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'."

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[Peterus7]

Several new freaky ghost ships have appeared in the atlantic (approx 10% more), intent on capturing the 'maiden' Hilary Rosen and making her walk the plank.

I have a friend who was planning on recording himself singing pirate songs, then sending it into the RIAA to see what would happen.

Last I heard, they were considering him for a label.

Re:Anecdotal Evidence - not so good

[geckofiend]

Ummm if you're downloading music from a file sharing network you ARE a freeloader and a thief. There's no assumption about it.

For crying out loud i'm so sick of this topic. If you don't want trouble from the big bad RIAA then for crying out loud STOP TRADING SONGS!! Otherwise quit your bitchin.

Re:Anecdotal Evidence - not so good

[tychay]

That also reminds me of an IRC command that experienced people tell to newbies: /join #2,000 I don't know exactly how, but what it really does is leave all currently joined channel instead of joining that #2,000 channel.

That's easy. Your IRC client treats commas as a delimiter for multiple entries. So what you are doing is issuing a ":join #2" and then a ":join 0". 0 is a short cut for leaving all currently open channels (it's the channel you are join'd to when you first log in).

There were a lot of those snide commands in the old days, most of them involved obscure shortcuts to an irc clients signoff commands: "/sign operator on"