File Swapping and RIAA

[Mitchell]

Has the recent and past threats by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to file lawsuits against individuals affected your file downloading habits?

See this article for details:

RIAA aims big guns at individual file swappers

[Sweeper]

I was watching a story about it last night. They are now allowed to "TROLL" file swapping web-sites and if they decide to choose you they can and will prosecute.

"Once we begin our evidence-gathering process, any individual computer user who continues to offer music illegally to millions of others will run the very real risk of facing legal action in the form of civil lawsuits that will cost violators thousands of dollars and potentially subject them to criminal prosecution," RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a statement.

[Telexen]

I don't use P2P software they know about ...

[Siliconjunkie]

Easy answer is that if you do P2P, don't share. I know this breaks the system and that is what they are hoping for, but you gotta look out for #1.

Or, if you are so inclined make an mp3 of you saying what you think of the RIAA and give it a popular song title. Share a few thousand of them and let the RIAA go nuts. Enough people do this and they will have to resort to actually looking at what you have, not just titles.

[BadRuski]

"It is morally and ethically correct that you should share your possessions with others, and you are free to make this decision in your own way..." Christianity and Freedom

[Mike]

ROFL Siliconjunkie! I may just do that. hmm they'd probably still try and sue anyway.
Right now they have been going after college kids only, they also said that they were randomly picking people (riiight)

University students can't do anything fun anymore.

[Bill in SD, CA]

BadRuski, welcome to TechIMO.

Strange response to the thread.






Bill

[SeanC]

Sounds like a plan Siliconjunkie. Although you have to be careful about that as well because they would probably try to sue you for public slander.

Whether that would fly in court, who knows now-a-days.

Sean

[originel]

i actually stopped sharing files a few months ago...not really by choice though. as it has been mentioned, they've been going after college students for a while, and since i lived in a dorm at the time it was either stop sharing files, or loose my internet entirely so i made the obvious choice.

[SiliconJon]

That's too bad, to. The University users where a major bandwith contributor to the networks.

Of course, that's why they went after them so quickly. And the U's don't mind enforcing the "law" and freeing up bandwidth at the same time.