me too Im a well known advocate of Usenet around here.. forget P2P..they suck..and leave you open to detection by the RIAA..
Remember the US courts can only persue file share-ers in the US. For now, download to your hard drive and don't share any files. Let our friends in Holland and Tuvalu share their collections. I'd like to know more about Usenet. I know only that something called alt.sex is out there and Outlook has some way to connect so I really need some step by step instructions, please.
I agree completely, which is exactly why i said before that not sharing one's own files defeats the whole purpose of file sharing!
We discussed it in this thread..start from there...and ask if ya have trouble with it. btw...dont use Outlook or Outlook express...there are lots of much better progs for Usenet
I found a site where you can search to see if your on the list of people getting hit by the RIAA. http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20030725_eff_pr.php
I put my skits on Kazaa and I share them with whoever wants them. Please share away. The artist name for the skits is: BARLEY VON. Feel free to do what ever you want with them. I'd appreciate if you shared them, but if not, oh well. Look up Barley Von in the video section. You Houston guys might be able to get them, I know Austin folks will.
isn't some evidence besides the isp's necessary? can't you ditch your computer??? or at least wipe the drive? maybe not. yeah, they're working on new technology, there are already ways of hiding your ip address.
I dont use Kazaa lite. I just use the regular Kazaa, and i actually dwnld'd the newest version like yesterday. I never have shared files... What's my situation lookin like.... there doesn't seem to be much of a pattern here. by what basis is the riaa , or whoever, doing their user selecting.
Ok, here's my queston, what if u share anime, unlicencesed from kazaa, is that copyright violatin? No one seems to be answering my question
I think the anime company would have to go after you, the RIAA only goes after music file traders. Unless i'm missing something--
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/2003-07-29-riaa_x.htm Students face swapping rules By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY When students arrive in New Haven, Conn., next month for their freshman orientation at Yale, they'll hear about more than academics and campus life. After four college students were sued last spring by the record industry for online song swapping and a flurry of subpoenas just sent to universities and Internet providers to identify more swappers, "we have new language in our undergraduate regulations and are planning an added emphasis on this topic," says Yale general counsel Dorothy Kathryn Robinson. Students at Princeton, Michigan Tech and Rensselaer settled in the spring with the Recording Industry Association of America with fines from $12,000 to $17,500. The RIAA plans to launch "hundreds" more suits in early September, in an unprecedented attack on individual users intended to stem the profligate piracy that has contributed to an 8.3% drop in sales in the past year. "I expect that students will be much more aware of the possible consequences of illegal music downloading and much more sober about it," says Robinson. Robinson sits on an educators committee the RIAA formed to try and tackle the growing problems of piracy — serious worldwide but worst on campus, where music-loving students move from slow home hookups to speedy campus networks capable of downloading songs in seconds. "I liken it to going from a bubble gum machine to a fully stocked candy store," says Sheldon Steinbach, vice president of the American Council on Education, a trade group that represents 1,800 universities on legislative issues. This year's orientations "will be night and day" compared to last year's, Steinbach says, in terms of tough talk about unauthorized downloading and how it violates conduct codes, the potential loss of Net use for violators and other school penalties, as well as thousands of dollars in fines. Steinbach admits that having any of this sink in is an uphill battle. "Students live in their own world," he says. "They have this perception of non-vulnerability. ... Until it happens to them, they won't believe it." Kazaa, the most popular free swap service, counts more than 250 million users worldwide. Legitimate alternatives such as Pressplay and MusicNet have fewer than 300,000 combined. "The numbers are too enormous for this kind of tactic to have any kind of immediate effect," says University of Southern California professor Douglas Thomas, who teaches about technology and media issues. Graham Spanier, president of Penn State University, has been pushing for a "music technology" fee to be built into the costs of attending college. "There's clearly a market for music at the college level," says Rick Mickool, executive director for information services at Northeastern University. Mickool's department recently received a subpoena seeking the identity of a student, as did Boston University, Boston College, MIT, Bentley, Loyola and DePaul. Not all complied with the subpoenas. Northeastern did. In 1999, 18-year-old Northeastern student Shawn Fanning invented Napster, which kicked off the online music-sharing revolution, in his dorm room. Now, so much of the university's bandwidth is used for song swapping that the school instituted "traffic shaping" technology to give precedence to classroom online activities.
