downloading music? beware.....

[Striker187]

the RIAA announced today that beginning tomorrow, they're going to start tracking people sharing substantial collections of music online in order to sue them for copyright infringement. however they refused to say how much "substantial" is. so take your chances or lay low for awhile...it's your call. just a friendly warning from a fellow mazda driver

 

[REMillers]

Oh they at it again huh?
They tried this once before with minimal success. Silly RIAA just about everytime they get involved with something it only hurts the industry even more.

 

[unwrittenLaw]

The RIAA is pure s****...the recording industry needs some changes anyway, hopefully things will get better for music and less commercial.

 

[Natey]

hehe.
http://protege5.com/vbb225/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22957

 

[AbbyVonNormal]

" Executives for the RIAA, the Washington-based lobbying group that represents major labels, would not say how many songs on a user's computer will qualify for a lawsuit. "

Easy enough...just download the files, and store them on a external drive.
Never "exposing" yourself as to how many files you actually have when on the internet!!

*continues downloading MP3's*

 

[unwrittenLaw]

Yeah but I think they're trying to go after the big fish who have static IP's/ftp's/links/etc...and share out ungodly amounts of mp3's...guess everyone needs to lay a bit lower now though

 

[I-Am-Chris]

thats such bulls***. They have to confirm that the song titled is what you downloaded and plus with kazaa and p2p you cant trace it so they can suck it one time!

 

[spazspike]

Perhaps the network at school will flow a bit better now for us LAN games after-hours. Me, personally, I share about 8500 MP3s so I would constitute that for a fair amount.

 

[JAC]

Lets see them come down here and try to arrest me, lol .

 

[changedman]

i think its a ton of talk

 

[Stealth5]

lol, i have 1000's of songs, but use an anonymous sharing program and dont share any music, heheeh, just download

 

[JOS3]

yeah, just direct your files to an unshared folder.

i always direct my files to musicmatch. i only have like 40 files on my kazaa account right now.

 

[Jliao]

Damn... RIAA is really hitting this thing hard.. I hope they lose millions and millions of dollar just making lawsuit against each individual. I think RIAA should spend money on how to provide people with legal way to d/l music instead spend money on making lawsuit against people. It seem to me that this is just another case of Johnathan Lebed.

JAC, this is for you..
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/06/27/music.sharing.column/index.html
They're serious about it!

 

[JAC]

That guy lived in the US man, check out my location.

 

[Jliao]

Ohh..then SHARE AWAY~ ^_^

 

[REMillers]

They screwed themselves by getting rid of Napster. There they had a piece of software which was lot easier to track than todays P2P software programs. When Napster went down the market just exploded with P2P software almost over night.

Truth be told I would pay for selectively download mp3s for music CDs.
That or maybe they could use the money to get better bands and no more 1 hit wonder CD's. Oh and bring the price down below 20 dollars again.

Bleh

 

[pro00]

thread brought back to life

ok, i am fed up with all that corrupted files and screwing around trying to download the files

there are two programs taht you pay for and get unlimited downloads

www.247downloads.com
and

www.mymusicinc.com

have anybody heard of it or by looking and reading, prefer any over the other?

 

[low_psi]

don't believe the hype, the hype....

 

[low_psi]

i also suggest a temp. ban on pro00 for damning us all with old threads.

 

[alexlitov]

Ban Him!!!!!!!!!