Posted on 08/16/2002 5:00:15 PM PDT by TechJunkYard
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Geez... anyone can look that stuff up...
[kdj@Sarah kdj]$ host listen4ever.com listen4ever.com has address 61.136.61.40 [kdj@Sarah kdj]$ whois 61.136.61.40@whois.apnic.net [whois.apnic.net] inetnum: 61.136.61.0 - 61.136.61.255 netname: TJDT-BUREAU-TJ descr: Data Communication Bureau , Tianjin descr: HeBei Dict descr: Tianjin city country: CN admin-c: HZ19-AP tech-c: HZ19-AP mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET-TJ changed: lilulu@public.tpt.tj.cn 20010809 source: APNIC person: huang zheng address: 76 NO, ShiZiLin Street ,HeBei district of Tianjin,China country: CN phone: +86-22-24459190 fax-no: +86-22-24454499 e-mail: apnic@swd.online.tj.cn nic-hdl: HZ19-AP mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET-TJ changed: apnic@swd.online.tj.cn 20011127 source: APNIC
This has the logic of suing the phone companies for people using their telephone to conduct illegal business or suing the postal service for people mailing and receiving stolen goods.
How about if we sue the record companies for selling music with profane lyrics to kids?
That won't stop the control-freaks of the planet from trying.
Dimwits.
Agreed: this suit is going nowhere. But it might be fun to watch.
You've got that right. Even with the royalties they make on BLANK tape and audio CDs and $20 for a disc of trash, they're still not satisfied.
Gee, and all this time I thought it was because the "music" they produce is crap.
Make it clear to Hollyweird that, if they are afraid of losing some business to Internet "piracy," fighting their consumers will cost them all business!
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