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Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users
Moldy-Rutabaga writes "Technews says filesharing
has gone up 10% on some sites such as Grokster since the Recording Industry
Association of America's announcement on June 25 that it will start tracking down
and suing users of file-sharing programs. Wayne Rosso, president of Grokster,
commented 'even genocidal litigation can't stop
file sharers'."
1. Initiate a download.
2. Do a netstat.
3. Write down IP address and date/time.
4. Contact ISP and request user information after providing IP address.
Get an IP address
Look up Address with whois
Send a letter tot he required contact field citing the DMCA demanding all the info for who was logged in on IP address at date/time
Receive responce file suit to owner of the account. Or collect and wait you have time to file after all.
It's a pretty straight forward the DCMA abusing the right to due proccess. Yea having to go to civil court to get a supena for the info wasent much harder but at least it was another step. Oh yea I can do this as I own copyrighted (just about everybody does) and just need to be reasonably sure of infringment with no oversite isnt it great you can look up people on IRC etc now?
No sir I dont like it.
Has anyone tried Earthstation5?
supports SSL, Proxys, tunneling of UDP though port 80 and some other goodies to hide from ISP's, RIAA, etc?
I've downloaded and tried it and was quite happy with it. You take a speed hit for your privacy but when the RIAA is screaming bloody murder it might be the only alternitive. Now all we have to do is e-mail them like made to get it ported to other OS's!
-- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
My Gnutella node was loaded down with Linux ISOs, Cygwin software, and free ebooks (mainly PG texts). I say was because when this announcement came out, I decided getting caught in the crossfire was too high a risk (even if my offerings are 100% legitimate) and removed myself from the P2P scene. Given the RIAA's violent thrashings here -- for example, suing the college students for running mere indexing services -- I'm standing as far back as I can to watch the dinosaur's death throes. I'm sure I am not alone in that attitude, and the P2P traffic went up 10% anyway. I'm sure when you start seeing the stories entitled such things as "10,000 file traders arrested" we'll start seeing the boycott movement start in earnest.
Do you like Japanese imports?
It's true.
/. speculated, the RIAA's setting their sights on the end users is spurring the creation of P2P systems where the identity of the end user and/or what they are sharing are practically impossible to ascertain.
Just as many here on
Nothing motivates people quite like the fear, however small, of being prosecuted and having to cough up your life's savings to a bunch of greedy bastards.
Memo to RIAA: Just give up, okay? You made your bed with the years of overcharging and price-fixing, now it's time to lie in it. Your customers are fed up with being overcharged and assumed to be criminals. If I have to pay you a piracy tax for every blank CD I'm buying, then I'm going to download some shit-- after all, I've already paid you for it.
Your business model has been obsoleted. Get with the times, give the people what they want, or prepare for termination.
Lot's of search sites has emerged so you can pick and choose what you want, and leaving a few uploads open all the time as quid pro quo.
You can even rate the stuff out there.
Help fight continental drift.
The example of Prohibition shows that if enough people regard a law as a bad one, it will eventually fall. If enough people believe that there is a de facto monopoly in the music business which results in the product being hugely over-priced and managers being over-rewarded, and they choose to circumvent that over-pricing, the effect is no different from if they simply stop buying the product altogether, which is legal.
I can't resist a plug at this point for Terry Pratchett's book Soul Music which manages to make some of the issues amusing.
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
This, ironically, is what many of Napster's defenders said they should be doing back when the RIAA was threating Napster instead.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=what is
:o)
"Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are "routed-through" other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine who is requesting the information and what its content is."
" The network can be used in a number of different ways and isn't restricted to just sharing files like other peer-to-peer networks. It acts more like an Internet within an Internet. For example Freenet can be used for:
* Publishing websites or 'freesites'
* Communicating via message boards
* Playing simple turn-based games like Chess
* Content distribution "
It's been around for awhile
If any, definitely Kazaa.
Naturally when you say "Kazaa" you mean Kazaa Lite. (All the file sharing, with none of the spyware or adware popups.)
According to the logs I keep of kazaa's traffic, usage has declined by something like 2%... Maybe I'm not getting the whole picture. The way I sample the data to make the pretty plot is simply by reading from my kazaalite client's status bar, and logging those numbers (users, files, GiB) to a text file which I massage with php+gd every once in a while.
Let me know if you need more data, I have over a years worth.
Most people I've know that do P2P, not counting the computer geeks, don't even know what the RIAA is. Nor do they care that the RIAA is ripping people off. They just know that they can download a song they like for FREE. They don't understand or care that it is stealing or if they do they figure it is a victimless crime because they don't have to faceoff a shopkeeper while trying to shove a CD down their pant leg.
Slashdot, home of supporters of free software, free music, and free speech.Except for Moderators that disagree with you.
For 1, please do a little spellchecking "as in, how can you 'raed' on prohibition" people will take you more seriously, and 2, the person was talking about if Corporate America gets a hold of marijuana, then there is numerous ways that they could ruin it like "Big Tobacco" has ruined tobacco.
What I mean by it is cigarettes originally started in the siege of Acre, during the Napoleonic Wars in the 1830s, and the first time it was in widespread use in the US was during the Civil War. That was when the tobacco in cigarettes was pure.
Then in the 1940s it became commercialized, and Corporations began adding additives here and there so people would inhale the cigarette smoke so they would become addicted. Now there is over 600 Chemicals in cigarette tobacco, just to keep people addicted.
So imagine what Corporate America will do with marijuana, I can just see someone addicted to both THC and nicotine.
I think that's the point jcsehak was trying to make.
Looks like they can be found here (in both HTML and "plain" text).
#1 Those people have nothing to worry about from the RIAA.
#2 I'd bet a weeks pay that those account for less than one percent of P2P downloads.
"Oh, the tragedy of math gone wrong. I can't even talk about it." -Wil Wheaton http://www.wilwheaton.net
No, that's not the only practical way. In fact, with the eDonkey network you can link from web sites "into" the p2p net using ed2k://|name|size|MD4 hash| links. If you click on it your already running eMule/mldonkey/whatever will pick up the info and start downloading if you've setup the whole thing properly.
The artists could easily set up a web page and link to their work this way.
Have you ever seen this site or this? I have never searched the eDonkey network using an eDonkey client, those "meta" pages are the way now.
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6