[SoLiDUS]

Originally Posted by pest

Millions of hackers and filesharers are more resourceful than a handful of lawyers. They will just provide the catalyst for the next mode of p2p transfer.

Ditto

even if they do catch you, what will the crime be?

[BloodBorn]

Originally Posted by Sclass12

even if they do catch you, what will the crime be?

Having a copywrited product without the "makers" consent.

[BloodBorn]

Post Scriptum.

They can't shut down p2p networks.....because file sharing isn't illegal. But file sharing corpywrited material is. For all they know I might be sharing a thesis on "Tweaking your computer" on a *.txt file and as long as I give my consent that this can be legally distributed it's not illegal.

And since kazaa is mainly a file sharing peer to peer network then it will next to impossible to close it down.......same with Direct Connect.

what can be done in kazaa is simply this........."cencoring" (basically banning files with those names) words like Madonna, Metallica etc. like they did with napster (although you could go around that by spelling madonna like this m4donn4 , butthere were too many combinations to find anything).

[Freddy C.]

crap i use kazaa

[11 Bravo]

[quote="Freddy C.":cc306]crap i use kazaa[/quote:cc306]

Don't worry, even IF for some miracle they actually slow down Kazaa, 10 more P2P networks are liable to pop up in its place and the RIAA will find themselves even deeper in shit.

argh, i remember when they shut down Napster. It was a sad day for us all. Now i believe its up and running again, but you gotta pay a fee for every song. WTF

[Old Reliable]

Originally Posted by 1080jibber

can someone find a link that has this Internet privacy act

check out the congressional acts

[Old Reliable]

http://thomas.loc.gov/

[Coleman]

Serious question here: Could they catch you if you do not share your files at all?

I was thinking that they could bust on you for HAVING the file, but if you are tracking a file to be downloaded, you don't have any copywritten material to be shared....just a thought.

[11 Bravo]

[quote="Garry Coleman":269e6]Serious question here: Could they catch you if you do not share your files at all?

I was thinking that they could bust on you for HAVING the file, but if you are tracking a file to be downloaded, you don't have any copywritten material to be shared....just a thought.[/quote:269e6]

I don't think they're after the small-time users that only download stuff, I don't see how they can trace that. I think they're after the providers of the files that are the cause of "the problem". Basically, the ones who share the most files.

[Bucknub]

wouldnt IRC be a problem for them aswell? I mean, you can get the WHOLE album of an artist off there and movies that havent been released yet and games aswell.

[redhawk_six]

Originally Posted by BucKweEd

read this, they're cracking down on file sharers

[url:6b432]http://news.com.com/2100-1027-1020876.html?tag=nl[/url:6b432]

ed:

Bullshit. They're just trying to scare us. It's not possible, too many jurisdictional issues with that. Where would the trials be, the "crime" isn't being committed in one particular city, it's across the entire world. If it is criminalized, who (as in, which country's, district's, or city's police force) would be doing the arresting? EG: A Miami cop can't just hop on a plane to Vancouver, arrest a guy, then take him back to Miami, just because the guy downloaded some music from the net. That's absurred. hake:

I'm not worried, in fact, I'm on Kazaa, searching for a song right now.

Originally Posted by BucKweEd

wouldnt IRC be a problem for them aswell? I mean, you can get the WHOLE album of an artist off there and movies that havent been released yet and games aswell.

IRC pwns the music industry and anything else that can be put on a computer....

they're going to be so unsuccessful at this i reckon, I reckon that privacy act will stand up in court...

[BloodBorn]

[quote="Garry Coleman":9fe02]Serious question here: Could they catch you if you do not share your files at all?

I was thinking that they could bust on you for HAVING the file, but if you are tracking a file to be downloaded, you don't have any copywritten material to be shared....just a thought.[/quote:9fe02]


ummm.........how about if you download from one of them oOo:

I mean....it's Entrapment but shit will hold up in court, like they cought a whole group by giving them a 10Mbit line and 700gigs of space . All they needed to do was to log all the IP numbers that connected to their server and downloaded things.