RIAA to halt lawsuits, cozy up to ISP Its about time they came to their senses. I think the days of anarchy on the internet will be coming to a close soon enough. Its still going to be a tough sell as many more sites are going SSL and im sure future protocol will be developed to mask information being sent through the internet.
With Youtube and free car radio that I can switch whenever an ad comes on, screw paying for music. I wouldn't pay for it either way. Music is played out.
Hmm, maybe music wouldn't suck so much if piracy wasn't an issue. Same with all these bad movies coming from Hollywood.
There is no way in hell anyone can stop piracy, it can easily be done and there are countless way you can download/upload stuff. On the internet you cant beat them, you can only join them.
I wonder if the book publishers are going to fine libraries and take library cards away from the people who read books without paying for them. Eventually the RIAA is going to have to realize that they are fighting a losing battle. There is always going to be away to copy music without being detected. They need to get creative and find other ways to make money.
There's a similar landmark court case here in Australia. My ISP "iinet" refused to pass on warnings or cut connections as they believed that the music/movie industry lacked evidence other than an ip address and an 'alleged' crime They do have a point, the entertainment industries are asking ISPs to be 'judge, jury and executioner'. If we commit a crime, it's only fair to go through the criminal process rather than having your Internet on whim.
And they will FAIL again, and us Pirates will get another slight chuckle at their failure. You cannot beat us. We will always be one step ahead. Count on it,
There'll come a day when the caliber of an artist will no longer be measured by the number of their records sold, but by the amount shared.
I cannot say I like this to me it is like this . .. . this would be like the Toll station on the beltway saying ... you come by here too much . .you must be transporting dope so We not going to turn you but. . but we will just charge you more than everyone else or this would be like the Toll station on the beltway saying ... you come by here too much . .you must be transporting dope so We are going to start searching your car . . .. The ISP is suppose to be a conduit . .. it should not be examining the content . . . .It is the road.. but a fricking check point Rocket River
i was thinking about that too...figured that might not work either. i could see lawsuits from that....basically spying on your internet use no? or are they just gonna look at how much bandwith you use, even then they have no proof whats going in/out. either way sharing will continue...they will always be a step ahead
Unless your data is encrypted before you send or receive it, the ISP's know what you're doing. ISP's have already been considering limiting bandwidth cap. Truth of the matter is piracy is eating up their bandwidth, and legit customers use a fraction. ISP's have paid little attention to music piracy because its a blip on their bandwidth, compared to video content. A song averages 4 megs, 1000 songs is at 4 gigs. Downloading a single bluray movie with 1080p is an astounding 18.5 gigs. 720p is at 4.5 gigs. A 40 minute segment (TV show) at 720p is 1.3 gigs and an SD formate is about 350 megs. I personally download my TV shows at 720p. I keep up with about 10 shows. 10 shows with 24 episodes is over 310 gigs per season alone. Keep in mind some are downloading much more than that, including movies and games.
You just can't sue your customer, especially when the biggest download group is also your biggest customer group. I think this might also have to do with difficult bringing suits against gross roots leechers. In the Napster days, it was easy to pin a teenager making 800 songs available to public on daily basis. But these days, with the torrent technology, the download activity is much more fluid and subtle. Flies are chopped up, and a downloaded file might have hundred of sources, pieces and bits are coming from here and there, which makes more difficult for RIAA to pin any particular leecher.
Don't forget not all file sharing are illegal. It's one thing to say you are sharing files with others and another thing to say what you do involves copyrighted material. ISP can certainly cache your internet data if find you suspicious, but I doubt ISP has the incentive to do that. There are always those dumb downloader, who will never cease to exist for RIAA to sue. But that didn't seem to slow down the downloading activities. The best strategy for movie and music studio is to buy ISPs, and then leechers will think twice before they do it.
