lol - the point is, they still win. 
but we donât lose anything⌠we donât pay for all the music weâve takenâŚ
yes⌠we win that battle⌠but they win the war⌠since all future releases wonât be sharedâŚ
We should wait dormant for a month or so then everyone in the world log back on at the same time and share :bad:
Mwhahaha hahahah hahaha (evil laugh fades into the night) haha
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Hmmm. When we met him, we never realised he was an insane criminal mastermind⌠
It is actually very technically easy to find out who you are through a file sharing program. All you do is connect to the person who has the illegal file, then do a netstat from the command line and get their IP. Then you could force the ISP to give you the name of who had the IP at the time, and sue them.
But I donât care at all. There are a hell of a lot of P2P users. 4 million would be about the number of people that fall into this âsevereâ category. It takes the RIAA about two weeks to prosecute the average p2p user.
4,000,000 x 2 = 8,000,000
8,000,000/52 = 153846
Therefore it would take the RIAA about 153,000 years to prosecute all of these users. I donât think thatâs going to happen, unless the RIAA are really cyborgs that live forever .
:bad:
I saw this on my local news last night. It made me angry because I only download music that I canât buy here in the US (well unless I have it imported and make myself pay twice as much for the cd).
Well anyway, I wonder if they can charge you for songs by bands that support file sharing. There are some out there. I mean it wouldnât make sense to sue if you shared music and the creator of the music didnât mind it being shared.
somebody once told me that it wasnât illegal to download the mp3âs if you actually owned the cdâŚwhen you bought the cd you were actually buying the SONGS not the piece of plastic
if this was true (sounds reasonable enough), how are they going to prove that the person doesnât actually own all the cdâs?
-teet
A lot of the mp3âs I have on my HD I also have the CDs for. But I got individual tracks because I like having a selection to listen to while Iâm doing stuff.
Well if you are sharing your files you are offering them to other people.
So even if you buy a cd, you are allowed to have the songs on your computer, but you arenât allowed to redistribute the songs at cost or for free.
That would most likely be their defense.
Oh, and another thing. Do they really think it is reasonable to buy an entire CD if say⌠you only liked 1 or 2 songs from that CD.
I donât think 1 or 2 songs is worth $17 USD (varies of course, but that is the common rate at stores around here)⌠sorry, but I donât think so.
Will the creators of the music create singles for each song on their CDs? Probably not, so where does that leave the people who like 1 or 2 songs?
It leaves them stuck with nothing to do but break the law :evil: (whether that be from borrowing a friends CD and copying the song, or downloading it)
*Originally posted by Soul *
**âIt would begin searching Internet file-sharing networks Thursday to identify music fans who offer âsubstantialâ collections of MP3 song files for downloading. It urged users to remove popular music-sharing software or adjust program settings to prevent such downloads.â
I think theyâre bluffing. How are they going to find out who people are through Kazaa?
- Soul :s: **
sony found me out, downloading the whole korn untouchables album just because i had sharing turned on. they sent an email to my boss. it was mainly a cease and desist email.
i desisted.
:-\
Hey pinx, it serves you right⌠didnât you know that the new Korn album was âuntouchableâ?
haha j/k
*Originally posted by ahmed *
**interesting, but i really donât think they really are gonna be able to track users⌠even if they did, avoiding being tracked is going to be as easy as selecting the âDisable sharing files with other usersâ feature⌠I realize that it would make it harder to find files on the network, but no oneâs going to get sues or will have to pay a single penny**
Yeah, like njs said, everytime you connect for an upload or download, your IP is broadcasted and its pretty easy to find it out. Then just call up the ISP and get the address of the user. My understanding is they are really only targeting the distrubitors, not the downloaders. I want to see them bust in on a distrubutor only to find a huge collection of CDs as well. Then they wouldnât be able to do anything because he owns all of the disks as well.
*Originally posted by njs12345 *
**Therefore it would take the RIAA about 153,000 years to prosecute all of these users. I donât think thatâs going to happen, unless the RIAA are really cyborgs that live forever. **
dont be silly. they just sue the arses of a few people and spread the word. they only need to make an example of a few people before the other start to get worried.
Good, theyâre only going after people who dl songs off kazaa. Glad I donât illegally dl songs off Kazaa
Theyâll never win. Theyâre just trying to scare people so theyâll stop dlâing.
there will always be an outlet for free media, the record companies should embrace it. I have more respect for artists that allow people to download their songs. They are the bands that I acutally buy the CDs of.
Now, weâve just got to wait a few hours before riaa.com gets hacked again. I wonder what itâll be this time. Maybe the hackers will make it so you can dl kazaa or songs right off their site. Thatâd be so cool.
