A Juggalo's Three 6 Mafia Torrenting Gave a Bar 500 Copyright Violations - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE]Three 6 Mafia are the greatest rap group of all time, though someone who attended a juggalo Valentine's show at Mac's Bar in Lansing, Michigan may have felt the need to celebrate them in a chaotic and damaging way. The venerable music venue received 500 DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notices last week (essentially just cease-and-desist letters) after an unknown patron downloaded Three 6's full discography on the bar's Wi-Fi. The too-good-to-be-true tweet that broke this news is below.[/QUOTE] [media]https://twitter.com/SkottyBell/status/966831820200439808[/media] [QUOTE]The tweet is by Scott Bell, talent buyer for Mac's and tour manager for Scranton punks The Menzingers. Speaking to Noisey, Bell describes coming home from tour managing in Europe to "this big white box. I was like, 'oh did Comcast send us a new router?' No, they sent us 500 pages of the same DMCA notice." Bell notes that the incident happened during a local event for juggalos, which he says isn't all that weird of an occurrence. "The whole hipster obsession with Insane Clown Posse is not so much of a fad in Michigan," he says, "it’s just another brand of music." We rang up Bell from Lansing to get the full story on what exactly went down and how exactly juggalos were involved.[/QUOTE] [url]https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/article/wj473n/three-6-mafia-juggalos-macs-bar-copyright-interview[/url] [video]https://youtu.be/vBjzAdpZzf0[/video]

Comcast probably spent more on that block of printing paper than it'd have cost to buy the entire three 6 Mafia discography. :v:

[QUOTE=nox;53163211]Comcast probably spent more on that block of printing paper than it'd have cost to buy the entire three 6 Mafia discography. :v:[/QUOTE] The block of paper has more artistic merit than their entire discography too.

Is there any sort of legal protection for people providing public WiFi in cases like these? I would live in fear every day that some idiot who listens to Three 6 Mafia would come to my public venue to torrent shit.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;53163230]Is there any sort of legal protection for people providing public WiFi in cases like these? I would live in fear every day that some idiot who listens to Three 6 Mafia would come to public venue to torrent shit.[/QUOTE] I would be more concerned with people using my public WiFi for dangerously illegal activities.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;53163230]Is there any sort of legal protection for people providing public WiFi in cases like these? I would live in fear every day that some idiot who listens to Three 6 Mafia would come to public venue to torrent shit.[/QUOTE] There should be but, honestly, given the RIAA's tactics? I'd be surprised if we did have one. I mean, shit, they sue printers and grandmas for millions based on little more than an IP address.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;53163230]Is there any sort of legal protection for people providing public WiFi in cases like these? I would live in fear every day that some idiot who listens to Three 6 Mafia would come to public venue to torrent shit.[/QUOTE] Considering how outdated the law is I think there is simply noooo way that there is

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;53163230]Is there any sort of legal protection for people providing public WiFi in cases like these? I would live in fear every day that some idiot who listens to Three 6 Mafia would come to public venue to torrent shit.[/QUOTE] No clue in the US but in Germany we actually finally have laws for that, took quite some fighting and adjustments though. Knowing how evil the RIAA is this might not end well for the Bar though. Funny thing which might not apply in the US, not sure. Torrenting or other P2P methods are actually punished way harder then a simple download would be because you are actively sharing the illegal stuff.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;53163230]Is there any sort of legal protection for people providing public WiFi in cases like these? I would live in fear every day that some idiot who listens to Three 6 Mafia would come to public venue to torrent shit.[/QUOTE] in sweden they have to prove it was specifically you. them having your IP address means nothing.

Reminds me of how about a year or so ago my grandmother got a warning in the mail for torrenting Wreck-It-Ralph. The thing is my grandmother does not have a computer or a tablet or anything like that. Only reason she even HAS internet was because she signed up for a cable/phone/internet package without consulting us first, and some slice of shit took it upon themselves to torrent a fucking Disney movie via her wireless(a router was included). And then a few months ago when someone got on MY wireless and freakin' looked up child porn. Found THAT out when the NYPD just showed up at my door stating as much. Thankfully my innocence was proven due to the fact that my brother forgot to password protect our connection when we got a new cable modem and as such someone got on our connection. For the record, its protected now and we haven't had any incidents since. Getting the blame for someone else's crime ain't cool.

Reminds me of this post I read where someone torrented the entire discography of The Doors(I think) and Comcast sent them an individual letter for each song explaining how they torrented it.He showed that eventually whoever was sending the letters ran out of colored ink because instead of the colored logo it was just black and white :v:

An IP address in itself in practically all countries isn't sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction, if you have a wireless router you could simply say it might have been hacked which is next to impossible to prove it wasn't. Of course things rarely go that far, most companies, anti-piracy organizations and law firms resort to scary sounding letters, often demanding large sums of money which should simply be ignored, the only way for them to get a conviction is for your devices to be searched which they're not going to do except for suspected major distributors, even then if you're a major pirate you should be encrypting everything.

[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;53163227]The block of paper has more artistic merit than their entire discography too.[/QUOTE] You wanna get hit, kid?

[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;53163227]The block of paper has more artistic merit than their entire discography too.[/QUOTE] Anyone who rated this funny - go listen to mystic stylez and then kick yourself down a flight of stairs for being so disgustingly and completely wrong

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;53163230]Is there any sort of legal protection for people providing public WiFi in cases like these? I would live in fear every day that some idiot who listens to Three 6 Mafia would come to my public venue to torrent shit.[/QUOTE] I'd imagine that there would be. Otherwise, couldn't you torrent a billion things through McDona'ds wifi and get them sued for trillions?

[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;53163227]The block of paper has more artistic merit than their entire discography too.[/QUOTE] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mull015Rgcs[/media] shut up

[QUOTE=Systema;53171745][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mull015Rgcs[/media] shut up[/QUOTE] At least you could've posted Mystic Stylez or Underground Vol.1 1991-1994

[QUOTE=SteakStyles;53163538] And then a few months ago when someone got on MY wireless and freakin' looked up child porn. Found THAT out when the NYPD just showed up at my door stating as much. Thankfully my innocence was proven due to the fact that my brother forgot to password protect our connection when we got a new cable modem and as such someone got on our connection. For the record, its protected now and we haven't had any incidents since. Getting the blame for someone else's crime ain't cool.[/QUOTE] That's what I would say too... If I was [B][I]GUILTY.[/I][/B] He's just trying to solidify his alibi.