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| AX | Posted
on 21-Jul-03 12:01 PM
If you have been using peer-to-peer systems like KaZaA, Morpheus, Gnutella, Grokster, Imesh, LimeWire, Bearshare, Aimster, WinMX and eDonkey to download songs, you may want to rethink it. Even users sharing just 8 music files are being targeted for lawsuits. Check the following link and rethink your music sharing practices. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/21/downloading.music.ap/index.html |
| acharya | Posted
on 21-Jul-03 12:07 PM
AX dude/dudess.. where have you been ? That news has been old now.. People have already come up several ways to outsmart the RIAA. |
| KaLaNkIsThAn | Posted
on 21-Jul-03 12:11 PM
>>People have already come up several ways to outsmart the RIAA. Acharya Jyu, Like what?? Yesso link-sink khojera chaapum na!!! ;) |
| knt | Posted
on 21-Jul-03 02:47 PM
I have a question about this. What if you download music, but don't share them? Are you still in danger of getting sued? |
| Ki-Ra | Posted
on 21-Jul-03 03:11 PM
I think RIAA is looking out for ppl sharing too much and have lots of traffic to and from their IP. I dont think they'll go and sue each and everyone doing P2P file transfers. They would rather flood it with fake songs and stuff. They just came up with a new P2P software that is more secure than things like Kazaa and other P2P software that has spywares in it. They even had this thing on news pani ho kyare. on CNN. But it's still in it's beta version and has a crapy design and couldnt find too much files either. So the thing is, I'll be worried more bout RIAA's agents sending fake files with trozan and virus on files rather than getin sued by them. :p Ki-Ra |
| hyaterica | Posted
on 21-Jul-03 03:13 PM
When you're downloading music through the P2P softwares, someone is sharing his/her mp3 with you which is illegal. Also, the downloaded files are saved in a folder the files in which are always being shared while you're online using those softwares which is again illegal. You could be thinking what if I copy all those downloaded files to another folder which I don't share as soon as the files are downloaded...oh well.. |
| knt | Posted
on 21-Jul-03 03:24 PM
Hyaterika, go to "Option" on Kazaa, and click on disable file sharing with other Kazaa users. In other words, if you click on this check-box or whatever you call it, you'll only be able to download songs, but you'll not be sharing them. |
| acharya | Posted
on 29-Jul-03 10:46 PM
Some hope. RIAA will take 2191.78 years to sue everyone By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 29 July 2003, 10:31 READER MICHAELA STEPHENS says that if the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is right and that 60 million US folk are file sharing, it's going to take the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a mighty long time to get round to them all. She said: "I pulled out my calculator to see just how long it would take the RIAA to sue all 60 million P2P music file traders at a rate of 75 a day. 60,000,000/75 = 800,000 days to subpoena each person or 800,000 days/365 days in a year = 2191.78 years to subpoena each person". Michaela points out that it's unrealistic to suppose that the RIAA will have any money left in 2191 years, and she even wonders whether the trade association will exist then. Plus, she points out, given the rate of tech advancement, it's likely that we'll have moved on to many different types of music media in even a hundred years. She continues: " So let us consider more realistic numbers. The RIAA plans to sue thousands of file sharers. Working in increments of 5000: 5,000 people/75 subpoenas a day = 66 days How are they going to keep track of all these lawsuits going on? 10,000 people/75 subpoenas a day = 133 days or about 2/3 of a year. "Keep in mind suing 10,000 people is still only going to impact only one six thousandth (1/6000) of the file traders out there. And who is getting rich off of this? The lawyers. Betcha not a single musician will see a cent of this money. "15,000 people/75 subpoenas a day = 200 days (1 out of every 4000 affected) 20,000 people/75 subpoenas a day = 266.6 days (1 out of every 3000 affected) "When might this actually start affecting us? When 1 out of every 10 is affected? That would mean they'd have to sue six million people. That would take,...(6,000,000/75 = 80,000)... 80,000 days.. or 219 years! They'd have to sue our great grand children!" - http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10733 |
| acharya | Posted
on 30-Jul-03 01:16 PM
RIAA Hit List The subpoenas are flying, and we're naming names. Are you on the list? By Tech Live staff The recording industry has launched a sweeping effort to identify and shut down individual song swappers, making good on recent threats to expand its legal battle against copyright theft. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has now issued more than 911 subpoenas to Internet service providers across the United States, trying to get the names of people still offering music on file-sharing networks such as KaZaA and Grokster. Today, "Tech Live" brings you the RIAA Hit List, the user names of file traders targeted in the recording industry subpoenas. Last month, we brought you the story of Jesse Jordan, a 19-year-old college student who became one of the first to be hit with a lawsuit by the RIAA. Jordan settled his case by paying $12,000 to the RIAA. The following user names were culled from subpoenas filed with the US District Court in Washington, DC. All subpoenas, incidentally, are being served by the Los Angeles law firm of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp. A total of 253 RIAA subpoenas were listed as of July 22 through the federal court system's paid online database, PACER. The actual subpoenas are available to view online in about half the cases. The court documents don't show individual users' real names. They do show file-sharing network user names, the user's ISP, the user's IP address, and a sampling of copyright songs the user allegedly made available for download. To date, many ISPs have been contacted, including Pac Bell Internet, SBC, Charter Communications, Comcast, Adelphia, RCN, and Time Warner. Following is a list of user names we found during our review of the subpoenas. Also, see the Electronic Frontier Foundation's searchable database of RIAA subpoenas, and its information on how to avoid a lawsuit. Today's New Names Updated July 28 dambroja@Kazaa IYIaC@Kazaa wilkes223@Kazaa willow@Kazaa witch_au@Kazaa RIAA's Most Wanted Aab@Kazaa Aboggs2@Kazaa allstatetide@Kazaa Amissann2@Kazaa AngelaMikesell@Kazaa anon39023@Kazaa anthonybotz@Kazaa aoster1@Kazaa Ariel167@fileshare asheejojo@Kazaa Ashley@Grokster azn_bahamut@Kazaa B.B.C@Kazaa badandy@Kazaa Benchy987@Kazaa Bigeasssy24@Kazaa Bigpimpinitopey187@Kazaa bigjohnhc@Kazaa blazel@Kazaa bluemonkey13@Kazaa Boilermaker1214@Kazaa brentandjonna@Kazaa brich410@Kazaa budman5000@Kazaa Bush323@Kazaa cado@Kazaa Carolyn@fileshare Casal@Kazaa cbegalle@Kazaa cherriie@Kazaa CLOVER77@Kazaa Corky101@Kazaa Cortez1023@Kazaa CowgirlMDR@Kazaa crazyface@Kazaa d-dubb@Grokster dallass@Kazaa dambroja@Kazaa daredevil@Kazaa DEFAINCE357@Kazaa definitely_ditzy@Kazaa dimples0530@Kazaa dmadigan@Kazaa dotzbadger@Kazaa dubcha@Kazaa dulfingurl2@Kazaa Dyellagurl22@Kazaa Dziion@Kazaa eddieh@Kazaa emmi4@Kazaa enbbarnes@Kazaa ERIKA@Kazaa felicia_alvarado@Kazaa flowerpower0818@fileshare fox3j@Kazaa freckles72587@Kazaa fritzbuilding@Kazaa Generalby@Kazaa Ghettobootybabe8@Kazaa h2ochamp@kazaa harris@Kazaa heather_thee_amazing@Kazaa hoami316@Kazaa hooterzzz@Kazaa hottdude0587@Kazaa HyDang@Kazaa ilovemydez@Kazaa indepunk74@Kazaa inthisroom@Kazaa IYIaC@Kazaa jamonie@Kazaa JE_WV@Kazaa Jeff@Kazaa Jessica@Kazaa jim@Kazaa joanjett@Kazaa joe@Kazaa jomada@Kazaa JustineRiot@Kazaa kelney12@Kazaa kenne007@Kazaa KrAyZiE@Kazaa ktgurl13@Grokster kunstrukter@Kazaa ladypimp8669@Kazaa laurelbean@Kazaa leahpate@Kazaa LiLHuNnIe1480@Kazaa Lisweet@Kazaa Lyssy348@Kazaa madkirk@fileshare Marge4131@Kazaa Marla262@Kazaa mgokey@Kazaa mike@Kazaa Motivator@Kazaa munkeyspanker21@Kazaa nikki@Kazaa Niltiak@Kazaa Nodopefor2@Kazaa paulina@Kazaa pdia@Kazaa PDJ1846@Kazaa Playgirlmama@Kazaa Prtythug23@Kazaa qjade512@Kazaa rebecca_m_122@Kazaa rips42@Kazaa rochelle@Kazaa RockOn182@Kazaa samlionofzino@Kazaa shakobe@Kazaa shonga84@Kazaa sk8boyben@Kazaa sneil@Kazaa soccerdog@Kazaa StolenSi@Kazaa sus@Kazaa Sweet3114@Kazaa sweetthang1421@Kazaa TheLastReal7@Kazaa TMONEYNDHIZOUSE@kazaa Tyler@Kazaa Unit984@Kazaa Westly_NoGood@Kazaa wilkes223@Kazaa willow@Kazaa witch_au@Kazaa www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa |