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Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP

Posted by Zonk on from the i-would-guess-it's-quite-a-bit-more-actually dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "According to a new report by Digital Music News, 36.4% of the world's computers have LimeWire installed. Given their claim that filling an iPod legally would cost about $40,000, they're pretty sure that most of those computers are infringing upon at least a few imaginary property rights. BitTorrent shouldn't feel left out, though. BitTorrent actually uses more bandwidth, but the article suggests that this is because it is used to share larger files, like movies."

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  1. It always amuses me by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Informative

    Haven't they heard of NNTP?

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    1. Re:It always amuses me by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Haven't they heard of NNTP? Yes.
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    2. Re:It always amuses me by c_g_hills · · Score: 5, Informative

      usenet.com is commonly confused with Usenet. One is a for-profit company; the other is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system.

    3. Re:It always amuses me by arivanov · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yes and no. NNTP stands for network news transfer protocol. It has to be news. If it is not, the server very happily wipes it out. Most servers do not keep anything for more than a couple of days. After that it is gone for good (or for bad as some libel cases in the UK have proved).

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  2. Nice title slashdot by moogied · · Score: 4, Informative
    Jesus christ, do we have 10 year olds running the headlines now?

    Your Rights Online: Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP

    ...uh no it doesn't. It says 36.4 use limewire. It does not then say "100% of limewire usage infringes on IP."

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    So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
  3. Re:Constitutional Rights? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The article is mostly concerned with Limewire, not Bittorrent.

  4. Re:$40,000 iPods? by honestmonkey · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well it says "iPod" and not what size. I did an estimate with an 80GB size. I came up with ~$17000 to fill it (20000 songs says Apple). I am guessing that most of my CDs have 12 or so songs on them. If you just use the $0.99 a song from iTunes, then it would of course be ~$20000. There is a 160GB version, so I suppose that is the $40000 they are figuring on. But, I've got a bunch of albums I've bought legally for less than $10 an album, so I don't think that it would cost me the full $40K. Worst case scenario I suppose.

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  5. $40k? Why do I doubt that? by meatmanek · · Score: 2, Informative

    My iPod has 3489 songs on it, that's 19.49 gigs, which means about 5.5 megs per song. Until they come out with a 250 gig iPod, I disagree that it would cost $40,000 to fill one.

  6. Re:Constitutional Rights? by blueg3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Certainly you understand that statistics and expressed opinions have nothing to do with constitutional rights. They're free to make estimates and inferences all they want.

  7. Re:36.4% of the world's computers have LimeWire in by Locklin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indie artists can use HTTP (and Torrent if necessary), theres plenty of willing hosts.

    The Live Music Archive The live music archive provides high quality live concerts in a download-able format. The Internet Archive aims preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. Jamendo Jamendo offers free access and free download of music tracks, published with Creative Commons licences. On Jamendo, the Artists choose to give access to their music for free to the users. Users are encouraged to donate to artists, and artists earn money from add revenue. Magnature Listen to complete albums for free. If you like what you hear, download an album for as little as $5 (you pick the price), or buy a real CD, or license our music for commercial use. MP3s & WAVs, and no copy protection (DRM). FreeIndie.com A smaller selection of independent artists in various genres. Free to download. IndieFeed A free podcast of independent artists from around the world. CBC Radio 3 A popular weekly podcast featuring new Canadian rock, pop, hip-hop, singer-songwriters, alt-country and electronica.
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  8. Missing options, this poll sucks by DrYak · · Score: 3, Informative

    Becuase I have bittorrent installed to download Mandrake, I *MUST* have illegal things on my machine?

    Yeah, exactly.

    Attention **IA, this is my current seed list, you insensitive clod :It's either opensource software, or a couple of movie which are freely available.

    So could now please all this stupid companies stop equating "Peer 2 peer" with "Imaginary Property infringements" ?
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  9. Re:36.4% of the world's computers have LimeWire in by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 2, Informative

    but if I were to download a 'backup' of one of my legally purchased CDs--mind you, I'd -never- infringe on a copyright, goodness

    You just admitted that you did. It's just as illegal to download a copy of a CD that you own than it is to download a copy of a CD that you don't own. That's the way it works - when you buy a CD you buy limited rights to play that *exact CD* on your CD player. That's all. Sucks, but that's the way it is.

  10. It's actually 17.92% by Alibloke · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out this article that's recently appeared on Torrentfreak
    It states that the number of 36.4% is incorrect and it's actually more like ~18%, it seems that someone got their sums wrong....