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Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the strange-magic dept.

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'."

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  1. Re:How? by gilesjuk · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. New P2P by Pros_n_Cons · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

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  3. Personal Take by Catiline · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  4. bitTorrent by bstadil · · Score: 3, Informative
    Why use this old system when your are perfectly safe using Bit-torrent?

    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.

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    1. Re:bitTorrent by elohim · · Score: 4, Informative

      http://www.lowta.cx/upload/c/comcastwtf.png

      Interesting stuff. I'll be using PeerGuardian from now on.

    2. Re:bitTorrent by Yosho · · Score: 5, Informative

      How does BitTorrent make you any more safe than any other filesharing system? In fact, I think it would be trivial for someone working with law enforcement to go through search sites like the one you just listed with a client such as this one and grab the IPs of everybody downloading the file.

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  5. Re:Haha! by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Informative
    They're not going after networks any longer, just the most gratuitous servers (ie the users who have the most unauthorized content available.)

    This, ironically, is what many of Napster's defenders said they should be doing back when the RIAA was threating Napster instead.

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  6. Re:eDonkey vs. Kazaa by CharterTerminal · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.)

  7. kazaa/fasttrack usage by millette · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  8. Re:How? by comcn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looks like they can be found here (in both HTML and "plain" text).

  9. Re:Anecdotal Evidence - not so good by TCM · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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