U.S. P2P on Lockdown

[Luciel]

i agree tottally warlock

[EMPiRE]

By sueing kids they achieve exaclty what they want as sueing someone who is making money on selling music is not that interesting and does not affect the common people

The RIAA & MPAA are both legal entities and are allowed to do these things by law (DMCA/FECA)... and if they continue sueing people, in the end it will make people more aware that they should not "upload/share" files and for better p2p networks to be developed, with better privacy protection (ip forgery/hiding)

The bad thing is that their tactics are now "copied" by other countries (UK, SE, DE, NL) now, making their action even more "legit". So it would be good if the RIAA/MPAA are stopped somehow, but that would mean cancelation of the DMCA/EUCD and this will never happen which the current governments...

The US is more and more becoming a Big Brother society where everybody is being monitored and sued when they find someting on you!

[DABhand]

For the girl subject.

She was caught sharing 100k+ mp3's. Or was it 200k+.

I cant remember now, at the time they didnt know if she was a she or a child or whatever.

End of the day she was sharing music illegally and her parents who became her legal representitives got fined heavily.

$250k I think it was.

[Quall999]

Yah, it was really high. Didn't the Artist go after her? I can't remember. They wanted to show that anyone who does it will get in trouble.

[WordBringer]

looks like people going to have to start useing proxys when shareing and downloading in the US or use a fake id when setting up a high speed internet which unlike 56k u can use any one info u want but 56k lol who would want to share and d/l with that

[Luciel]

how about non dinamic ip broadband?

[Quall999]

http://www.fileforums.com/images/smilies/wink.gif or you don't share illegal software?

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by WordBringer

looks like people going to have to start useing proxys when shareing and downloading in the US or use a fake id when setting up a high speed internet which unlike 56k u can use any one info u want but 56k lol who would want to share and d/l with that

This is what Im talking about with broadband kiddies. Not saying you are. But that is good for an example.

Broadband Kiddies prefer to download at full speed, they have the connection, but will refuse a 56k connection. As if its diseased or something.

Many people in the US and UK and pretty much everywhere else cant help being on 56k cause that is all thats available to them.

[WordBringer]

heh i have both bb and 56k the 56k is for ebay use only i get 56k free unlimted 30 day tirals and i use to use 56k till about a year ago and belive me it sucks for d/l i never d/l any thing with my crapy 3.0 kbs d/l speed so i had to move to a place that had bb just to get it and now i love it i d/l at 500 kbs but the thing is now i have nothing to d/l i dont do moives much cause the quality is just so bad i wait till there on video then watch them.

and u can always get dish internet it will work ever were even were 56k dosent and it has d/l speeds of about 30kbs which is better then 56k at 5 kbs but not as good as cable though.

[smoke-X]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Broadband Kiddies prefer to download at full speed, they have the connection, but will refuse a 56k connection. As if its diseased or something.

Its rather amusing. I'm a 56k user myself and I wouldn't have thought that a 56k user downloading from a broadband connection would seriously hinder their [broadband user's] internet connection.

But thats kids for ya.