Aww Shit

[guitar814]

They can't sue all of us. But with the first lawsuit and the extreme media coverage watch the numbers drop off kazaa. One guy said "It doesn't take too many tickets to get everybody to obey the speed limit." As long as we all continue to speed they WILL run out of legal funds.

I expected the RIAA to eventually go after us but I thought that it would be after Apple's music store opened to Windows users. Until that happens we still have no way to recieve music in the form we like it and no easy way to put it on our MP3 players. I knew that it was comming, I am just suprised by the timing.

[toddiscool]

Originally posted by Spindulik@27 June 2003 - 12:09
Then other countries will learn then "ropes' of the USA laws and follow through.

Rigth now the political world is not in a position to be following the united states lead in anything. Becasue the relaxing of the constitutional lawsin the state this is becoming possible. Not so in most othe countries, I do hope though that they cannot make any of this stick, because the US does provide alot of us, but I do not think that other countries have much to worry about, atleast nothing to worry about in near future.

Anyways this article is nothing new,

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Im not woried one bit

[I'm_going_slightly_mad]

Originally posted by clocker@27 June 2003 - 11:53
This latest attack by the RIAA has less to do with the rights of the poor starving artist than it does with maintaining the lifestyle of the corporate execs.

So true, so true! The music artists who are also complaining about us "stealing" their music are hardly starving, though! And the RIAA certainly seems to have a few extra bucks lying around to sue us, so it sure does not seem they have lost any money after all.

The RIAA can kiss my arse. I will continue to share MP3s and take my chances. They certainly would not get a penny out of me if they sued me. It would be a waste of their money. Hopefully a judge will finally rule that the RIAA has been ripping people off with outrageous CD prices over the years.

Boycott RIAA! Download MP3s and stop buying from them!

[Switeck]

Originally posted by Spindulik@27 June 2003 - 05:19
I know first hand in my home town, that Verizon released the name of one guy for sharing over 600 mp3's. Verizon is my ISP also. Fortunately, I haven't been sharing for a VERY long time.

Unfortunately, this means you're helping them!

Leeching the network hurts the network worse than leaving it.

[MagicNakor]

Here's an idea, if you're so worried about it: rotate what you share. 100 MP3s one day, a different 100 the next... you're still sharing, and they aren't likely to go after people with only 100 when there's people with thousands.

[asmithz]

Get peer gaurdian update the list for it
Get a good firewall like Norton security withch works very well
And then your fine they can sue you if they dont know if you are sharing

[RealitY]

My question that has yet to be answered legally, is how do you prove which computer in a house is the culprit (maybe the MAC, but I use a router which can have any MAC) and who was the user. Perhaps my buddy was using my computer last week and set KaZaa to auto start and hide in the tray, or be set not to even show in the tray.

They must issue a warning to the ISP first I would imagine. Then if ignored, take it further, but without having the computer, all the logs they have seem a bit soft if truly challenged legally as we may see in later cases.

Though they will most likely offer everyone settlements with no admission of guilt like the colledge kids, if you were cut a deal with no guilt and it cost less than legal fees you would say ok and call it a day, this is the idea they are banking on, while getting alot of publicity.

Though someone may eventually say fuck it and fight.

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[euglena4057]

I agree with the speeding ticket analogy. They will go after only a few 100
people, not thousands, in ratcheting up their efforts to scare people from
using P2P methods.