother »
• RIAA bans telling friends about songs »
• RIAA sues hundreds of lyrics sites for copyright infringement

Obviously in my case, they were justified; I was downloading music illegally. I'm actually lucky as fuck that I didn't get slapped with a nasty fine. And I'm thankful.

But I still think the RIAA is a fucking waste.

I mean, instead of spending millions of dollars on crucifing the common consumer, the RIAA should think of ways to embrace today's technology to make a legitimate profit.

Like remember the VCR? Initially consumers used it to record television shows so they could watch at their own leisure. When this first came out, the entertainment industry was scared shitless! But after losing in the Supreme Court, entertainment companies changed their business models to embrace this VCR technology. And what happened?

Pre-recorded video cassettes became a multi-million dollar industry that easily surpassed box office ticket sales.

Its not rocket science. But for some retarded reason the RIAA still likes to make things harder than it should be.

Anyways, time to buy some iTunes.

(Sidenote: I got caught downloading from torrentspy.com)