Can The Riaa Sue Klite Users?

[E-squirrel]

deerslayer, is your name shawn?

[Mystikan]

If you share copyrighted material and don't want to get caught, there's a few things you can do to protect yourself:
1) go to http://www.peerguardian.net and download yourself a copy of PeerGuardian. This program blocks all known IP addresses that the RIAA and other copyright thugs use to get files from you to prove you're sharing illegal stuff. They update their blocklist regularly, so once you have it installed, anyone trying to upload from you via one of those blocked IPs (ie the RIAA) is prevented from getting your file. It's not 100% guaranteed, but it greatly increases the odds in your favour.
2) Change your Kazaa username on a regular basis. This does not alter your IP and won't stop a really determined snoop, but it helps prevent you getting recognised by casual rats who look for illegal filesharers to dob them in for bounties and rewards (yes, such lowlife scum do exist&#33. NEVER use your real name or even your common net nick (ie you'll never see me on Kazaa as Mystikan).
3) Get yourself a packet sniffer (PeerGuardian has one you can download) if you are really concerned, and use it to monitor where your packets are going. This is a lot of work if you share a lot of files, so only do this if you really feel the dogs' hot breath on your ass!

[Switeck]

Originally posted by Mystikan@24 January 2004 - 11:17
1) go to http://www.peerguardian.net and download yourself a copy of PeerGuardian. This program blocks all known IP addresses that the RIAA and other copyright thugs use to get files from you to prove you're sharing illegal stuff. They update their blocklist regularly, so once you have it installed, anyone trying to upload from you via one of those blocked IPs (ie the RIAA) is prevented from getting your file. It's not 100% guaranteed, but it greatly increases the odds in your favour.

Peer Guardian is good, but it's better to use Peer Guardian's most updated blocklist IN KL++.

This is done by putting the text inside Peer Guardian's blocklist into KL++'s blocklist file ( BannedIpRanges.txt )

The reason why this is better is Peer Guardian is unable to block KL++'s UDP traffic at all while KL++ can get basically ALL outgoing UDP traffic.

[ZeroTolerance]

riaa can'nt sue nobody but they can try ut i doubt they will far by doing this but if your hiding your files and sharing the files at the same time no worry for the riaa just sit back in chill B)

[deerslayer]

E-squirrel --- no, not shawn, only started posting here last 10 days or so B)

[h1]

There is no such thing as being able to hide your IP. Read RFC 2616 for more.