RIAA tells students: Pay up for downloads

gotta love the great folks at RIAA.

 

Why is no one spoofing their IP? Or why are there not shared file sites that are out of the country?

DD

 

Wasn't there a big trial recently where someone got sued and challenged the $750 per song penalty, and that person won?

$750 a song is outrageous. It's like charging $20 for each CD, IMO. I'm going to leave it at that instead of starting a big rant about the RIAA.

Most students don't know how to do that kind of technical stuff. They're just kids who suddenly get tossed a huge amount of independence and freedom.

 

Sounds like a business opportunity, make it easy to spoof IPs...could work for Poker and downloads.

Base it in China, or Costa Rica or something like that.

DD

 

That will not stop a good monitoring service. Spoofing an IP is hard.

 

...i don't get your math

 

Say for instance a file server with loads of music is available to put stuff up and to download....

And it is in China....how would the RIAA, be able to track it?

DD

 

They can at least shut down the server.

 

If I had 3 grand laying around I wouldn't be downloading songs of the internet.

 

Because most Americans can not read anything but English. So they are limited in where they can go to download music.

 

Yes, but what if the Chinese server was available in English, for a monthly fee, like $5?

And it allowed tons of file sharing?

The RIAA would not be able to shut anything down, right?

DD

 

I think they're in the process of trying to shut down allofmp3.com, which is based in Russia.

 

The RIAA just needs to stop, they are fighting a losing battle. Theres always going to be ways around it, and d-loading music will not stop. CD sales continually go down. I think they need to lower cd prices, and on top of it make the packaging better. Instead of some plastic jewel case, something like Tool did with 10,000 days cd. Might entice people to go out and buy cds. Just my 2 cents.

 

i agree flyer, imo one of the biggest problems is cd prices. as long as they're rising, people are going to keep downloading music. why pay 16 bucks for sufjan stevens' "the avalanche" at tower records (which i did), when you can get it off the internet for free in a minute flat.

 

or maybe they should make music that's actually worth buying.

 

In general yes, but there is good music at there, just have to find it. Then again to some i'm an indie fan boy. Even then, finding that music sometimes takes some d-loading EP's/live shows. Sometimes allowing the band to make giant strides to become popular. Yet they want to take that tool away from people, and continue to make people listen to over half the crap out now.

 

if people hate it so much then why are they downloading it in the first place?

 

Downloading on a public university is probably one of the worst things you can do. The RIAA, NBC, ABC, etc... whoever will basically threaten to sue the University of they don't give up the identities of the ip's that are downloading or they are obligated to give the info since their are government run (one or the other). Outside companies, such as Time Warner have the right to protect the privacy of their customers. Well...this is what one of my knowledgeable friends told me. He is a big computer guy, so I think this is true. If anyone know more info, post it and let us know.

Also, from what I hear...they target the sharer not the downloader.