Me to be nice i think it's mostly a bowl of crap.But i think the reason she got busted is because she left her Lime Wire on all day what do you think.

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Lol if ya using a p2p it dont matter if ya left it on all day or all week, they know what data ports are open (your ISP that is) so why not jsut changed the default ports to something different makes it a bit hard for your ISP.

How on earth do they find out where you live to be able to sue you?? I live in England and Im pretty certain there is no way of anyone being able to trace me? I havent downloaded anything like this many tracks but if there is a way of being traced then to hell with it I QUIT!!

If you click on the monitor tab in Limewire you will see all of the peers that you are uploading your files to...
This is where the authorities can catch you, they see your IP address and then link it to your ISP, your ISP then gets a notice from them and passes it onto you about sharing copyrighted files...And boom your busted...

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I think it's outrageous that this one individual would get sued just because she happens to be using LW to get the songs she wants. Heck, I've been using LW Basic, but you don't see me getting sued YET (that being the keyword). Then again, I'm in WV. I have yet to see such a case right here in WV, but I don't doubt one bit that there are certain individuals from recording studios (as well as stores that sell such recordings) who get very peeved at the thought of someone obtaining music in a manner deemed questionable.

If I own a cd , do I not have the right to give it to anyone I wish ? Or sell it to anyone?
If I go to the flea market or ebay or wherever else and buy a used cd there is no royalty being paid to anyone and that seems to be legal.
What is next ? Are they going to make selling used cd's illegal ?
Sure we all should give back something by buying music from stores or download sites sometimes. Hey the artists do not do it for free. But if you you are just listening to music on your pc and not burning cd's for sale then that should not be illegal.
If I go to your house and listen to a cd am I ripping off the artist because I do not own it ? I think not.

The artists probably make a majority of money on tours anyway

The moment the record industry get into their skulls, that they need to encode their music in better quality and drm free, their sales will pick up even more.

Not that it will help getting the people to start buying from them that they alienated all these years, and by doing that forced them into other ways of obtaining good quality music.

If you get sued just go to court saying that you just couldn't stand the crap encodes and drm they offered

Have an actual news article? Was she sharing 6000 songs or did she download them?

This reminds me of something I posted last summer. Everytime someone upgrades from 45 to LP to CD to whatever comes next... the RIAA has been collecting an immoral windfall. I think it's time to ask what they owe us!
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=59951

Good point? How much money have they been making off of the way that data is transfered from them to us, and now that we have some control over it, they cry? When I finally have some control over the technology they want to take it away from me because I might share it. Boo Hoo! I have been through 8 tracks, vinyl, cassettes and now cd's abut one new format every 8-10 years and I'm sick of it. A lot of people I know stopped buying music because they cannot keep up with all the techno changes. They just listen to the radio or don't listen to music at all.
As for movies, anyone I know that actually collects DVD's (a junk piece of shiney plastic if you ask me) buys them used from movie stores or ***** from Wally world and the like, but those people want the original, with the extra features and the pretty box. People who don't care about that stuff will rent them. And it seems to me that more and more people are renting from the net based companies or getting them from p2p sources. Point being? the way media is distributed is changing, and someone is going to get left behind, and for once, it aint us.

This is similar to what has happened so many times in history. A new technology comes along displacing an old one and subsiequently reducing some financial flow and so the people who are loosing money go to the government (courts) and *****. Hey, I got an idea, how about we send these guys all of our cassettes and 8 tracks and vinyl (ok not really the vinyl, but I have to through it in there just for example) and ask for some $ back?