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                        JohnA
                                              Of Hackweiser, Global Domination at its Finest.
 

*IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE SURFERS*
The site you came for can be found HERE.  However, please take some time to
hear what I have to say, thanks.

*IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR*
The original page was renamed and placed HERE.
No damage was done to the server and no sensitive information was published.
I patched the hole I came through (it was not RDS/msadc), and you should be safe now.
I apologize that it had to be you, but like I said, NO damage was done.
If you would like more information on how to secure this server I would be
happy to help you, email me HERE

What is Napster?  Napster is (or soon if you don't help join the cause; 'was') a breakthrough program that binds several computers together into a "Mega Server" that provides thousands of MP3's to its participants.  When a user signs onto Napster his computer becomes a part of that "Mega Server" and gives other people access to his MP3 collection in exchange for access to theirs.
Napster is the biggest and most powerful search engine for MP3's and is in my opinion one of the Internet's greatest creations and achievements.

The RIAA, Metallica, and Dr. Dre have been and still are filling legal suits against Napster and its users simply because it can be used to find "illegal" music. This is one of the most idiotic things I have ever seen.  Napster is a resource, just like Yahoo or the internet.  If I use a search engine, Infoseek for example, and look for kiddy porn, I bet ill find it.  That's illegal, why not sue Infoseek?  Same thing with Napster.   The RIAA, Metallica, and Dr. Dre did this for money, but its ironic that this will make them loose not only more money but fans as well.

I would like to include a very good quote from pimpshiz (another napster freedom fighter) that expresses another side of this whole mess, that of the art and those who create it:
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"Music is art, an extension of ourselves. Major label record companies do not sell art, they sell 50 cents of plastic at $15 because they see music as an industry they can control. Maybe 5% of your $15 will end up going to the artist. The artists (Metallica, Dre) that complain about napster obviously care a great deal about the money involved with their art, rather than the art itself. Perhaps because they are also producers, in the business of selling 50 cents of plastic at $15? Maybe.

The RIAA is a joke. the RIAA does not represent your favorite music artists. They represent rich record executives. These are the fat cats who make profit from the other 95% of cd sales. These people are so filthy rich, the only thing they know how to do is squabble over how rich they are and how they don't want anything to happen to their wealth and power. There's more to life than money fellas. Also may I say I applaud the lawsuit bought by 26 states against the big 5 music labels for cd price fixing and violating anti-trust laws. This is a great positive step towards decentralization of power in these companies.

"This I say to you, what I say is true: emotions aren't a product to sell and cannot be consumed." (-Jesse Michaels) "

                                                                                                                                                                        -Pimpshiz
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Im not asking you to start defacing web sites to spread the message, But here are some things YOU can do to help and become a Napster freedom fighter!

1)Simply write/email your local congress person and express your concern and let them know that you want this fixed!

2)Boycott the bands who are doing this!

3)Read into the Napster matter yourself, you be the judge, and take a stand!  Im not going to tell you what's right or wrong, these are just my opinions.

4)Tell your friends.

5)Praise/support and email the following groups, They SUPPORT Napster.

3D House of Beefl
Anti-pop Consortium
Ben Folds Five
Chuck D
Billy Corgan-(Smashing Pumpkins)
The Coup
Cypress Hill
Danielle Howle
DJ Assault
DJ Keoki
DJ Spooky
Dr. Octagon
Elwood
Eve 6l
Face to Face
The Get Up Kids
Less Than Jakel
Limp Bizkit
Marianne Faithfull
Mix Master Mike
Mustard Plug
Nextmen
Peter Searcy
The Offspring
The Pilfers
Princess Superstar
Problem Addict
Radiohead
Sister Machine Gun
Social Distortion
Sunny Day Real Estate
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thanks, I hope you will do what is best not only for the internet but society as well, I appreciate your help!

-JohnA
 

Here is a message my little brother (12) received just because he had downloaded "Enter Sandman" by Metallica. 1 month before they filled their case.  What's a 12 year old boy to do when he gets something like this?
 

Notice of Alleged Infringement and Counter Notification
 

Notification Of Allegation Of Infringement

The band Metallica has requested that your access to Napster be terminated
for alleged copyright infringement. Please read this entire notice carefully.

On Thursday, May 4 the band Metallica delivered to Napster a computerized
list of 311,377 user names alleged to be infringing Metallica's copyrights.
Metallica explained that these user names had made available for others to
download materials that Metallica claims infringed its copyrights. Metallica
has requested that, in accordance with Napster's copyright policy, these
users be banned from the Napster service.

If your Napster software redirected you to this page it is because Napster
has received an allegation from Metallica (and its related businesses
Creeping Death Music and E/M Ventures) that your user name or handle made
available through the Napster system allegedly infringing materials.
Metallica stated to Napster that it considers infringing materials to be:
 

"only the songs and recordings originally included on commercially released
Metallica albums, and [to] not include so-called bootleg Metallica
recordings. Metallica makes no claim of copyright infringement with respect
to recordings of their songs made by fans at Metallica live concerts."
Metallica has provided Napster with your user name asserting that you were a
person who was making available the types of allegedly infringing materials
described above.

Due to the nature of the documents delivered by Metallica and the methods
used in collecting Metallica's information, Napster cannot itself determine
whether or not the files that you were sharing fell within the category
described above that Metallica claims are infringing. However, under the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Section 512(c)(3)(vi), Napster
will disable access when, as here, it has received a notice from a copyright
holder claiming under penalty of perjury that you have made available
material infringing his rights.

Policy for Counter Notification

In compliance with the DMCA, 17 U.S.C. Section 512(g), Napster will reinstate
any user who disputes Metallica's allegation of infringement via a sworn
"counter notification," and who after that counter notification is provided to
Metallica, is not sued by Metallica within ten (10) business days.

In order to submit a counter notification, you must certify, under penalty of
perjury that you have a good faith belief that you were disabled as a result
of Metallica's mistake or misidentification of files you shared as
infringing. Your account will remain blocked unless and until you submit a
sworn statement of all the information contained in the "counter
notification" form found below. That form must include your full real name,
address, Napster user name, and your consent to being sued by Metallica in the
federal court where you reside.

If you supply a "counter notification" form, we will send a copy of that
"counter notification" to Metallica. We will restore access to your account
within 10 to 14 business days thereafter, unless during that time our
Designated Copyright Agent receives notice from Metallica that it has filed a
legal action against you seeking a court order to restrain you from engaging
in illegal activity.

If you believe you have not in any way infringed the copyrights of "Metallica
songs or recordings originally included on commercially released Metallica
albums," and that you were designated by Metallica by mistake or
misidentification, you may choose to submit the following sworn
counter notification.

 Counter Notification Form

ATTENTION: THIS FORM IS A LEGALLY BINDING DOCUMENT

1.  I hereby state under penalty of perjury that I have a good faith belief
that access to my account has been blocked as a result of mistake or
misidentification by Metallica of allegedly infringing material made
available by me through the Napster service, and that I have not made
available through the Napster service any songs and recordings originally
included on commercially released Metallica albums.
 

I agree to the above and certify that my above statement is true:

Initial Here
 

2a. True Legal Name

    First
M
Last

 b. Address

    Street Address

    City
State
Zip
 

    Country
 c. Email Address

 d. Phone

 e. Napster User name
 

3. I hereby state that I consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District
Court for the judicial district in which my address is located or, if my
address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which
Napster may be found, and I will accept service of process from the
complaining party who notified Napster of the alleged infringement or an
agent of such person.

Initial Here
 

4. Your electronic signature
Please re-enter your full, true legal name to electronically sign this
document.

   Full Legal Name
 

I agree the above is accurate under penalty of perjury. Additionally, I agree
that by submitting this form I am signing a binding legal document.
 
 
 
 
 

    Copyright 1999-2000 Napster, Inc.
All rights reserved.
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Note:
Hmmm, that "Free Napster" pic I made didn't turn out as well as I hoped it would.  Please submit any cool
or suitable pics you have made or found on the net.  Send em HERE.

From the inbox:
I got this the day after my previous tag, Thanks m0rb!   If anyone else has something they want to say that's important, well written, supports the cause, or expresses a riotous reason, please feel free to email me and I might post it!
 

Hey just emailing to say that the tag on www.*.com was one of the most
intelligent ones I have seen. You are right up there with GForce Pak and
Pimpshiz. I hate looking at unintelligeble rants that go absolutely nowhere.
I frigging write articles up all day long about this company was hacked, and
this person did it and yadadada and you do not know how annoying it gets
when having to read something like: Dud3 y0ur s3rv34 sux. H4 h4 I 4m c001.
Gets on my nerves after awhile. Lol I have never seen that letter from
Metallica either. Too ridiculous. How pissed was Lars at the MTV VMAs when
Sean Davis came out whering a Metallica t-shirt. Too funny. Oh crap now I'm
starting to rant. later dude. nice work. m0rb

From the channel:
And yet again, some more funny/stupid quotes I logged  from the channel, sorry didny have enough time to log any great ones, maybe next time :-).

[09:38] *** Topic is 'root-shell-hackers | Sexual questions ARE Allowed to be Asked, and we WILL help'
[09:38] *** Set by dobe on Wed Sep 13 00:58:45

[06:34] <Lynxwolf> blunts are good!
[06:35] <tcp_hype> weed is for dirty mexicans
[06:35] <TotalPh33r> lol

[06:37] <tcp_hype> I ain't about to get stupid on expensive drugs for people that have money
[06:37] <NetLynx> i like cocacola.
[06:37] <tcp_hype> cat tranquilizers

[18:24] <Scurvy> I was dating an 8 year old when I was 23.
[18:24] <JohnA> what?
[18:24] <frame> sicko

[19:49] * Death_Bytes is burnin cd's
[19:50] <frame> I burn my cd's outside
[19:50] <frame> the fumes and smoke bother my coworkers
[19:50] <JohnA> hehe
[19:50] <frame> and my boss is still pissed at me for burning down half the office

[20:15] <frame> tNc: Windows isn't a virus. Viruses do something.

[20:46] *** Starman_Jones has quit IRC (Ping timeout)
[20:47] *** Starman_Jones has joined #*
[20:48] <Starman_Jones> FUCKING SERVER
[20:48] <Starman_Jones> IS FUCKING GAY
[20:48] <Starman_Jones> QUTI DISCONNECTING ME
[20:48] <Starman_Jones> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[20:48] <frame> hahaha
[20:48] <modify> ya SJ
[20:48] <modify> its your firewall or your anti hacking software
[20:48] <modify> its not accepting icmp pings
[20:48] <modify> it filters or blocks them
[20:48] <modify> so it pings timeouts
[20:48] <modify> and logs you out
[20:48] <modify> no need to get all mad..
[20:48] <frame> you leet m0f0

*You got greets this time B0OB :-)*
[21:07] <B0OB> of course i dont get greets hehe but i get my convo in there about sassy hehe

*You gotta love our server, its soooo forgiving*
[06:26] *** initd_ was kicked by *.*.net (Flooding (Limit is 8 lines per 9 seconds))
[07:37] *** stain was kicked by *.*.net (Flooding (Limit is 8 lines per 9 seconds))
[07:37] <rootproc> used to be 3 lines in 3 secs
[07:37] <bi0cide>  god damn it *.*.net!@#

*Modify just finnished telling us how you can escape to a bash promt when a setuid program calls for the more command and then this happens*
[21:30] *** modify was kicked by *.*.net (Flooding (Limit is 8 lines per 9 seconds))
[21:30] *** modify has joined #*
[21:31] <B0OB> LOL
[21:31] <modify> kick me off you beotch

[21:33] <JohnA-ReallyAway> Hootah: Im dcc'ing you the screen shot you asked for...
[21:33] <JohnA-ReallyAway> Accept!
[21:36] <JohnA-ReallyAway> accept hooyah!
[21:36] <JohnA-ReallyAway> You know you want to
[21:36] <JohnA-ReallyAway> damn it
[21:36] <rootproc> sounds like a religion
[21:37] <rootproc> "Accept hooyah or be doomed to eternal damnation!"

[22:02] <gat0r> Did you hear about Microsoft's new hard drive? It
[22:02] <gat0r> has five millisecond access, fits in a PC-Card
[22:02] <gat0r> slot, and has UNLIMITED space.
[22:02] <gat0r> Unfortunately, they haven't finished formatting it
[22:02] <gat0r> yet.
 

[21:14] *** JohnA has quit IRC (Quit: Sir. Haxalot)
 
 

Causes I support:
hacker (death to the mpaa), pimpshiz (free Napster!), RSH, Hackweiser (Global Domination/Carnivore), GForce (Kashmir) and all the old peeps at #bsrf.
Dont feel bad if you got left out, im sure ill remember you next time  ;o).

            Next tag is gonna be carnivore related.  The more I read about it the more it scares me.
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                                                                    Thats all folks!