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Although I'd prefer she pay 150 bones rather than 220K, I'm not so sure the $9,000/song are meant to represent actual damages from her conduct, rather, it's meant to deter her (as well as others) from engaging in such hideously vile conduct in the future! Hopefully some good will spring from all this, like the widespread realization that private peer to peer sharing is better (and safer) than "wild" p2p à la Limewire/Kazaa/eMule... I use GigaTribe, which is probably the best private p2p app out there right now: http://www.gigatribe.com/

That article was some interesting reading...I'll bet someone got yelled at this morning! Damn I'd hate to be in his shoes. What was he thinking forwarding this stuff to his Gmail account? This company is toast. They can infiltrate p2p networks all they want, but they have a new p2p model to worry about now: private and encrypted p2p. How can they fight private p2p networks set up by individual groups of friends? GigaTribe is one example: http://www.gigatribe.com/

I'd have to agree that the quality of music "seems" to have gone down, but that's because most of the quality music is coming out on smaller, independent labels, which are underrepresented in music stores (what's left of them anyway!) and on TV/radio. The music industry also tends to ignore the fact that the video game industry is steadily gaining share of consumer entertainment dollars. They blame file-sharing, and even sue file-sharers, and this is a "problem" that's not going to go away, especially now that there's encrytped file-sharing apps out there that keep people's exchanges private, such as GigaTribe: http://www.gigatribe.com/

Our GigaTribe software ( http://www.gigatribe.com/ ) lets users share specific folders on their harddrives with a private community of friends. Now, what's the difference with making available a portion of your harddrive to friends and making copies of the key to your front door and distributing them to friends? As far as I know, the latter is still legal (and people could walk in and borrow CDs), why shouldn't you have the right to let a few friends access your PC? (perhaps our GigaTribe software isn't really part of the main debate since our software is designed for private communities, and not millions of complete randoms?!)

The internet is, on the contrary, making it easier to discover and share new music. I'll bet he's never even been online! Get on GigaTribe, Elt, and share some of your tunes with your friends, in an encrypted environment: http://www.gigatribe.com/ ;-) "...yellow brick road..."

I think the RIAA is just swinging the bat its last few times...it's only a matter of time until people all start using file-sharing apps that encrypt exchanges within a private network of friends (and the RIAA won't be able to track anyone down anymore)...one example of a great app that's growing in popularity is http://www.gigatribe.com/

I don't like this idea of royalties. Radio (online or off) PROMOTES music, so that listeners are able to decide what they want to BUY! Music fans have a new option for hearing and sharing music, there's encrypted file sharing apps, such as GigaTribe ( http://www.gigatribe.com/ ), that let people share music without big brother looking over their shoulder.

Well shoot, if this is all true, people should just start using private, encrytped file-sharing between friends! There's nothing safer, and no one outside your network of friends can pull any mean stuff. There's several alternatives out there, my favorite being GigaTribe: http://www.gigatribe.com/

A good alternative is to not upload a damn thing, just store it on your computer, and let your friends download from your shared folders with encrypted file-sharing software such as GigaTribe: http://www.gigatribe.com/ That way the cops can spend their time going after murderers, rapists and suicidal ministers!

People will soon be able to watch the DVD's they've ripped at home from remote locations easily. GigaTribe software lets you access content on your PC from remote locations (and share with friends), so you can already download them to remote locations but soon you'll be able to watch ripped DVDs on your computer from remote locations ( http://www.gigatribe.com/ ).

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wasn't listed as a banned client. If more people start using encrypted clients, university net admins will have to do traffic shaping. If the RIAA and MPAA can't figure out what's being downloaded in an encrypted stream, why would the university care?

Whether or not it's legal is irrelevant. Nowadays, there's a new breed of applications that encrypt exchanges, so their users are safe from lawsuits and prying eyes. GigaTribe is a great example, it's free and you can even exchange entire folders of files with friends: http://www.gigatribe.com/

Héhé...no need to go to Home Depot! There's a plethora of alternatives on the market to exchange files in complete privacy. GigaTribe is one such solution ( http://www.gigatribe.com/ ), if everyone encrypted their exchanges, these silly, and downright harsh, lawsuits would disappear.

What a joke...knives and guns are ALSO a threat to our children/security, but can be useful as well...just like file sharing is a social and easy-to-use alternative to FTP! In any case, their battle's already lost, there's a plethora of encrypted file-sharing solutions on the market that let people exchange content in complete privacy, GigaTribe is one of them ( http://www.gigatribe.com/ ), and there are probably others as well...

This is a pretty cool idea...lots of bands collaborate over great distances to get their music out.

I happen to know of an easy (and free) solution that has become very popular with musicians these days. GigaTribe http://www.gigatribe.com/ lets users exchange huge music files (and entire folders of music files). And it's all done within a small private network (like a band), so no one can intercept the encrypted exchanges. There's also a chat window in there, so musicians can explain stuff to each other in real-time.

This, and cheap new recording techniques are making it easier for musicians to collaborate and get their music heard!