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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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    -- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
  3. 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.

  4. 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: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.)

  6. 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.

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

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