File-Sharing Software Users in the USA

Is anybody on the list?
http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3484600,00.html

I think the RIAA are not being fair. Not only they get money from their poop stars, they want to charge the poor people who cannot afford a cd (or too lazy to get their ass into the store, but they're mostly poor)...

 

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Huray I didn't make the list. Hehe though I guess that'd be kind of hard with my 56k and only occasional download.

 

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Whoa..this is getting serious
..did they pick these guys randomly?

 

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And they call it the land of the free!

The jokes on you my friends

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I turned off sharing in Kazaa... I do not want to get sued, I do not want to be the distributer, and I do not like the bandwidth being taken from me.

 

They've had computers crunching the largest prime number for years (which consequently keeps growing), so would it be so difficult to start from A@KAZAA and then just cycle case settings and alphanumeric lexicons untill you end up with a long lines of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's@KAZAA.

Lets put it like this:

Your someone that doesn't have enough money to go out and spend on music, so you wouldn't "BUY" the music.

Okay you download it on Kazaa, but since you weren't going to buy it, have you actually made a loss to the corporate companies?

If anything you might like it, the quality might be shoddy so you go out and by a copy, that you think is real but turns out to be a pirate anyway (Just your damn luck).

Meanwhile the RADIO's of the globe spout out music (and advertisements) constantly, So why not just play the radio? Oh I forget, if it's too loud you need a license for the damn party or "public broadcast".

Do you hear the singer/songwriting artists bitch about it as much as the corporates? Simply they are upset they lose money, but at the end of the day the corporates rob them blind anyway.

I should think although the artists would be miffed at losing money, they won't mind people making the corpor's squirm a little (It might just be worth the loss of cash).

I'd like to see one of those lazy fat assed Corporate directors that gets paid multitudes of wedges in green, to actually go out and work a hard days work road sweeping, sewer cleaning or something that means hard graft, then they would have something to complain about.

in fact Corporates are their own worst enemy, they force music to be popular and when people want the music because it's popular they start sueing them for it.

this could lead on to the drug dealers that push heroin on to people sueing them when doctors prescribe methadone to help them kick the habit.

Mr Director, Give up sorting out your Blue M & M's it cost too dang much.

 

Dam no more Kazaa for me, DC++ and (almost only) anime... I have also pirated computer games which must be a big no-no

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I wonder if munkeyspanker21@Kazaa ever thought that his nickname might wind up on a subpoena.

 

i think they are mostly going after thos that actually put the music on there. i doubt me and my 200 files will be that interesting.

 

they're ONLY going after Kazaa? They're mistaken if they think that's the only stuff out there.

 

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Kazaa users are relatively easy to trace. They can't stop people on closed DC hubs, or people using encrypted filesharing clients like freenet. Unless they plan on randomly raiding the houses of computer owners filesharing won't be stopped, it will only evolve to be untraceable.

 

How about Limewire, Morpheus, etc?

 

Gnutella network (Limewire, Morpheus,ect) is total p2p and comes with encryption and is untraceable (except if you’re a node).

 

From what I've read/heard they DO think you're interesting because you're easy

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Well, an easy target for a lawsuit. They want people that won't fight and will simply roll over and say "yes sir, may I have another" kind of to "show the rest of 'em". They know if they just take down "the big boys" everyone will keep the same attitude you have right now and keep sharing.

Wow, I used far too many parenthesis in that paragraph. Well, you get the idea.

-AntonK

 

lol.. i wouldn't be easy. i'd put up a fight. and a good one.

 

Maybe they should just go after every single person in the country who has an MP3 on their computer. oh.. wait. they can't do that, because then, even they would probably screw themselves over as well. Any way you look at it, every one with even one song on their computer is a criminal. and how about they show us some line graphs on how much $$ the music industry has lost since file-sharing began? they probably don't show us because it might have been boosted.

 

Just remember your also a crim if you sing a song to yourself (You know one of those ones you can't get out of your head due to the manipulation of media by multicorps)

 

what pisses me off is that no one would be complaining if it were cassettes we'd taped off the radio.

not to mention i think they are only hurting themselves... there are so many bands that i never would have heard of without filesharing.. ESPECIALLY if i had to pay $15 just to see if ilike them or not. CD sales may be down (slightly) but i bet concert ticket sales have gone up.