RIAA Threats...
 

Is anyone concerned about the recent threats by the RIAA to sue all of us for theft? Personally, I'm not sure what they will be able to do realisticlally or if it is a bluff to try to get all of us to cease file sharing. Please post your thoughts on their latest action and what your feelings are...Does anyone plan to do anything differently in view of the RIAA threats?

The RIAA is mostly trying to scare people from sharing, but they are going to sue individual users. I'd say that you might be in danger if you share more than 1000 files. Anyway I live in Norway where the RIAA have no power at all. It's not even illegal to download stuff.:D

Re: RIAA Threats
 

I think its completely bogus, and as a result, I refuse to buy any CDs now. Not a one! If I were a rich man, I'd melt the 1500 or so that I've bought over the years, into a nice plastic ball, and fire it thru their front door with a cannon.

As for whether its true or not, it is. Read these articles posted yesterday:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31833.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,92351,00.html

I don't think it's an idle threat - I believe they will actually sue individuals just to make a point. As for me, I won't be buying any more CDs either - screw them!

Purchase new CDs
 

Well, I certainly do not plan on purchasing new CDs anymore after this. Any music I purchase will be used from individuals though Amazon.com or secondspin.com. 1) I get the CDs cheaper and 2) I circumvent the RIAA "machine" and NO money goes to them. Perhaps if more folks would stick to their guns they will see that is their heavy handed tactics that is the reason they are losing money, and (or) their failure to embrace new technologies in distribution.

I for one have hated for YEARS having to spend 15 dollars for 1 or two songs I would eventually end up listening to. The rest were always garbage anyway.

Anonymity
 

I'm somewhat of a new user to the Limewire/Gnutella forums. Is there a way to achieve anonymity when sharing files with Limewire? Are there any 3rd party utilities available? Please let me know. Thanks!

Does anyone know if PeerGuardian can be used on a Mac?

does it really work?
if it does where do i get it?

RIAA THREATS
 

I think this is all a ploy to get people to stop sharing, too. And they are using the media to scare people. Imagine if they were to really go through with it ?
They would have to sue everyone in the entire world 1 at a time. And the CD R companies would loose money on sales, programs like itunes would loose money..... RIAA is screaming broke now, they would have to spend money and time in court all over the world. I think it's a big scare. Besides, next thing you know, they will sue libraries for loaning their cds for free or ebay auctioneers for selling used cds..... Sharing is o diffrent than loaning a cd to a friend. And they can't sue for that. They need to get over themselves.

File-Sharing Subpoenas
 

In today's Seattle PI, there is an article stating that subpoenas has be issued and those prosecuted will be fined $750-$150,000 per song downloaded. I do not want to be a part of this any longer, because it's not worth it to me. I would even like to contact Limewire and get my name removed from their records.

Can anyone say...."PGP" it'd totally secure, absolutely unbreakablr technology to share files with. Only thing is, you need to start a closed network to start with and build your "key chain" list. Do a Google search for PGP and read for yourself about the technology. The FBI has been working on breaking this encryption for years and still hasn't even come close.

Here's a list of Kazaa users that the RIAA are investigating

Aab@Kazaa
Aboggs2@Kazaa
allstatetide@Kazaa
Amissann2@Kazaa
AngelaMikesell@Kazaa
anon39023@Kazaa
anthonybotz@Kazaa
aoster1@Kazaa
Ariel167@fileshare
asheejojo@Kazaa
Ashley@Grokster
azn_bahamut@Kazaa
B.B.C@Kazaa
badandy@Kazaa
Benchy987@Kazaa
Bigeasssy24@Kazaa
Bigpimpinitopey187@Kazaa
bigjohnhc@Kazaa
blazel@Kazaa
bluemonkey13@Kazaa
Boilermaker1214@Kazaa
brentandjonna@Kazaa
brich410@Kazaa
budman5000@Kazaa
Bush323@Kazaa
cado@Kazaa
Carolyn@fileshare
Casal@Kazaa
cbegalle@Kazaa
cherriie@Kazaa
CLOVER77@Kazaa
Corky101@Kazaa
Cortez1023@Kazaa
CowgirlMDR@Kazaa
crazyface@Kazaa
d-dubb@Grokster
dallass@Kazaa
daredevil@Kazaa
DEFAINCE357@Kazaa
definitely_ditzy@Kazaa
dimples0530@Kazaa
dmadigan@Kazaa
dotzbadger@Kazaa
dubcha@Kazaa
dulfingurl2@Kazaa
Dyellagurl22@Kazaa
Dziion@Kazaa
eddieh@Kazaa
emmi4@Kazaa
enbbarnes@Kazaa
ERIKA@Kazaa
felicia_alvarado@Kazaa
flowerpower0818@fileshare
fox3j@Kazaa
freckles72587@Kazaa
fritzbuilding@Kazaa
Generalby@Kazaa
Ghettobootybabe8@Kazaa
h2ochamp@kazaa
harris@Kazaa
heather_thee_amazing@Kazaa
hoami316@Kazaa
hooterzzz@Kazaa
hottdude0587@Kazaa
HyDang@Kazaa
ilovemydez@Kazaa
indepunk74@Kazaa
inthisroom@Kazaa
jamonie@Kazaa
JE_WV@Kazaa
Jeff@Kazaa
Jessica@Kazaa
jim@Kazaa
joanjett@Kazaa
joe@Kazaa
jomada@Kazaa
JustineRiot@Kazaa
kelney12@Kazaa
kenne007@Kazaa
KrAyZiE@Kazaa
ktgurl13@Grokster
kunstrukter@Kazaa
ladypimp8669@Kazaa
laurelbean@Kazaa
leahpate@Kazaa
LiLHuNnIe1480@Kazaa
Lisweet@Kazaa
Lyssy348@Kazaa
madkirk@fileshare
Marge4131@Kazaa
Marla262@Kazaa
mgokey@Kazaa
mike@Kazaa
Motivator@Kazaa
munkeyspanker21@Kazaa
nikki@Kazaa
Niltiak@Kazaa
Nodopefor2@Kazaa
paulina@Kazaa
pdia@Kazaa
PDJ1846@Kazaa
Playgirlmama@Kazaa
Prtythug23@Kazaa
qjade512@Kazaa
rebecca_m_122@Kazaa
rips42@Kazaa
rochelle@Kazaa
RockOn182@Kazaa
samlionofzino@Kazaa
shakobe@Kazaa
shonga84@Kazaa
sk8boyben@Kazaa
sneil@Kazaa
soccerdog@Kazaa
StolenSi@Kazaa
sus@Kazaa
Sweet3114@Kazaa
sweetthang1421@Kazaa
TheLastReal7@Kazaa
TMONEYNDHIZOUSE@kazaa
Tyler@Kazaa
Unit984@Kazaa
Westly_NoGood@Kazaa
www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa

I especially like the lastone since there are several million users with that username:) Kinda scary though, and soon the EU will open for companys to do this in europe:(

still sharing
 

Well, I've been sharing around 7000 files whenever I'm not using my line for something else that takes a lot of bandwidth for quite a while... since those heady first days of napster... I'm not on the list.... however I am changing my sharing a bit, ftp server and several good friends just trading via our ftp servers, we each buy used CDs in turn and put them on our ftp servers so the rest can download them... hell, i've got money to burn, but that's the bit that actually puts me off of file sharing a bit, if I was penniless and over the age of 18, what can the RIAA do to me? You don't sue someone who has nothing, look at all the bad publicity mcdonalds got when they sued an out of work mailmail and unemployed bar maid for handing out anti-mcdonald leaflets in front of one of their stores... www.mcspotlight.com if you're really interested... mcdonalds soon wished they had never picked up that stick to bash them with. I predict this is going to backfire heavily on the RIAA in the end.. and I aim to keep sharing selected portions of the library. Now... if we all ran linux boxes, we could just use oportunistic virtual private networks and no one would know what was going on .. I doubt anyone in the RIAA has enough brain cells to even operate linux.

Cheers
Jogdial

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