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The War Between p2p and Record Companies Heating Up?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the escalating-arms-race dept.

the-dude-man writes "Securityfocus.com Reports that there may be a new nasty turn to the battle between the p2p networks and the RIAA/MPAA. recently, the RIAA has been trying to flood kazza with files that appear to be valid copyrighted material (movies,mp3s, ect) but are empty or, in one case, of Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, contain a voice file asking, "What the f*ck do you think you are doing?". The p2p networks are considering a possible move agianst the RIAA in response to this by using recently enacted anti-spam laws."

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  1. I can see what would happen... by eet23 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I download a fake mp3.

    I sue the RIAA for $1.00 or something

    I have to spend it quickly, because the RIAA is about to sue me for $17,000.

    I'm not going to be the one who simultaneously antagonises the RIAA and admits in court that I tried to pirate music.

    1. Re:I can see what would happen... by tmark · · Score: 4, Interesting

      ...DRM technologies that destroy our fair use as consumers. Our problem with them is not that they are trying to prevent us from stealing music.

      You're wrong. *Some* people are legitimately considered with fair use issues. A lot of other people aren't. A lot of people seem to think that record companies "need to adapt", which seems to be a shorthand for "sell things to us in the manner we want them sold, all terms dictated by us, and the price we want them sold at". If the record companies don't give in on all terms, these people think it's OK for them to do whatever they want.

      "fair use" is getting thrown around a lot, but I bet a good portion of people crying "fair use" have downloaded music they have no claim to fair use for.

  2. This probably won't fly by stevezero · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most courts in an illegal contract will just leave the parties as they stand, unless one party can show less culpability such that they should be allowed some relief. The court could construe that by advertising a copyrighted work on a P2P network, that in itself is illegal, and therefore, whoever recieves that file would not be able to claim that they were defrauded by getting a fake file. While it's a nice conflict of law here, I don't think it will fly.

  3. Re:A pity... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed. P2P networks may be largely used to facilitate copyright infringing distribution of music, movies, books etc but lately I use it for downloading legitimate files such as game demos, movie trailers, and free software updates (whether those updates are for free software, or games and other software I have paid for). P2P is incredibly useful in this regard. I don't have to register with gamespy or wait in a long queue for my download. Long live P2P. RIAA - grow up, evolve, or die.

  4. Re:explain this to me by the-dude-man · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you really havent been on kazza much have you?

    I've backed up my home directory, all my software devlopment stuff..and docs...totaling about 650 megs after bzip...i gpg it with a 4096 bit key...then name it blade2.dvd.rip.avi and share it on kazza...ii did that 2 months ago and when i do a search for it i still find it on peoples shared folders..for some stupid reason people just dont delete stuff that turns out to be bad more often than not.

    Ah well...kazza makes a great backup system

  5. It was amusing how she got hacked after that.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    After Madona flooded the P2Ps with mp3s of her repeatedly saying "what the fuck do you think you're doing?" somone took an appropriate response by hacking her website, posting her full new album on it, and writting "This is what the fuck I think I'm doing..."

  6. Re:This of course will force the networks to evolv by TheKey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Soulseek, the P2P client, doesn't really have problems like that because of its more community-oriented nature. I have about 10 users that I download albums from who I know always have real mp3s ID3ed correctly at 192kbps.

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  7. Wrong. by HanzoSan · · Score: 4, Interesting



    I'll make music, so will every other musician, do you know why? The musicians dont make money selling CDs, we make money selling concert tickets!

    I'd spread my music all over the net, just so I can sellout at all my concerts and make $20,000 in a day, about the same amount I'd make in a year selling CDs if I made anything at all.

    Theres no shortage of wannabe musicians, some which have talent, I suggest you go outside more, theres free concerts all the time all over the place, because musicians are desperate for fans.

    Fans matter more than CD sales, CD sales only matter to record companies, Fans go to concerts, buy Tshirts, and give musicians the big money.

    A musician is not a doctor or engineer, you arent trained to do it, you can take a kid and give him a mic and this kid could be the best singer of all time (Think Michael Jackson),

    Under this Model we will have increased supply, the quality will be just as good, but because there will be more to choose from, YOU might not like alot of the new music flooding the market, this doesnt change the fact that there will be alot of music you will like.

    Whats wrong with increasing the supply? Music is not a profession its an art.

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