Petteri Pyyny
13 May 2003 15:57
The Recording Industry Association of America has admitted to sending at least two dozen DMCA case-and-desist letters last week to people who were sharing nothing illegal. RIAA claims the responsibility on a temporary worker, who was behind all the erroneous notices.
Probably the weirdest notice was sent to Speakeasy, the ISP providing services to Amigascene.org - a site ran by Amiga enthusiasts, consisting of nothing but legal, community created software and media. RIAA informed Speakeasy, that Amigascene.org's FTP site "offers approximately 0 sound files for download. Many of these files contain recordings owned by our member companies, including songs by such artists as Creed."
These kinds of mistakes are possible because RIAA doesn't require its "copyright enforcers", such as MediaForce, to actually listen to the infringing material before sending a cease-and-desist order.
Source:
News.com