File-sharing and AOL

Andrew Leonard writes "Farhad Manjoo's cover story in Salon today, on AOL's refusal to take a stand on the RIAA's (so far) successful attempt to get subscriber information from Verizon, is a detailed look at the most important battle in the file-sharing world right now."

Comments

Was that my IP?

[crisco]

All that the record industry had on the alleged thief was an eight-digit Internet protocol address, 141.158.104.94.

Hmm, I wonder what my IP was last July 15th...

Re:Was that my IP?

[kruetz]

Hexadecimal? It becomes: 8D.9E.68.5E ... but then again, since the RIAA can't even count burners (maybe they were using octal, so 150 becomes 104!) it's more likely they got lost counting the digits in the IP address - "one, two, three, ... three ... ummm ... oh hell, there can't be more than eight! yeah! there's eight!"

Heheheh...

[YellowElectricRat]

From the article:

All that the record industry had on the alleged thief was an eight-digit Internet protocol address, 141.158.104.94

...and a nasty case of trying to count without taking their socks off... :)

This doesn't make any sense.

[goatasaur]

It takes, like, five hours to download an MP3 on AOL.

Re:This doesn't make any sense.

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

And does it go "beep beep beep beep beep beep" and then half of your MP3 is gone?

Great.

[mikeophile]

Not only are all the tech jobs going overseas, but now the US is going to lose it's warez site superiority too.

ATTENTION RIAA! NO NEED TO CONTACT MY ISP

[Veovis]

I just downloaded Metallica's "Enter Sandman" from the following P2P network:

Kazaa

My IP is 204.39.65.157, a proxy

My information is:

Home Address:
John Abshire
14387 SeeYouInCourt
Whatareyougonnadoaboutit, MI, 48hahaha

You may also contact me at my work address:
John Abshire
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA USA 98052-8300

Re:ATTENTION RIAA! NO NEED TO CONTACT MY ISP

[kruetz]

Pity the poor bloke that actually lives on SeeYouInCourt Rd, Whatareyougonnadoaboutit. "Alright, buddy, get in the van!" "What? What's this about?" "We know you've been downloading illegal MP3s. Now move it!" "But I don't even own a computer! I only moved in last week!" "Look buddy, we saw your post on slashdot. Now're you're fucked!" -- slashdot nabs another net-thief

Yea, Right

[Veovis]

Dialing..... Connecting... Loading... WELCOME! YOU GOT LAWSUIT!

8, 12, what's three digits between friends?

[autopr0n]

All that the record industry had on the alleged thief was an eight-digit Internet protocol address, 141.158.104.94

Of course, it would have been 8 digits if it was written in Hex. maybe the author was just a hard-core nerd? And thought, digit = 4bits?

Patrick Henry, Slave Owner

[handy_vandal]

Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty or give me death" -- but he didn't say it to the slaves working his plantation.

"He concedes the evil, laments his entrapment in the system, suggests it will be abolished in the fullness of time, and declares that he will transmit to posterity, together with his slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery. Henry was skilled at the politics of gesture and brave in defiance of convention, but on this issue -- the gravest and most fateful in our history -- [he followed] the common path of least resistance and left successor generations to sip the sorrow of his era's default."

The Political Legacy of Patrick Henry

heyyyy

[The Other White Boy]

wait a minute ... people still use aol?? now that's what i call a news story!

666

[rolux]

from the article:

The RIAA analyst who logged in to Kazaa last July 15 discovered that the Verizon subscriber had 666 music files available for others to download

and, imagine: he or she had even set the file permissions to 0666!!

All that the record industry had on the alleged thief was an eight-digit Internet protocol address, 141.158.104.94

so, lets see... 1+4+1=6... 1+5=6... 8 ("eight-digit internet protocol address") is the 6th digit... 104+94=66+66+66...

bring on the californian inquisition!

Welcome!

[grub]

You've Got Warez!

RIAA taps AOL chatroom

[grub]

Welcome to: w4r3z_w4ld0

40L_h4x0r: g1bb0r m3 j00r ju4r3zzzz!
h4x0r_g0d: gn0, j00 g1bb0r m3 j0000r ju4r3zzz!!!
40L_h4x0r: J00 f4gg0rzzz!! G1BB0R M3 J002930mczxcfsdf lsd3 0 013
###CARRIER LOST
***40L_h4x0r has joined w4r3z-w4ld0
40L_h4x0r: where was I.. oh ya.. G1BBOT M3 J00R JU4R333ZZZZ F4GG000RRRRZZZZ!!!!

Now I see why the RIAA is so worried. Crime as organized as this is a threat to everything that keeps democracy flowing.

Report

[Malicious]

I say we report to the RIAA Officials that we've found Millions of Illegal MP3's on IP 127.0.0.1

See what happens.

Re:I don't see the big deal

[appleprophet]

"If _I_ had an ISP, I wouldn't comment either (I'd just go for another swim in my money....)"

Considering AOL just posted a loss larger than Russia's entire budget, I don't think money swimming is a common sport over there.

Will they include the sound...

[bobdotorg]

So in version 11 of AOL's software, after a few downloads can we expect to hear, "You've got busted" ?