When you retard fair use with
pointless DRM and then sue anonymous children for illegally downloading music while
ignoring those of the execs at the top of the music industry, well, you're asking for a public relations nightmare. Now, with more than 35,000 lawsuits to its credit, the
RIAA says it will finally end the legal assault against consumers that began back in 2003. The Recording Industry Association of America will instead, focus its anti-piracy efforts with ISPs. Under the new plan, the RIAA will contact ISPs when illegal uploading is detected. The ISP will then contact the customer with a notice that would ultimately be followed by a reduction or cessation of service. As you'd expect, the RIAA is not commenting on which ISPs they are in cahoots with. The RIAA also says that it won't require ISPs to reveal the identities of individuals but could, of course, go after individuals who are heavy uploaders or repeat offenders. For the moment though, it appears that
single-mothers are in the clear.
posted December 19th 2008 6:16AM
Lots of fail, not much God.
Tor is recognised as being "Tor" by anyone with the slightest knowledge of IP tracking, illegal downloading, the RIAA, etc.
It is most definitely not "someone's favourite brand name". It is Tor.
No-one thinks it is a shortening of "torrent". Unless they're arguing about a subject they have little knowledge of.
And for the record, Jason did not introduce the subject of Tor, it had already been FTW!-ed above them.
And I am all fail, no God. Forgot to reply to the comment I wanted to. Hopefully no-one will see it here on Page 3.
Typical reply from a troll. Just because I don't agree with your definition then I'm a "complete idiot."
"oh noes some1 is making tens copies of my music! im poorr!!" Wait, I could make 1000 copies and you are not a cent poorer so how the hell is copyright infringement tantamount to theft because it isn't.
So instead of terrorizing the public they are trying to now control the internet by terrorizing ISPs.
[REPEAT POST] The RIAA, MPAA, CRIA, DCMA - still don't get it ... they still haven't learned that by angering your consumer base, you're effectively cutting yourself off at the knees ... economically speaking, its very bad practice to try to force your product upon consumers - more often than not, you'll just drive them away to your competition ... is it any wonder that they are so hated on the worldwide internet community? Don't they understand that they're getting their own consumer base stacked up against them, just looking for alternate means of getting around their antiquated business plan ... [ADDENDUM] That's what I've said so many times, and to finally see that they've learned from their mistakes ... I'd say congratulations ...
Not all file sharing is illegal, its filesharing stuff you don't have the right to share,
Thats for the copyrighter to decide,
Personal use is fine, such as putting it on an mp3 player, or burning it for backup, even though the riaa does not like that.
for instants
Movies/games created by the blender foundation
such as big buck bunny, the appricot project, aka yo frankie, and that other movie made in blender,
these can all be modified, and shared, so you could create your own movies, and levels, and maybe even games using that content
wait couldn't you just go to one of those pay to surf or some open authentication place with a computer with no id info on it at all and load as much as you want?
another idea of mine is a distributed bot net (kinda like folding at home) to use as a type of sub internet that's not under their control and i figure if it got popular enough they wouldn't be able to ban it.
oh and one other thing THE RIAA CAN KISS MY ASS
this is the kind of shit they turned comments off for in the first place
Welcome to another one of Engadgets Flaming Wars....
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1st I hate them ,
2 stoped downloading a long time ago if you have friends you have your music .
3 Mp3sparks.com has most songs at 9 cents each .
4 start sharing at work and with family and friends you can put over 10,000 songs on a dvd at 10cents a dvd give them away, hell mail them to people you don't even know .Think what a million people sending there dvd's in the mail to anyone with a extra stamp saying pass it on would do cheeper then the net .
5 If you have cable you can just set up your dvd recorder to there music ch and hit record my dvr will not let me record but it records on the cheep 10 cent dvd .
6 what are they going do about wi-fi ?What if everyone does not password protect there's I don't ,anyone can use the net near me I don't care I'm paying out the ass for it .
Its time we do something more , take them on .If I could sing I would do it for free and make my money on tour .Music brings us together .
Greed has gone on to long and look were it got all of us .Millions to CEO's that do noting and drive there company into to the ground .
Write, call or email congress they have a plan for free internet over the AWS-3 spectrum ,but FCC Chairman Kevin Martin canceled it.
Do something people.
hrmm i wonder if comcast is in the deal with them since they were going to slow down everyones connections
Check the record. They filed another suit last week. As usual, the bastards are lying like a carpet.
http://www.janusvm.com/goldy/JanusPA/index.html
i think this may fix it actualy
Do you guys really thing the ISP's are going to want to lose so many customers by shutting down your service? These companies would go flat broke with the amount of people they would have to stop service to.
i wish you were right, but i think that's wishful thinking.
I think what will happen is eventually the content lobby will push legislation that basically requires ISPs to deal with pirating.
I don't think people are understanding the capabilities that the RIAA has.
Let's keep in mind that Filesharing is completely legal.
So.
All these commodities like torrents, lame-ass programs like Limewire and whatnot... all legal.
How in the WORLD are they going to understand who to crack down on when we could simply be sharing family photographs.
And I know you can do all sorts of filtering to remotely find out what a person is downloading/upping.
But the fact of the matter is, as long as you are smart about how many things you download at once, when you download it, and deleting trace files that you download(Left over folders/.mp3's) then you are inevitably fine, I would think.
In the time you read this, 655,000 songs were downloaded in America.
They simply can't do anything about it unless you are using your bandwidth to download like, fuckin' 30 albums at once/every day.
Which is why soon, they're going to start releasing albums digitally and with DRM initially implemented.
But... then there is TuneBite.
So long as people are alive, pirating will never stop.
It's a nice fact of life and the internet.
They are not going after users of torrent or other p2p tech. They search for their content and then find people sharing it.
When you get a cease and desist letter (as i have) they specify exactly what the content was.
I actually got an email from optimum online relayed from Sony about downloading the movie 21..
@tricker:
You got the title wrong. The RIAA's decision has nothing to do with finding their soul.
they have finally realized a more effective strategy.
I am quiet torn by the decision. It seems like the days of the internet as the 'wild west' are over. Lawmen are coming to town. On the one hand it is sad to give up something we already have. On the other hand many of us are using content that we have not paid for.
The only thing i download are new TV shows. i pay for my music and i use netflix. I watch hulu. and netflix now has next day release of new shows. so maybe soon , i'll be completely on the up and up.
Although this feels like the man coming down on us, i think we will manage.
The irony is that all of this shit: movies, music, video games and tv.... it is just entertainment. We would all survive and maybe benefit if we were cut off and we had to go to the library and read a book or just hang out with friends or go for a walk, etc.
HAHAHAHAHA, I can got to any warez website that uses "rapidshare" and download all I want.
The funny part is all the files are renamed and zipped up in a .rar file With a password ? maybe without?
For example The simpsons S01E01
I could download it via:
www.rapidshare.com/example/user/TSE0101
Do you honestly think that the RIAA will develop highly smart software which can watch the video that's encrypted with a password and zipped up in a rar file with a fake\short\weird name?
LOLZ!!! RIAA can suck my left nut.
Rapidshare is what $10 a month? You can download at 400kb\sec+ , Get a movie in 20 minutes?
This is why I do not support torrents their speeds are not always fast, and at the last 2% its hard to find a seeder.
Anyway, What my point is the RIAA will never win, Untill 666 chip comes out which they will try to force someday into our bodies and then track everything we download, buy , listen to, and control us in a way.
There you go.
I feel that the music industry should take the radio head approach, offer music for free and hope to guilt users into buying it, if the band is worth it users will buy. I bought the radiohead cd that was offered for free because I enjoy their music, sure there are still people that will take it for free, im sure I wont buy every album. The fact of the matter I end up finding all of my music online and I buy an album if the artist or bands are good, if they aren't good I wouldn't have bought it anyways so where are they really losing money? If anything I was able to sample more music and found out about bands like bayside which I would have not shelled out money on if I did not find their music online first, now I own all their albums.
Sansa and Zune players have WI-FI connectivity, so users can transfer easily files from one to another. What will do RIAA about that?
I keep thinking about the thousands of years when people lived without intellectual copyrights and artists were making a living out of their skills. Music was all public domain the moment it was created. The kings were ruling and the clowns were entertaining. It don't understand how the clowns became richer and more important. I hope it's temporary.
The artists today can endorse products, launch their own ones while distributing music for free. The thing is they don't need the existing distribution industry anymore.
Lol with a zune, you can only listen to a song that was sent to you 3 times...
Don't blame the clowns for this. It's still the king's fault.
I think its definitely wrong to steal, but again, this is easy to understand for people that are in living in the internet the bubble. Its hard for parents and teenagers to understand that they can get caught.
Some parents go to Best Buy and get the full version of Limewire on CD and think they can go online and download whatever they want. I had to tell this guy from work like 20 times that he's stealing, and he just doesn't understand. He's says, "but I bought the software from Best Buy, I didn't steal". His wife and him have download tons of music with the assumptions they are not stealing.
Bottom line: The public needs educated on how to use this stuff, people just don't care. They see the internet as a basic public service. What will we do when Obama provides free internet for all, imagine the downloading?
Umm...the RIAA said the reason it's stopped suing downloaders, is not because it found its soul, but because it cost the RIAA more to prosecute, than it was making from the people they sued.
Just money, no soul.
just info nothing else
i find myself reading some thing from Engadget and then looking at the comments below.
i see that you could derive a lot of info off of what people talk about and some times off
subject info can be helpful to. all this stuff put together is vary interesting to me to see what a group of people clicking on the link to see what it is all about and find them self's looking at the comments below it. but yet we in the most part was interested in what was said so we comment back to the other and so forth. most of the time i enjoy reading the comments more than the actual article. we click on the the link with the intention of good news ahead.
to see what every one is talking about. but then get mad at there opinion on the subject at hand. so we comment back. but that what makes thees comments so informative. theirs a lot to learn by info others have and a lot of the people are vary smart about the subject.
just 2 cents
ok look at this site vary interesting info of one of the first intellectual property and or copy right infringement. kind of as what's happening now with the hole RIAA thing. its about half way down the page. look for the word pirated
http://www.cybercollege.com/frtv/book2.htm
oh and look at this site to vary good info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law
if ya want more info on this this is what i googleds
first type of copyright infringement
i see said the blind man peeing in to the wind. it's all coming back to me now.
as the def man listen and the mute man said its raining
Several years ago I denounced a music piracy case caused by a NASA contractor and University of Maryland scientist/professor: Dr. Eric Vermote from France. This man used peer to peer technology to create CDs for third party distribution to his friends; the home computer lab he was using for his peer to peer activities contained a NASA computer keyboard and he was using his NASA based E-mail account to communicate with third parties about his amateur counterfeit CDs. NASA and the FBI did not take the case seriously and no legal action was taken against Dr. Eric Vermote to my knowledge. The RIAA has a lot of work waiting in my humble opinion (FROM: Damien Bizeau - International artist, Promoter and Producer, France).