download music ? face huge fines
 

the RIAA :******: is stepping up its action against file-sharing in music and is to adopt a stricter fines system with law suits coming in the next few weeks against users demanding atleast £90,000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ic/3021126.stm

i would have most likely never have bought my avril cd if i had not have had a chance to sample her other tracks
:rolleyes:

idiots:rolleyes:

the world has gone mad ......whatever next ......outlaw the sale of cd rw :wavey:

lucky thing i live in england where the RIAA have bog all authority at the moment...

sounds like he is subliminally telling customers to install a firewall to stop the RIAA having access to scanning your files to me :erm: hehe

yep i cant see it really doing any damage here :/

its a matter of time before we start to get hit by groups in europe

ah well we're all innocent arent we ;)

by the time eaurope and england get round to it the p2p clients will be too sneaky for them to cope with.... after all the coders that write these clients are always one step a head of them ;) p2p will always continue ... clients these days have random port settings so its impossible to track the data unless they scan all ports anyway thats udp and tcp......... hell most files come in rar format these days anyway making it even harder for them to prove its copy written stuff

maybe some of us are...........

yes i know all that more advanced clients will come along

'at the moment' are the operative words. America has an increasingly unpleasant and arrogant habit of forcing other countries to bend to their will.

And guess which band started the ball rolling on this.

Which....???:D

Here's another article on the subject:

http://www.techtv.com/news/news/stor...463091,00.html

Well, whilst more advanced clients will come along, the RIAA will still have access to them. Due to the very nature of P2P software, if you want to share your files, then others must know how to find and access them... including the RIAA! Simply by looking for files that are similar to their copyrighted material and then doing a partial / full download, they can determine whether you are indeed in breach of copyright laws... they're using nothing particularly clever to do this.

I've seen similar trends already with organisations [1] trying to take persons that make their customers software available for download online to court by issuing notices of claimed infringement to the ISP, detailing the source of the P2P host and the infringement details - the onus is then on the ISP to provide the relevant details for the person responsible so that any possible legal actions can be followed up.

Could this be the end of the road for P2P piracy?? :eek:


[1] eg. The Business Software Alliance(BSA)