Can you get around the RIAA

how to avoid the RIAA is easy just get dollars v1.0 and then connect to RECsTore - as long as you have high enough version of dollars you can get any albumn you please without fear of the RIAA :D

heh just messin round :P

v_Ln

OK......................just a few personal observations, as the "leagle eagles" would say:

WITHOUT PREJUDICE :p

I was once laid off/made redundant because of the downturn in the music industry due to piracy (there was NO internet in those days!) a very long time ago.

This piracy has continued ever since, and is no different from people borrowing vinyl and cassettes, (guess some folks will have to run a google search to find out what those are :D ) and copying them, as they did in my day?

Things haven't really changed. The marketplace and technology have and the entertainment industry has not?..........a lack of humility and too many supercharged egos in the same place? In a a way they have brought the problem on themselves IMHO.

That is why they are picking on 12 year old girls whose parents will probably not bother to fight it. This will cost the RIAA very little and create a legal precedent.

It would not be permitted in this country, as the girl is not of the "age of legal responsibility" over here, and probably not in many other European Community countries. The real problem is that the entertainment industry will not come to terms with the internet until it is forced to.

I would say that If I set up a server in a country that does not subscribe to US & Allied patent legislation (not political.......commercial alliances here), and people used an anymous proxy server to contact it and download; you might well have to re-write bits of the Constitution to allow the RIAA to continue in business (as in RIAA = R.I.P?) to the best of my knowledge, no legislation has preserved a single dinosaur?

Please do not misunderstand me, I am not condoning theft.............but the USA also has anti-trust legislation, and this stinks of monopolistic behaviour to me? A very few people in the entertainment industry make big money, most just make a living, if that.

I would warn that the persecution of 12 year old girls is not smiled upon in Europe.......it might be an idea NOT to open Pandora's box............this is not Iraq again?

Just a few personal observations

Cheers

File sharing may never stop, but no matter what you want to think, it is illegal. Noone here has the right to download copyrighted material no matter what excuse you give.

I wish more people would not use arguments such as the music industry are money grubbing bastards. That may be the case, but that doesnt make the downloaders/sharers right too.

MSN has a pretty good story about how the RIAA and how they pick people to sue.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/963684.asp?0dm=L25BT

Interesting point there Grinler.......................

Is the illegal bit DOWNLOADING or the UPLOADING...............over here I would say that it is the uploader who would get hammered?

Cheers

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Originally posted here by Deaflamb
IEventually the issue of file sharing is going to end up in the supreme court and the majority of justices are going to agree that they liked downloading their favorite country song.

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lol nice man, I agree with you, it will eventualy go to the supreme court and you know that atleast one of them has a burned cd in there office or they will be listining to some nice classical stuff while they diliberate. Hopefully something will happen son and this **** will end. I for one am not going to stop downloading music just becuase some greedy ******* wants 47 million instead of just 46 mil for his lattest hit.

can u just spoof ur IP and then download and have it be a bogus IP?

at this time...the riaa is not interested in those who only download files. its those that share them so others can get them that there suing. so if you want to fire up kazaa you'll be safe from the riaa as long as your not sharning them. Of course this stratagy will not keep you safw from viruses and trojans so keep you AV up to date

Yes, but how is a P2P network going to work if no one is sharing files? :confused: The RIAA still wins that way. Which would probably be why they are going after people who share, not those who dl, if you stop the sharing out of fear, you stop the dl'ing too.

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Is there anyway to use sites like BearShare, Win MX, eMule, etc..., without fear of repercussions?
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his question was is how can he be safe. right now thats the only way. i dont want to go on about the riaa, the record ind. in general and file sharing. ive written volumes on it already on this site and i would quess most people are sick of hearing it by now. but to recap... the riaa is a monster, the recording industry as it is should die and most kazaa users are no better than script kiddies in that they couldn't get what they wanted without an easy to use gui interface and their giving the government all the more reason to put troops on the internet to police us all. because of p2p the riaa has obtained the right to monitor news groups, irc and ftp sites and yet nobody will stop buying the lastest ****ing music to hit them where it hurts which tells them they can do anything they want...so they do!