Slashdot Mirror
RIAA Files 531 More Lawsuits
nuclear305 writes "CNN is reporting that the RIAA has filed 531 'John Doe' lawsuits against defendants in Atlanta; Philadelphia; Orlando, Florida; and Trenton, New Jersey. Of course, once these thugs find out who you are, you can pay them off for the small fee averaging $3,000."
no no No No NO!!!
You are in charge of your Internet connection, you signed the EULA, you pay the bills, you answer the lawsuit. It doesn't need to be beyond a reasonable doubt, it merely needs to be proved.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Objects in the blog are closer then they ap
I've been wondering about this, searching for Trance/Psy-Goa/Techno, I have to search online to listen. Only some online radio, and no local stations play this type of music.
.ra format, sold me. Bought 2 cd's.
I'd love to be able to search Itunes or Napster2 and find the music I like, but other than using itunes to look popular songs, and using napster to download music videos, the online selection is rather limited.
I find more music just searching with the terms on a p2p network, all kinds of music I never heard. In fact, I found some 1200 mics that just rocks. Never heard of it, did a google, found a website with tracks in
So, yes, p2p makes me buy music. (Wish I could find DJ Mixes for sale)
BTW, I still use kazaa sometimes, but I dont share on kazaa, I have other p2p clients, I'll use those for sharing until something more secure comes out. (Yes, I use ip blacklists too, and no usernames) Even thinking of getting Vanautu VPN service.
-
The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it. - John Gilmore
The recent Verizon decision says ISPs have no responsibility under the DMCA safe harbor to monitor or control access related to P2P activity, anyway.
Thus, your ISP should have told microsoft to pound sand rather than suspending your account. Even if you had been distributing the MS source rather than Linux.
See the court's deicion (the relevant text begins on bottom half of page 7 and especially on page 10.
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on Slashdot.
Using lame with Easy CD-DA extractor on my 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 processor, and a 40x CD-rom I still can't encode faster than 5x.
Sure, if I encoded using Xing, I could encode 32x realtime from cd on my old 800 Mhz, but you get what you pay for. That goes for time as well.
The MP3's I get from lame (usally preset: extreme) beats the hell out of the ones I gett from Xing at any bitrate. You know... Like multipass videoencoding takes alot more time, but results in a better quality/bit-rate.
And... yes. With a good broadband-connection it's faster to download than encoding yourself, but then you'll have to take whatever you get. No quality-control whatsoever.
And then there's meta-data consistency in your MP3-collection. If you got a large hard-drive MP3-player, you really want that meta-data to be correct and consistent.
And, yes, you guessed correct. I make my own MP3s. Downloading is just too much work.
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.
Actually, the artist name is copyrightable :). It just doesn't come up very often.