Ok, so say you get served with a subpeona. The RIAA [read evil money hungry bunch of monkeys] supposedly has records that you have infringed upon copyrighted music. When you get to court you make sure you bring a laptop...when they say, [in nasalated evil lawyer tone] "Mr. Doe, we have evidence that your hard drive on DATE contained the following copyrighted songs, LIST." You reply by asking them if they have proof that the files were legimitate MP3s, OGGs or whatever. Did they actually listen to the "songs", do they have a copy of said songs showing with out a doubt that it came from your computer, with them right then and there? Then, you take your laptop and show the judge how easy it is to rename a 4-8MB file artist-song.mp3 Tada! Now you have what looks like a song, but it's really not. Now the only trouble with this approach is if the RIAA [read evil money hungry bunch of monkeys] actually has proof that they were real music files and that they came from your computer, etc...
You know, the main reason people share MP3s is due to the fact that 99.99999999% of CDs have one or at the most two good songs and the rest is CRAP! The RIAA start a custom CD service where they pop 10-14 songs on a CD and then ship it to you, it would probably drastically reduce the (still to be deterimined if) illegal filesharing. That's my two cents.
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Ok, so say you get served with a subpeona. The RIAA [read evil money hungry bunch of monkeys] supposedly has records that you have infringed upon copyrighted music. When you get to court you make sure you bring a laptop...when they say, [in nasalated evil lawyer tone] "Mr. Doe, we have evidence that your hard drive on DATE contained the following copyrighted songs, LIST." You reply by asking them if they have proof that the files were legimitate MP3s, OGGs or whatever. Did they actually listen to the "songs", do they have a copy of said songs showing with out a doubt that it came from your computer, with them right then and there? Then, you take your laptop and show the judge how easy it is to rename a 4-8MB file artist-song.mp3 Tada! Now you have what looks like a song, but it's really not. Now the only trouble with this approach is if the RIAA [read evil money hungry bunch of monkeys] actually has proof that they were real music files and that they came from your computer, etc...
You know, the main reason people share MP3s is due to the fact that 99.99999999% of CDs have one or at the most two good songs and the rest is CRAP! The RIAA start a custom CD service where they pop 10-14 songs on a CD and then ship it to you, it would probably drastically reduce the (still to be deterimined if) illegal filesharing. That's my two cents.