Riaa's Various Tactics Against Us!

Ok, I found some of the referances to the news article about VARIOUS tactics being used against us:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...art.html?pg=12
Monsters of Rock
Meet the music industry agents that could ruin your downloading career.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/business/04MUSI.html
Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy
(requires free registering at New York Times)
(or varient of it at:)
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives...5/msg00021.html

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-999612.html
Labels aim to shiver pirates' timbers

http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15244
Broadchart acquires music piracy monitor NetPD
(Yet another sign you may not be safe in EUROPE either!)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30441.html
RIAA's Rosen 'writing Iraq copyright laws'
(Proof that even Iraq may not be safe from RIAA!)

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1470464/2...nkin_park.jhtml
Digital Decoys Are Making Frustrated Pirates Say 'Arrr'
03.11.2003

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll...ArtNo=304110473
The music police are playing a new, more threatening tune
(RIAA's long-term plans emerges...)

I want you to read these VERY closely -- especially WHO is saying WHAT.
Never heard of some of the people/companies?
Guess how many US politicians have. :(

Don't get mad, tell people about this, organize!

Interesting reads...I dunno how far the AA jackazzez will be able to get away with implementing the 'anti-piracy' software, as to me it appears to be borderline malicious attacks on end-users PCs. What's really sad is how some of those AA-affiliated companies are recruiting filesharers to host these files by paying them cash & prizes! What sellouts! As I said in a different post we live in a society that is ruled by Dollar Almighty. But so be it. On to my take on the fake file occurences, I began experiencing the nuisance of the faulty MP3s sometime in early 2002. They're normally found on the recent releases of most mainstream artists and redistributed in the form of either loopbacks, or "the screech" as I like to call it. For those who don't know what I'm referring to or if you've noticed this before & didn't know what was going on, it as described as the following:

1. Loopbacks - Let's say you're looking for a new album of a mainstream artist, for example Ludacris' Chicken & Beer. Upon downloading the album and sampling the tracks, you notice that ALL the tracks sound like his most recent video release of the hit song Pussy Poppin' except they don't play the entire track they just fade in and out to a certain verse in the track repeatedly.

Workaround - the little yellow pop-up window that displays the info regarding how many users have the track, the amount of bandwith, bitrate, etc. is VERY helpful and should be payed careful attention to. If you have a track listing for an album you're seeking its helpful to include along with it the time length for each track. Most users are quick to d/l the 128bit-rate tracks b/c they are the most widely accepted (but not usually the best in sound quality) and quickest sound types to d/l. If you have a time length for each track, and you're hunting for the 128, then normally the file size will usually look a similar to the track length (i.e. a song about 4:20 might have a file size around 4,365Kb, get it? For those who just gotta have the real deal 192kbps, using the same time of 4:20 may have a file size of 6,560 Kbps). This is where the yellow pop-up notifier is useful, if I'm d/l the INTRO to Ludacris album for example, which is entitled Southern Fried Intro, and the notifier tells me that the file is about 7,730Kb and has only a 128bit-rate, that indicates to me that this file is potentially fake; using the time length to bit-rate ratio this would mean that the track is at LEAST 7:30 long (I mean seriously, how many artists have intros that long & THAT large?! 12-inch tracks from the 60s & 70s maybe). When I've d/l these types of files 99% of the time my prediction is accurate. If possible instead of d/l a track from a group of users, try picking only a single user to d/l

2. "The screech" - differs from the loopback as using the bit-rate to file size ratio & time length factors aren't always useful. Using Luda's new album as the exhibit B, let's say you d/l what appears to be a legit track 'Hard Times', according to bit-rate, time length & file size. You sample it & then at ANY given point it's interrupted with a loud-azz screeching noise. The screeching will persist throughout the entire track.

Workaround - as far as pre-downloading is concerned there isn't one. Just trust your gut after analyzing a track's 'bio' after you d/l it, just scroll the seek bar on your MP3 player to the tail-end of the track to make sure that it's 'screech' free.

All in all, it just aint easy to d/l an album & burn it in 20 mins like days old. It seems the AA really wants to make us work for the freebies. Their 'fake file' tactics have me wonder to believe if the AA & the cronies they have employed think that the average file sharer's IQ is the same as their shoe size

The thing with this batle with the RIAA is somewhat pointless because it will be imediatly be undermined by the RIAA, i mean they have people examining the Kazza and other file sharing progamms, they have their people infiltrating the forums and network. Everything is too public for a stratigic defense. :unsure:

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Originally posted by Neo 721@23 October 2003 - 23:10
The thing with this batle with the RIAA is somewhat pointless because it will be imediatly be undermined by the RIAA, i mean they have people examining the Kazza and other file sharing progamms, they have their people infiltrating the forums and network. Everything is too public for a stratigic defense. :unsure:

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Well I guess I'm in for the long haul I guess b/c I'm one of the stubborn types, and I refuse to lose!! :swear:

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Originally posted by Neo 721@23 October 2003 - 18:10
The thing with this batle with the RIAA is somewhat pointless because it will be imediatly be undermined by the RIAA, i mean they have people examining the Kazza and other file sharing progamms, they have their people infiltrating the forums and network. Everything is too public for a stratigic defense. :unsure:

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And our main defense is to make PUBLIC what they are doing -- namely, attacking a LEGAL network (although one with lots of illegal sharing of copyrighted files.)

This is like shutting down email or the whole internet to prevent spam and the proliferation of child porn.

I don't worry too much about the PEOPLE monitoring us in this forum and on KL++. The manpower needed to monitor HERE alone is not trivial. The various file-sharing networks would take an unlimited amount of human monitoring.

It's the BOTS that can work at 100x the speed of humans but cannot reason enough to decide what's a copyright violation and what isn't.

My sig says it all.
We are on the right side. let's see what RIAA throws at us; then throw them back :D .

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Originally posted by Switeck@24 October 2003 - 17:41
And our main defense is to make PUBLIC what they are doing -- namely, attacking a LEGAL network (although one with lots of illegal sharing of copyrighted files.)

This is like shutting down email or the whole internet to prevent spam and the proliferation of child porn.

I don't worry too much about the PEOPLE monitoring us in this forum and on KL++. The manpower needed to monitor HERE alone is not trivial. The various file-sharing networks would take an unlimited amount of human monitoring.

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I agree 100% that educating the public on the nature & intent (even if some of it is deemed of the network would aid filesharers tremendously. Unlike Napster, the general populous is fairly unfamiliar with the Kazaa network and is unaware that this is the primary one being targeted. In just talking with the average Joe, many will simply tell you something such as "You know 'they' are trying to crack down on people sharing music by suing them if 'they' catch you."

I don't know if this has been posted before but in the UK the government is about to change the copyright laws at the end of this month, it will basically cover digital media which can be or is transferable, i.e. music and films and software that we can download, makes you wonder if they are going to start getting people here in the uk

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Originally posted by k-liteuserintheworld@27 October 2003 - 08:52
I don't know if this has been posted before but in the UK the government is about to change the copyright laws at the end of this month, it will basically cover digital media which can be or is transferable, i.e. music and films and software that we can download, makes you wonder if they are going to start getting people here in the uk

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If it is true, the UK will be the first country outside of the U.S. to have such copyright laws implemented; hopes that doesn't start an international trend