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RIAA Says P2P Encourages Illegal Downloads

Posted by Zonk on from the i-heard-IT-departments-also-encourage-bad-security dept.

stlhawkeye writes "The RIAA is at it again, attacking inconvenient technology because it can be abused. They have sent another round of letters to P2P services, asking them to stop "encouraging users" to illegally distribute copyrighted material. eDonkey, LimeWire, and Kazaa are all on the RIAA's hit list, along with 2Hub, BitTorrent, WinMX and Free Peers, maker of file-swapping software BearShare. One wonders how they intend to attack BitTorrent, which can be and is used in legitimate mass distribution efforts of legal material, such as World of Warcraft patches. Are FTP and /usr/sbin/scp next?"

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  1. Re:Hey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's not the availibility of P2P that makes me download music. It's the fact that I CANNOT find good music in ANY store around here.
    MAKE Music not SHIT

    That's very primitive thinking. Are you American btw? So just because you can't find any good music (which is completely subjective) you are forced to download it illegaly? What a great thought. Just because there's no store in my town which sells Ferrari's I will just steal one. What? I am forced since there's no store selling it here.

    What did you do when there was no internet (if you were even born by then)? Did you go to a store and steal a record you liked?

    I'm afraid idiots such as yourself lack common sense. If product A costs money and you can't afford it LEAVE IT ALONE. Or if you're so tuff why don't you go at a local record store and take a CD and copy it? Let's see how long you'll be doing that.