5 Reasons Not To Be Afraid Of The Riaa

[iwalrus]

Originally posted by 3RA1N1AC@4 July 2003 - 16:36
they may get hold of your info from your ISP and sue you.

I'm really not worried about getting sued/arrested for these reasons:


1. I don't download a whole hell of a lot of files to begin with.
2. I live in a little nothing town in Southern Indiana... I doubt the RIAA/MPAA would bother-- from what I understand it's mainly college campuses
3. As of this post, there are 3,404,207 people on Kazaa. They can't take us all, and what are the chances they'll target me? I don't have a thousand movies, songs, or any porn. I'm just a simple boy downloading his Anime and Beatles tunes.

So relax and download what you want; I highly doubt you'll get into any trouble.


Just don't leech or I will cancel you ass.

[3RA1N1AC]

Originally posted by iwalrus@4 July 2003 - 19:50
Just don't leech or I will cancel you ass.

with over 3 million people on kazaa, your threat sounds pretty empty. like any of us are going to run into you anyway.

[djflypson]

somebody knows a place where all lawsues (?) from over the entire small planet, concerning sharing, are listed ?
grtx

[vaughn_le]

You guys are scaring me... I don't know all these bs about suing and arresting me but all i have to say is.... "I HAVE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY" I do what I do. But seeing how it is on the news and all these bs companies coming after users... It kinda gets to my head. I mean if you look at it, 1 or a million will be sued right? So whatever they sue 1 million? wouldn't i be part of that 1 million? Jeez... I don't download a lot, but when I do its usually a couple of gigs and I do leave my computer on for sharing, Is that an easy way for them to get me? I don't think so. I like the odds of 200,000,000 users sharing, but it wouldn't surprise me that all the 200 mill gets sued leaving all of us handicap from ever sharing again. I think all of us should take a stand! and let the base of one of the amendment be our cause... lol Its our right to do what we wish in our homes and our property. All all you guys/gals out of the USA... all i can say is... DAMN YOU SO LUCKY! lol later!

[2nd gen noob]

Originally posted by vaughn_le@6 July 2003 - 08:26
You guys are scaring me... I don't know all these bs about suing and arresting me but all i have to say is.... "I HAVE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY" I do what I do. But seeing how it is on the news and all these bs companies coming after users... It kinda gets to my head. I mean if you look at it, 1 or a million will be sued right? So whatever they sue 1 million? wouldn't i be part of that 1 million? Jeez... I don't download a lot, but when I do its usually a couple of gigs and I do leave my computer on for sharing, Is that an easy way for them to get me? I don't think so. I like the odds of 200,000,000 users sharing, but it wouldn't surprise me that all the 200 mill gets sued leaving all of us handicap from ever sharing again. I think all of us should take a stand! and let the base of one of the amendment be our cause... lol Its our right to do what we wish in our homes and our property. All all you guys/gals out of the USA... all i can say is... DAMN YOU SO LUCKY! lol later!

200 million??

no chance

the number of users on kazaa is approx 4 million
there will not be a lot more on other p2p apps

also, the riaa can't afford to sue 1000000 people, it would simply cost too much

[aoyv73]

UK courts uk law and the eu so far they have no power here But nothing to stop them contacting you or your ISP uk has has there own bunch of clowns so far no one has been in court or banned a few have had there ISP tell them to stop downloading or uploading copy right stuff seems thats it so far.

[KEL]

So what now? We in the U.S. can now disable our file sharing without fear of being denied downloads?

Besides that, I hear the RIAA lost its suit against morpheus, see the link here:

http://www.winamp.com/news.jhtml;$ses...articleid=10000

If thats true then I foresee some problems in going after those that use programs like that. I mean its hard for me to see them successfully suing someone for using a program the court has already said is ok to use.

[Lazlow]

I apologise if this has been said before because I haven't read the beginning of this topic but according to some people, they have got messages from the RIAA saying "you are not anonymous and can easily be identified" is actually breaking privacy laws and therefore, they are breaking the law

[[B][O][T]]

Originally posted by KEL@6 July 2003 - 14:47
So what now? We in the U.S. can now disable our file sharing without fear of being denied downloads?

Options > More Options... > Prevent other users from getting a list of all your shared files.

BOT

[Lazlow]

Originally posted by KEL@6 July 2003 - 12:47
So what now? We in the U.S. can now disable our file sharing without fear of being denied downloads?

Besides that, I hear the RIAA lost its suit against morpheus, see the link here:

http://www.winamp.com/news.jhtml;$ses...articleid=10000

If thats true then I foresee some problems in going after those that use programs like that. I mean its hard for me to see them successfully suing someone for using a program the court has already said is ok to use.

Ok, so if they have stopped the court case againt Grokster, why doesnt everyone just move to Grokster?