Can You Be Sued If.....

[Cks1990]

Okay I know all of you have at least downloaded one songs, some of you thousands. I am, as some of you may, be very scared of getting sued. I always thought K-Lite was better than everything else. I currently don't share any files and only have about 150 songs. I haven't downloaded a song in a long time. What can I do to prevent being sued by the RIAA. I'm thinking about siging that amensty they are offering, but I don't want to have to delete all my songs and everything. So please help me in not getting sued.

[asmithz]

K-lite blocks the RIAA, also make sure you have it so users cant see you shared folder.

[kAb]

sharing is the only way to be sued.

of course it is highly NOT reccommended that you stop sharing, as if everyone did that, there would be no songs to download.

K++ comes with an RIAA IP blocker, of course it doesn't work perfectly, but there are other things in K++ like not showing the contents of your shared folder.

[asmithz]

Waht i said.http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/w00tbrows.gif

[kAb]

Originally posted by Shad0w Hacker@30 September 2003 - 17:24
Waht i said.http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/w00tbrows.gif
except not.

The RIAA blocker is NOT very effective.

it blocks only known IP's. There are many unknowns ;)

[asmithz]

K-lite blocks the RIAA


That is what meant when i said it. (Ip blocker) but i dont care.http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/yes.gif

[MUSLEMAN]

Originally posted by Cks1990@30 September 2003 - 21:17
Okay I know all of you have at least downloaded one songs, some of you thousands. I am, as some of you may, be very scared of getting sued. I always thought K-Lite was better than everything else. I currently don't share any files and only have about 150 songs. I haven't downloaded a song in a long time. What can I do to prevent being sued by the RIAA. I'm thinking about siging that amensty they are offering, but I don't want to have to delete all my songs and everything. So please help me in not getting sued.
go here and read the pinned topics (http://www.klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showforum=48)

[Wolfmight]

RIAA can use fake user comps all the time.

[DasScoot]

Originally posted by Cks1990@1 October 2003 - 01:17
I'm thinking about siging that amensty they are offering
http://www.bambi-net.co.uk/ackbar.gif

[Switeck]

RIAA has proved they can sue you just for HAVING an internet connection -- they don't have any chance at succeeding with such litigation, but that WON'T stop them from doing it!

Your activity raises the possiblility of being sued by RIAA, but the biggest deciding factor is unfortunately just how ACTIVE RIAA is on your 'branch' of the internet. This varies from day to day, hour to hour, and possibly even minute to minute.

If we (I mean hackers/programmers/system administrators/computer technicians) knew what to look for, then I'm almost positive that RIAA's scanning activities would be so blatantly obvious that fashioning a better blocking method might be possible.

But few people seem to even know what ips are... and think that 'masking' your ip on a p2p file sharing program is easy to do without eliminating much of the ability to connect to others...

[asmithz]

Originally posted by Wolfmight@30 September 2003 - 18:48
RIAA can use fake user comps all the time.
But aleast it helps a little.

[fastrider28]

Originally posted by Cks1990@1 October 2003 - 01:17
I am, as some of you may, be very scared of getting sued. I currently don't share any files and only have about 150 songs. What can I do to prevent being sued by the RIAA. I'm thinking about siging that amensty they are offering, but I don't want to have to delete all my songs and everything.
Look everyone... the RIAA is NOT GOING TO SUE ANYONE with only a few files shared.. thy are interested only in the ones with over 1000 files shared and only the ones that are online everyday with high volume usages... Don't be scared of the RIAA.. they are nothing and always will be nothing... Don't stop sharing your files.. that will only stop the P2P system from working and this is what the RIAA is trying to do so if you do this... they win... don't let them win... That's just plain STUPID!!!!

[Switeck]

Originally posted by Wolfmight+30 September 2003 - 21:48--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Wolfmight &#064; 30 September 2003 - 21:48)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>RIAA can use fake user comps all the time.[/b]It doesn&#39;t matter WHAT username they use, if they continue to operate out of fixed ip ranges they CAN be found and blocked.

Their activities are AGGRESSIVE -- finding the ones sharing fake MP3s is no longer a problem, at least on Kazaa. Finding the passive scanners is MUCH more difficult, but hiding your list of shared files AND blocking port 1214 really stunts their efforts there. Then they can only get your shared files using regular searches, but only subsets of them due to how Kazaa/fasttrack works -- FAR less than 1,000 files, even less than 200 files in fact.
Originally posted by fastrider28@2 October 2003 - 07:13
<!--QuoteBegin-Cks1990@1 October 2003 - 01:17
I am, as some of you may, be very scared of getting sued.&nbsp; &nbsp; I currently don&#39;t share any files and only have about 150 songs. What can I do to prevent being sued by the RIAA.&nbsp; I&#39;m thinking about siging that amensty they are offering, but I don&#39;t want to have to delete all my songs and everything.Look everyone... the RIAA is NOT GOING TO SUE ANYONE with only a few files shared.. thy are interested only in the ones with over 1000 files shared and only the ones that are online everyday with high volume usages... Don&#39;t be scared of the RIAA.. they are nothing and always will be nothing... Don&#39;t stop sharing your files.. that will only stop the P2P system from working and this is what the RIAA is trying to do so if you do this... they win... don&#39;t let them win... That&#39;s just plain STUPID&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;[/quote]They have no way of detecting your volume useage short of saturating it with LOTS of downloads from you (your uploads) at once -- but even still you may be firewalled and jumping supernodes alot making finding you and maintaining a long connection very hard. My bad, K-Dat reports a speed for users, but it&#39;s only a ballpark figure NOT the speed an individual upload will give at any given moment. Instantaneous speed does not mean GB&#39;s uploaded per day, only the POTENTIAL to. If they are charing you with POTENTIAL piracy, then we&#39;re ALL guilty...

So the point is, don&#39;t share many files but share them at high speeds if you can. :)

[internet.news]

it is probably what the other people said in here:

First, I cannot except that of you cause you are just human - but
I won&#39;t stop sharing cause sharing is important :) - there is more behind
the idea: we have to share our thoughts openly to understand each other better.

Then If you have many files - over 1000 - as mentioned, you have several
opportunities: (just think about it some minutes&#33;)

1. Be sure to keep hard-to-find songs in your shared folder.
That is what I do, if I cannot find some music, which is good in my eyes,
I buy it and share it, so other people would get it easier and so it was also
worth to buy it :)

2. Split your whole files in parts, means: share 500 one day, the other day the
other 500 ;)

3. Be sure to give the files also to your friends who also probably use kazaa to
ensure avaiabiliy :)

4. Just imagine some more reasons while being creative...
This list is really long long... There are so many ways...


thanks anyway, david.

[n18]

plain easy, download foreign mp3s from kazaa, and mainstream off torrent

[DenDen2004]

i guess the old saying sharing is caring is backfiring on them. RIAA dont blame us filesharers, blame the society we were rased in. teaching us from kindergarden to share, because to share is to care :P

[ninjamonkey]

Originally posted by n18@4 October 2003 - 21:34
plain easy, download foreign mp3s from kazaa, and mainstream off torrent
whats torrent?