Run for the hills, here comes the RIAA!

[Jetman]

Originally posted by 88mph
Sure can.

Wow - learn something new everyday.

Have to try it next time I go gank some stuff again - IF I ever get the balls enough to do it again

[Drewbacca]

I deleted all my MP3s off of Kazaa and if the RIAA send me a notice I'm going to go to the store and buy all of the CDs that I have of the artists.

It will cost me about 500 bucks. But it won't have me fined for 100M dollars. Then I will slap them in the face and tell them to fuck off, because I'm allowed to listen to them on my PC at my disclosure.

BTW, the ruling for the RIAA doesn't go in to effect until mid-July, I believe.

[Mr-K]

I would cry the day I deleted all of my MP3s. And let's take a quick look at my share folder shall we? Yeah... That's zero files being shared.

[Jeremy]

It would seem that it's easy to work around their thing by either putting the "shared" files into another folder, or by just selecting to not share anything.

[Shine]

Or you could just do the rename made popular by the Mestalzlicka/Napster ordeal.

[Shine]

Originally posted by LordPerrin
Uh... couldn't Kazaa and their sponsors launch retaliatory suits, seeing as how, in order to collect the information necessary for these suits, the RIAA would be misappropriating the use of their network in direct violation of the EULA? Come to think of it, wouldn't the RIAA personell involved be in danger of criminal charges for such action?

Didn't congress give them rights to use hacker tactics though?

[gamevet]

Originally posted by ShineAqua
Didn't congress give them rights to use hacker tactics though?

Page 36 of PC World April 2003, has an article about this. The music industry was working on a deal, that would let them have access to user accounts, by getting the information from their internet providers.

[Shine]

Originally posted by gamevet
Page 36 of PC World April 2003, has an article about this. The music industry was working on a deal, that would let them have access to user accounts, by getting the information from their internet providers.

More than that though I heard that they were being allowed to hack your IP and to cause a loss of connection. Also that they were allowed to hammer hubs to cause the same loss of connection.

[Schlep]

I'm surprised that there isn't a list being compiled of people in congress who are voting to pass these laws that are completely unconstitutional so that they can be voted out of office. Maybe there is and I'm just not paying attention.

[Shine]

Nobody pays any attention to what their goverment is doing anymore. It's unpatriotic.