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Gentlemen, start your p2p applications.
Woohoo
I say people should boycott CD and DVD stores until RIAA stops all the suing.
I think they should eb boycotted until the RIAA commits suicide.
But that’s just me.
As I once said : If they publish the shit I listen to, I’ll buy it.
Woohoo! Boycott!
Wasn’t like a similar thing done with games stores, because they the prices were too high, or something?
Anyway, I hardly buy anything anyway, so you could say I’m already boycotting them all.
My Defense:
Wow. See, the funny thing is, I completely have NO clue that the files I’m downloading are illega. I just searched for METAL on kazaa, a legal file sharing program since it shares apps, pictures, etc., not just meant for pirating music. It turned up Metallica. I honestly didn’t know it was copyrighted material.
Yeah, this concerns people who download mainstream music (metallica, nelly, etc)… If you download anime soundtracks like I do, they sure as hell won’t bother you
BOYCOTT!! Most of my music is downloaded, so if the sue me… counts change they’ll get $0.23
Damn, I’m just thinkin’ if I’m at risk of getting sued…
Hey, I just remembered that spying what people downloaded on Kazaa used to be ilegal. I know there’s a workaround so that RIAA can see what you’re doing, but I have no details about it. Pheraps if we had better understanding of how they do it, we could avoid it?
Originally posted by Xelopheris
[b]My Defense:Wow. See, the funny thing is, I completely have NO clue that the files I’m downloading are illega. I just searched for METAL on kazaa, a legal file sharing program since it shares apps, pictures, etc., not just meant for pirating music. It turned up Metallica. I honestly didn’t know it was copyrighted material. [/b]
Yeah, I guess you could pull that off seeing as how you live in some Canadian town. 
Not really, since ignorance of the law isn’t an excuse. Anyway that statement is obviously a lie, and then you’d end up guilty of perjury which is a far worse crime than stealing songs.
Yeah, uh, Xelo, guess where the Recording Industry Association of <b>America</b> is going to patrol
Originally posted by Ren
Hey, I just remembered that spying what people downloaded on Kazaa used to be ilegal. I know there’s a workaround so that RIAA can see what you’re doing, but I have no details about it. Pheraps if we had better understanding of how they do it, we could avoid it?
Technically, material the RIAA got through spying should be considered inadmissable evidence, on the grounds that it was more or less stumbled on by a non-police organization. Also, it’s a complete violation of a person’s right to privacy, and since using Kazaa isn’t terrorism-related, it probably isn’t covered in the devil-spawned Patriot Act.
The REAL thing the RIAA is mad about is the fact that they can’t take Kazaa and the other file-sharing things out easily. Napstar relied on a server; it was taken out quite easily as a result. On the other hand, Kazaa is a whole network of computers; when you download a file, you download it directly from someone else’s computer and not from a server. The RIAA loses a lot of power because of that, so they have to take every user down one by one, instead of all at once.
However, they’re only going after serious offenders right now. If they go after everyone who downloads so much as one file, they’ll have to sue millions upon millions of people. This equals legal fees. And since they’re only getting tiny amounts of money for each one (compared to most cases of this magnitude), they’ll be losing money on lawyers. Sure, they’re a multi-million dollar organization, but lawyers are the kings of greed. Not only that, but if you throw in the boycott, they’ll soon be heading into bankruptcy.
Then again, I only download anime. They won’t find any mp3’s on this baby! huggles his computer
Ok… I know I will sound ignorant, because I do not use Kazza… I hate the thought of people accessing my computer like that. shivers.
But, if this thing for the RIAA works as well as it seems, isn’t likey other orgs will go after movie downloaders, ROM users, etc.?
Just a thought…
I don’t download mainstream music, so… They can’t sue me!! well, they could but we won’t go there.
Originally posted by d Galloway
Technically, material the RIAA got through spying should be considered inadmissable evidence, on the grounds that it was more or less stumbled on by a non-police organization. Also, it’s a complete violation of a person’s right to privacy, and since using Kazaa isn’t terrorism-related, it probably isn’t covered in the devil-spawned Patriot Act.
Don’t be so sure of that, because evidence laws in particular have an unbelivable amount of legal loopholes. Also the fact that it was a non-police organization makes it MORE admissable, because non-police/govt. organizations are not as bound by evidence gathering laws.