VeeshanVault

This was probably just talked about on another topic, but I think it's worth mentioning again.

I heard a story on "All Things Considered" on NPR (I love NPR) tonight about the Recording Industry Association of America being rather successful lately in busting peer-to-peer MP3 file sharers. The synopsis on the story is on their website, with audio, at http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/rundow ... te=current. The synopsis reads:

"The Recording Industry Association of America announces it will launch a campaign Thursday that targets individuals who trade a "substantial" amount of copyright music online through peer-to-peer networks. The RIAA says it expects to file hundreds of lawsuits in the next few months."

They go into detail on the story about the way the RIAA is able to do this, and it sounds very legit to me. Apparently this tactic is so effective that they believe it will put a major dent in MP3 trading, if not seriously slowing it down permanently. At least in the way we're used to now.

So is this something to be concerned about, if you're a user sharing thousands of MP3's? I'm not sure.

Operation "Shock & Awe" in the information war has begun

I predict that the RIAA's tactict will backfire after they sue hundreds teenage kids.

I'm not worried.

DOWN WITH THE MAN! FIGHT THE POWER! DOWNLOAD THE LATEST AVRIL LAVIGNE ALBUM TO SHOW THE FASCISTS WE AREN'T PLAYING THEIR "SPEND MONEY ON THINGS WE WANT TO OWN" GAME ANYMORE!

If you haven't already downloaded the new Avril Lavigne album, your place is not in the revolution.

Not worried cause I don't use Morpheus or anything of the like!

Kazaa Lite is your friend! I love it, they will never take it away from me!!! Of course I use it more for porn and movies than I do for music.

Don't worry, Russia has sortied all of the motherland subs and diesels, but won't make it to Iceland in time for a realistic tactical strike.

I don't use peer-to-peer trading things like napster or whatever. So not worried in the least.

However, if they start going after Usenet posters/groups.. That would start to suck.

In Communist Russia, you don't download illegal music. Illegal Music downloads you!

http://www.overnet.com>KazzaLite


I could nevar live without this.... anything you need, it's here.

Asheran Mojomaster wrote:I love it, they will never take it away from me!!! Of course I use it more for porn and movies than I do for music.

Amen!
They failed to shut down Kazaa and others, now they wanna go after the fiends that share. Good fucking luck! They really think we care about people (look up Tommy Mottola) and companies losing millions?

I would take a dump in front of AOL Time Warner if they lose...
IfI'mevercokedup

they wanna abuse dmca laws to break people's privacy? fine then, i just wont buy anything from the riaa anymore, and will encourage everyone to do the same
or i can just sit back and wait for the backlash from hackers and the constitution to take care of them

your right to steal intellectual property is constitutionally protected?

kyoukan wrote:your right to steal intellectual property is constitutionally protected?

I think he was talking about his right to privacy. Like typically law enforcement requires a warrant to search your home/auto/computer/etc.

Aslanna wrote:I don't use peer-to-peer trading things like napster or whatever. So not worried in the least.

However, if they start going after Usenet posters/groups.. That would start to suck.

/agree

Usenet is the best source of movies, software, pr0n, cracks, or any other binary except maybe MP3s in which kazaa and WinMX are a bit speedier in getting what you want.

I'm amazed that usenet can get away with this. It will be a sad day if usenet is ever censored.

Fuck da popo

Aranuil wrote:

kyoukan wrote:your right to steal intellectual property is constitutionally protected?

I think he was talking about his right to privacy. Like typically law enforcement requires a warrant to search your home/auto/computer/etc.

Aranuil wrote:

kyoukan wrote:your right to steal intellectual property is constitutionally protected?

I think he was talking about his right to privacy. Like typically law enforcement requires a warrant to search your home/auto/computer/etc.

I remember this coming up back when people outside the "underground" began trading them. It goes along with how any ISP that your EMail travels through (server-wise) could read your email. Now the chances of this happening were virtually nil, but one small ISP I worked for in the past used to open random emails with attachments of a certain size or higher whether they were sent to our users or not. Why? Because any information that his server is made to process/transfer is basically "his" for a short time.

Now, I am not saying I AGREE with this, but that is one way that fighting the ISP's will help RIAA rather than going after the users themselves.

It wouldn't be theirs any more than a letter going through the post office belongs to the postal service, they are a carrier and nothing more.

ahhh, but it basically WAS seen that way. This was about 7+ years ago though.

I am not saying that I ever agreed with it, but I am just saying that in the past, the ISP basically had more power over what a person did online.