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Shifting From P2P To Stream Ripping
An anonymous reader submits "As users continue to try fending off the ever more litigious music industry, some
seem to have dropped P2P entirely, moving to ripping instead. While
they lose some control over what they are downloading, it's a untraceable way
to download music (no way for the RIAA to track users or sue). With some
of the more powerful software that's been coming out recently, stream
ripping has become more main-stream. Some of the more well known software
packages, like StationRipper, allow
users to download several thousand songs on a daily basis. And, depending
on how you read the law, it's 100% legal. How will the RIAA respond?
As more users move to this type of technology to avoid the P2P lawsuits, how
will the music industry respond?"
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How about "Having halfway crossed the legal hurdles, stream ripping still has quite an upriver swim before it becomes mainstream"
Or maybe "Stream ripping, while not quite the open floodgates that bittorrent is, is gaining in popularity..."
Or, if you don't like it, "Stream ripping may soon come under the guns of the RIAA and have nowhere to go but downstream."
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Try inserting an icepick in your ear and it'll all become clear.
Every time I find a new way to get music, you /. pussies have to pick up on it and show the unwashed masses how to do it! Now radio stations can't handle the traffic. Now the RIAA's on the scent. Now I can't stream rip. Damn you for showing everyone the idea!
[puff puff]
I'm sorry for yelling. But you guys may have just ruined this by giving it this new audience.
Synergy is your friend
Yup, never underestimate the bandwidth of a minivan full of CDROMs...
Oh well, what the hell...
Just whatever you do, don't cross the streams.
No CD is worth that much money.
I buy from BMG Music Club, which has monthly sales, and if you buy during those sales, you get CD's for just under $7 each.
That's a decent deal, and I find I'm willing to buy 6-10 at a time for those prices.
But for $16, Brittany better give me a BJ and agree to not talk when I'm around.
I get the idea that some of these things open up several streams at different times in the song so that they download faster than the music plays, which could be detected.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
Umm... ok. That's exactly the iron-clad legal guarantee I was looking for!
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ