What I Get For Listening to Kid Rock
Holy shit I’m an idiot. My internet use was suspended for a day – a fate I hope none of you know.
Copyright Violation Notice
Daniel Scully,
You are receiving this notice because SUNY New Paltz received a notification of claimed copyright infringement (unauthorized sharing of music, movies or other copyright protected material) concerning a computer whose network and internet access was authorized with your New Paltz Computer User ID. (Please see details below.) As a result of this claim, the law requires us to disable your network connection. In order to resolve this issue, please respond in writing by using attached response form.
The “Infringement Notice1 Response” form is used to inform the college that you are currently not sharing unauthorized copyrighted material and/or dispute the copyright holder’s claim.
Please return the completed and signed form to the Computer Services office located in HAB50 (Haggerty Administration Building) Upon receipt and review of your response to this copyright infringement notice, Internet access will be restored. Please note that further notices will be referred to Student Affairs for disciplinary action.
List of infringing content:
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Kid Rock Bawitdaba
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INFRINGEMENT DETAIL
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Infringing Work: Kid Rock Bawitdaba
First Found: 6 Apr 2008 01:05:43 EDT (GMT -0400)
Last Found: 6 Apr 2008 01:05:43 EDT (GMT -0400)
IP Address: 137.140.128.157
IP Port: 25525
Protocol: BitTorrent
Torrent InfoHash: 460E552DD8B2F10D8B7A1FF3557FAD1C4ABB8EAC
Containing file(s):
Kid Rock-Devil Without A CauseKid Rock – Bawitdaba.mp3 (6,413,711 bytes)
DMCA agent at SUNY New Paltz
You know, the worst part is probably that I really don’t feel any shame (about the Kid Rock thing). I really kinda like his music. C’mon Bawitaba rules, especially if you haven’t heard it in about a decade:
OK, maybe that wasn’t worth losing my internet connection for a day…
This also reminds me of another, cheerier, less internet-terminating email I received from the RIAA in November:
Dear registered user of the site What.cd,
We have recently been investigating the activities of the users of the
site http://www.what.cd/ and we have found that this site exists for the
sole purpose of music piracy.
Pirating music is a criminal offence and we believe it should be obvious
to you that the results outweigh the benefits – hard working artists
won’t be rewarded for their work and will stop producing music,
ultimately leading to a severely reduced selection of music both in the
shops and for download.
The RIAA had hoped that the disabling by the police of the large illegal
music site, Oink.cd, would stop a lot of people from engaging in piracy,
as they don’t want to be seen as criminals. However, this appears to
not be the case, as two large new sites have sprung up in its place.
This email is the final warning to all of you who were members of
Oink.cd and are current members of What.cd. If we find you to be
committing any more criminal acts of piracy then we will have to press
charges against you, as representatives of the major record companies of
America.
Yours Faithfully,
The RIAA
No joke, I think I’m finally done ripping people off. I hardly even listen to all the bullshit I download. Back to blowing all my money on CDs…
11/16/2008
[...] If this was a list of hotties from 1998, Ms. Anderson would rate a hell of a lot higher, but as we all know 1999 was the year of implantless Pam Anderson. Luckily, in the new millenium she put em back and made them even bigger! Not so luckily, she’s got Hep C. Good luck Mr. Rock. [...]