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RIAA suggests college students drop out of school.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Freenet may have been a savior:
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
mobrien_12:
You know what would be funny...
Sending packets to p2p networks with *AA TCP/IP addresses. Then they could sue themselves.
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Seriously, if they have enough evidence (files on her hard drive) then the maximum penalty they impose should be equilivalent to shop lifting (unless she's selling the music), and the music company who she stole the music from should have to press charges not the fucking RIAA.
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Well, the problem with that is when you use a P2P program to "share" copyright-protected files without the permission/consent/licence of the copyright owner, then you are helping other people make copies. To the RIAA's way of thinking, this makes you a distributor of bootleg copies...
You know, I'm sort of concerned. What if they pull random IP addresses from anyone using a P2P program and say that person is a "pirate?" I use bittorrent alot. Not for copyright infringement, but for what it was meant for, getting cool stuff that the copyright owners make available free of charge (things like Fedora Core 4 and StarWreck from http://www.starwreck.com).
Could these *AA bastards say "you've been using bittorrent, we are suing you for copyright infringement"??
It doesn't sound like they need any real proof.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---Could these *AA bastards say "you've been using bittorrent, we are suing you for copyright infringement"??
It doesn't sound like they need any real proof.
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They could ... but they shouldn't ... and you can probably get off by nuking your HDD and getting a good lawyer.
P.S. Starwreck is pretty cool :thumbup:
Refalm:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---It'd be cool if you could configure a filesharing program to connect via a proxy based in China or Korea, that way the bastards will never catch you. :D
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True, but most people (who don't even know what a proxy server is) leave the setings to standard, and keep uploading their downloaded mp3's to other machines, and attrackting attention to RIAA.
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