Anonymous File-Sharing

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/12/2003, 1:18 pm

Anything anyone can recommend?

I want to be prepared in case they decide to start harrasing twelve year olds here in the great white north.

I'm using Kazaa Lite K++ which claims to be anonymous, but I figured I should check with the masses (ie, you).

EDIT: Damn Kazaa Lite site is down.

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 9/12/2003, 1:26 pm

Sueing a 12 year old is sick. I don't care what statement you are trying to make, it is wrong. What are these people thinking? Who do they think they are?

And that is only in the states now. That does mean that Canada will be soon to follow, but right now you are good.

I also want to compliment Universal because they got the point and lowered music prices. I want to go buy their CD's now, I really do. But I still lack money.

wanan · Post by **wanan** » 9/12/2003, 1:37 pm

The record comanies are so quick to blame filesharing for all their problems instead of looking at themselves. A lot of CD's today are close to the same price they were when they were introduced. It costs pennies to make a CD, so why do they charge so bloody much? Plus, look at the iTunes store. It proves people will pay for mp3 files. They just passed ten million sales. I'm a university student and can't afford to go out and buy every CD I like. This makes me so mad that record companies are looking for scapegoats when its largely their own damn fault record sales are down.

Well, that was a bit of a rant. Oh well.

As for avoiding being sued, they're only going after people who share huge amounts of files. Over 1000 at least, so if you don't share too many, you should be okay. For now.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/12/2003, 2:08 pm

Heh, I just unshared all of my files.

I only rarely download stuff anyways...

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 9/12/2003, 2:22 pm

it doesnt matter if you share the files, its having illegal copied versions of the CD. file sharing is how people get them

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/12/2003, 2:24 pm

They catch you by the files you're sharing.

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 9/12/2003, 2:30 pm

Hmmm

RIAA=Greedy bastards

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 9/12/2003, 2:35 pm

I just thought of something though.

Say you bought The Joshua Tree by U2. You come home and transfer it into your pc and you start sharing the songs on Kazaa. The question is, can one still be sued by te RIAA? :think:

Odio La Cabra · Post by **Odio La Cabra** » 9/12/2003, 2:49 pm

http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/jump ... 96,00.html

I'm willing to bet that half of those people are 11-13 year olds, mabey younger.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/12/2003, 3:03 pm

Absent Minded Guitarist wrote:Say you bought The Joshua Tree by U2. You come home and transfer it into your pc and you start sharing the songs on Kazaa. The question is, can one still be sued by te RIAA?

Yeah, because you're supplying it for others to "steal".

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 9/12/2003, 3:48 pm

This is pretty sickening. They can't sue you for having bootlegs from Kazaa, can they?

And this is my term paper for my rhetoric class, so keep these links flowing in people.

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 9/12/2003, 4:09 pm

Axtech wrote:
Absent Minded Guitarist wrote:Say you bought The Joshua Tree by U2. You come home and transfer it into your pc and you start sharing the songs on Kazaa. The question is, can one still be sued by te RIAA?

Yeah, because you're supplying it for others to "steal".

No Shit!! Really? :wtf:

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/12/2003, 4:18 pm

Yeah.

They're currently targeting people with over 1,000 files to share (in the US).

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 9/12/2003, 4:20 pm

eh.

I got 4 files

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/12/2003, 4:25 pm

I had 100-200. Then I unshared them all.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/12/2003, 7:30 pm

Nevermind...

Canada Rocks.

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 9/12/2003, 8:00 pm

But for those not lucky enough to live in Canada, penny-arcade.com tells you five different websites where you can legally download music from without having to worry about being sued. Go to their site and scroll down. They're links hidden by random words. You'll find them.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/12/2003, 8:01 pm

Dude, I know PA. Click the wang and you're there.

Yeah, Tycho and Gabe are on top of things, but the RIAA will find ways around it.

However, it's legal here.

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 9/12/2003, 8:03 pm

No no no Bobert, I was telling those not smart enough to go to the high quality website of penny-arcade.com to go there and find out what programs are legal, so we all can stay out of jail and not pay at least a $2 per song fine. Stupid fucks.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/13/2003, 6:31 am

Ahh, okay.