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Yes...you can find out if you are on the RIAA "hit list" simply by clicking here. The site is sponsered by the Electronic Freedom Foundation and you can get a little background info from Wired News by clicking here.
Here's hoping that nobody in the AO community turns up on the list!!
[edit] If you are on the list, check out getting a good lawyer SPECIFICALLY for defense against the RIAA here. [/edit]
wheewww " NO MATCH" :) ... yes ...tx for the link ...
Hopefully I WILL be on the list soon. Of course the songs I'm trading will be the female mission statement of Project "Screw the RIAA".
Basically were getting a bunch of people to trade bogus songs, songs with our mission statement, and titles of popular songs, in hopes that they falsly indict one of us.
So far the copyright laws only copyright the content, and the process used to create the song, not the titles. Although I still have more digging to do.
We even are working on creating a program to do all the work of creating your fake playlist for you.
If your interested in helping, see
http://www.planetmaddness.com/riaa
xmaddness
Well I have never used a username for kazaa other than the k_lite one but I am waiting for the ip search because I used to use p2p in the past. It might come around to bite me in the arse.
Same here... I only used to use regular Kazaa a while back and moved onto K++ but as of last week I no longer have it on my computer and most likely will never have it again.. hopefully that IP search is up soon... :(Quote:
Originally posted here by gamernewbie
Well I have never used a username for kazaa other than the k_lite one but I am waiting for the ip search because I used to use p2p in the past. It might come around to bite me in the arse.
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xmaddness, I was a little interested in your idea so I did a little searching and found out that you ARE right... titles ARE NOT copyrighted, and here is the text (right from a .gov site for 'trust' issues):
From: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.htmlQuote:
WHAT IS NOT PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT?
Several categories of material are generally not eligible for federal copyright protection. These include among others:
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Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression (for example, choreographic works that have not been notated or recorded, or improvisational speeches or performances that have not been written or recorded)
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Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents
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Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration
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Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources)
THNK GOD NO MATCH!!!! thanks for the link though
I went to this site and got a mesage from zone alarm... "do you want ShowBehind.exe to access the internet?" I said NO!!... Looking at Zone Alarm logs I found ShowBehind.exe is located in Windows/sbnet/ShowBehind created at the exact time that I went to this web site!! The site never asked me to install anything, and no mesages poped up!
check your files...you can delete ShowBehind.exe with no problems.......but what the hell is it??? Is this a trick by the RIAA to grab info from your computer? Seems to me that the most likely people to see if they were on a list are the very people that are most likely to be on that very list...and if they arent on the list yet....they probably are after looking at this web page and having secret software installed. Is this a new way to get a trogan on to a disk?...
check it out.............
I went to that site but nothing here searched and got none of what you are talking about. Maybe just you?
:confused:
Hey Hey,
OldMan: You may also wanted to check your registry showbehind.exe apparently adds a few registry keys. In the folder with showbehind.exe there may have possibly been an uninstall file, if not, Spybot S&D will remove it. There seems to be some discrepancy over the actual purpose of showbehind.exe. It is apparently installed with XP Themes, Various New IE Updates, Speed It Up Pro - Ram booster, and other software. It has been reported to be a keystroke logger, sending every keystroke to some predetermined destination. It has also been mentioned that it may be a possible backdoor into your system (trojan) or even ad software of some sort. I have visited this site (RIAA Hit List Search) and have yet to see that software appear on my computer, nor did I receive any pop-ups asking to install software. I'm wondering if the date and times are completely coincidental and you installed this software at some previous point.
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Apparently it is Adware. The removal tool is also located here. With the software's site being http://www.showbehind.com
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I did install some software today.. I only got the warning from zonealarm after visiting this web site, however I haven't used my computer untill now. I installed Download accelerator Plus this afternoon. The create time on the ShowBehind file is the exact time that I accessed the webpage though...I'll check my registry. I did delete the file and yes there was an uninstall in the folder, but I figured just 'cause it says uninstall that doesn't mean crap///
Thanks..
Thanks I am clean too though it has been a long while since I used my dialup for weeks at a time to scoff up crappy quality music
what if like i use a dial-up and someone has the username lets say Chris and he uses dial-up to (that means our Ip's change at every log in) .... what if i use the username Chris too ....can they find any of us then or ????
Yes...the recent Verizon ruling allows the RIAA to supeona the records of your ISP...records that will lead directly to you as they will show your username (the one you dial up with) as being associated with the IP address in the supeona. If it's not your account, then you just got your friend (or your parents, grandparents, whomever has the account in their name) busted.
I don't give a sweet jesus if they want me or not. Screw'em. longlive www.planetmaddness.com/riaa . Greenies for those who will join it.
No ..No ... i joined it because i dont like RIAAs opinion like many others here ... giving out greenies because somebody joins is not good ...everybody will join just to get greenies ... i just think its wrong to give out greenies because somebody join ....you better explain in a thread or so what the RIAA does and what we do at planetmaddness.com/riaa and i think far more people would join....Quote:
Greenies for those who will join it.
BTW : tx allenb1963 for clearing that up for me ...
Always glad to help a fellow member of the community. ;)Quote:
I'll also add that the IP search is now functioning for those with a static IP.
I think that maybee that site is just an RIAA plug. I have searched for some very obvious music piratey names and none have come up trumphs.
Anyone actually get anything other than not on list ?
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Originally posted here by mark_boyle2002
I think that maybee that site is just an RIAA plug. I have searched for some very obvious music piratey names and none have come up trumphs.
Anyone actually get anything other than not on list ?
I tried the same, but I had no luck in finding any names that I figured would turn up. The Wired article does state, however, that there are only 125 names in the database as of July 8. So maybe I just didn't hit on the right ones, hmm...
Nevertheless, still a good find...
xmaddnes- That is a pretty good idea. However, you do realize that if you were to get a subp. that you would incur some cost to yourself in legal fees? Even in a case like this where it is pretty obvious that what you are sharing is not copyrighted material, you could probably expect to have to pay several grand to get a good lawyer. People trying to defend themselves usually ends up being a very bad thing.Quote:
Hopefully I WILL be on the list soon. Of course the songs I'm trading will be the female mission statement of Project "Screw the RIAA".
Thanks for the website. I came out clean too.
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Originally posted here by mark_boyle2002
I think that maybee that site is just an RIAA plug. I have searched for some very obvious music piratey names and none have come up trumphs.
Anyone actually get anything other than not on list ?
I can understand your line of thinking, but the EFF has been around since before the RIAA even learned to pronounce "P2P".
If you want to check it out, go to EFF's homepage (link is in my original post) and click on the "about us" link.Quote:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded in July of 1990 in response to a basic threat to speech. The United States Secret Service conducted series of raids tracking the distribution of a document illegally copied from a BellSouth computer that described how the emergency 911 system worked, referred to as the E911 document. The Secret Service believed that if "hackers" knew how to use the telephone lines set aside for receiving emergency phone calls, the lines would become overloaded and people facing true emergencies would be unable to get through.
I have heard Earth Station 5 [www.es5.com is pretty good with protecting you from the likes of RIAA....though it is dependent on the fact that anonymous proxies are truely anonymous ... do you guys think it is possible to create a truely anonymous P2P
One thing i learned along time ago is that no matter what you do you are never completely anonymous. Its all a matter of what the people who are looking for you are willing to go through to get ya.
I bet they are just doing it to scare people. so they will stop downloading and uploading they will soon figure out that file trading can't be stopped
Well as it may be a scare tactic and not everyone will be caught. I think that they will make examples out of a few.
lol, I use klite with the username "[email protected]" or whatever the default uname is in lite, and I have a dynamic Ip, (if I actually shared any files, I might be releived.)
LOL. That is so funny. I only wish I'd thought of that. If any of you are indicted, not only will you be cleared of any wrongdoing, you'll have a clear case against the RIAA for suing you falsely. GOOD PLAN. that is friggin hilarious.Quote:
Hopefully I WILL be on the list soon. Of course the songs I'm trading will be the female mission statement of Project "Screw the RIAA".
What you may or may not understand is that having a dynamic IP doesn't automatically clear you. All the RIAA has to do is check the time you were "caught" and submit that to your ISP. If your ISP is giving away the info then whatever time you had that IP will be traced right back to you the user. By the way those logs are kept from my own experience I used to go ver those logs when I worked for Earthstink.Quote:
Originally posted here by x acidreign x
lol, I use klite with the username "[email protected]" or whatever the default uname is in lite, and I have a dynamic Ip, (if I actually shared any files, I might be releived.)
I think it seems that the RIAA is getting pretty desperate what with going after as many people as they can find using P2P software. It will be interesting to see the backlash of their attacks....I think there could be many lawsuits against the RIAA for privacy issues perhaps...any thoughts?
Anyone who is reading this thread should read this article.
Doing a google of "DirectConnect" will yeild some interesting results and get you pointed in what may be a "safer" direction if you want to file share.
gamernewbie is right about the logs. An ISP'S software will tell you to the second what IP address is allocated to what user name, and all is stored in a database. Most ISP's will dump logs as a regular process every few months, the others back them up on removeable media.Quote:
What you may or may not understand is that having a dynamic IP doesn't automatically clear you. All the RIAA has to do is check the time you were "caught" and submit that to your ISP. If your ISP is giving away the info then whatever time you had that IP will be traced right back to you the user. By the way those logs are kept from my own experience I used to go ver those logs when I worked for Earthstink.
BTW - Hey all !!:jack: And yes I'm clean... for those of you who wondered, and for those who don't care at all, keep not caring. ::ha-sign:
Just download the new kazaa lite at www.kazaalitekpp.com . It protect you from being discovered from the RIAA and similar organization. It blocks a huge list of IP ranges that belong to places like the RIAA, FBI, DOJ, etc. etc. It blocks your IP from being discovered over the network and doesnt allow someone to get your list of shared files. So use the new kazaa lite and you're protected.
Oh my GOD!!! They want me!!
Actually I'm clean "big relief"
I'm gonna join that site to screw the riaa tomorrow. I'd be more than happy to help with it.
However, know that I am not joining for greenies, but only because I am against what the RIAA is doing.