There are people out there that freak out when you tell them they can just go online and grab stuff you want to see or hear for free. They panic because they just heard on the news about how the record or movie company just went after a bunch of people. So for the 'tards, it's effective.
Notice that we're talking about these companies filing lawsuits guys. That's because they tried to have this stuff procecuted but the courts sais "nuh-uh". Some of these companies went after Grokster and the like a few years ago. The court ruled that as long as this was peer to peer sharing, not material downloaded from a central server, it was perfectly legal. And that's right. Peer to peer is just like loaning a CD to a friend who loans it to a friend, etc. So the best that these shmucks can do is make a nuisance of themselves. Which is what recently happened to a bunch of my buddies at UCSD. 400 individuals got slapped with personal lawsuits from record companies. It won't stand up in court, but it's the best they can do to curtail the sharing.
Screw that. I paid enough money for all this hardware. Who cares it the record companies can't squeeze another 99 cents out of me for the latest Nelly download.
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There are people out there that freak out when you tell them they can just go online and grab stuff you want to see or hear for free. They panic because they just heard on the news about how the record or movie company just went after a bunch of people. So for the 'tards, it's effective.
Notice that we're talking about these companies filing lawsuits guys. That's because they tried to have this stuff procecuted but the courts sais "nuh-uh". Some of these companies went after Grokster and the like a few years ago. The court ruled that as long as this was peer to peer sharing, not material downloaded from a central server, it was perfectly legal. And that's right. Peer to peer is just like loaning a CD to a friend who loans it to a friend, etc. So the best that these shmucks can do is make a nuisance of themselves. Which is what recently happened to a bunch of my buddies at UCSD. 400 individuals got slapped with personal lawsuits from record companies. It won't stand up in court, but it's the best they can do to curtail the sharing. Screw that. I paid enough money for all this hardware. Who cares it the record companies can't squeeze another 99 cents out of me for the latest Nelly download.