The Smashing Pumpkins have been major supporters of digital music, they infact made their entire last studio album, Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Music 100% free for download on the internet. At their website you can also find many MP3's of some of their latest commercially availiable music. They also have often times stated that they fully approve of live recordings, and Billy Corgan's new band Zwan has live recordings availiable on their website.
...doesn't it seem like them simply collecting information (presumably a file list or something along those lines) doesn't necessarily mean that your files are pirated, or in anyway illegal?
the obvious aside (i.e. having a directory called E:\####ZERAW4EVR#####\ _0DAY_ \GAMEZ\SHADOW WARRIOR - RAZOR) shared on your P2P share...) doesn't the crime not really take place until you actually transmit the file, or in the case of the DMCPA circumvent copy protection?
I don't see how they have enough serious evidence to really do much legally if all they are doing is "looking" at what you have "publicly available" because a file called Harold&Maude.divx doesn't mean that I used DeCSS to copy a DVD movie onto my hard drive that I don't own the rights to - short of actually downloading the file, and somehow verifying that the source actually does violate the DMCPA, and is not just fair use. (i.e. a digital copy made of a video cassette, to prevent quality degradation over time)
As far as I know, having open ports, and or running protocols on your machine is not yet a crime.
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The Smashing Pumpkins have been major supporters of digital music, they infact made their entire last studio album, Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Music 100% free for download on the internet. At their website you can also find many MP3's of some of their latest commercially availiable music. They also have often times stated that they fully approve of live recordings, and Billy Corgan's new band Zwan has live recordings availiable on their website.
...doesn't it seem like them simply collecting information (presumably a file list or something along those lines) doesn't necessarily mean that your files are pirated, or in anyway illegal?
the obvious aside (i.e. having a directory called E:\####ZERAW4EVR#####\ _0DAY_ \GAMEZ\SHADOW WARRIOR - RAZOR) shared on your P2P share...) doesn't the crime not really take place until you actually transmit the file, or in the case of the DMCPA circumvent copy protection?
I don't see how they have enough serious evidence to really do much legally if all they are doing is "looking" at what you have "publicly available" because a file called Harold&Maude.divx doesn't mean that I used DeCSS to copy a DVD movie onto my hard drive that I don't own the rights to - short of actually downloading the file, and somehow verifying that the source actually does violate the DMCPA, and is not just fair use. (i.e. a digital copy made of a video cassette, to prevent quality degradation over time)
As far as I know, having open ports, and or running protocols on your machine is not yet a crime.