I don’t know how many techies are on here, but I saw this on a site I read called Techfocus, and I posted blocks on all of my sites that I run, as well as firewalled the IP’s(it has instructions on the site), I don’t have any music on mine (except for a couple local bands that I design sites for), but still, I don’t really believe in any one interest group controlling the net like they do, first with the DMCA, and now this. I’m almost hoping they make new IP’s to try to go around this, because it’d be a DMCA violation, turn things around on them. Anyway, the reason I posted is if you’re sharing music on kazaa, you might want to block their IP’s since they’ve started going after end users. Just to be on the safe side, you know?
http://techfocus.org/comments.php?catid=17&id=3662
After all I said, I forgot the link
I don’t agree that online music should be controlled by one organization either but people wouldn’t have anything to worry about if they stopped ripping people off. Downloading MP3 files from wherever is no different than walking into a Target and lifting a CD.
How can they tell if what you’re doing is legal or not?? There are still fair-use rights. But the RIAA wants to get rid of those. If they had their way, you’d be paying each time you listened to the song.
Neil
mine are legally given to me by the band, and I was sharing them on kazaa, and still got a letter from the RIAA stating that they downloaded MP3’s from my IP address, and they are requesting that I delete them from my system. That’s why their IP is blocked, now if they state that they know I didn’t, then that means they illegally went around my system protection schemes, and that’s a BIG nono in the DMCA
What the fuck. Technically, you are allowed to have MP3s for a 24 hour test period. How are they going to control that with IP adresses alone? They would have to log far more than that and dig deeper. Isn`t P2P designed to prevent this by the way?
According to what I’ve understood from things so far, they’re signed onto the P2P clients and Kazaa (not Kazaa lite though) lets a person view the users entire list of whats on someones shared folder, and they start downloading, and I’ve heard different values for fines per song they get from a user. Sucks though, these people are just being bullies, that’s why i’ve got them blocked from websites that don’t even have anything to do with it. It’s just principle.
Here we have a very complex issue. If everyone got the songs for free, then nobody would make money off of music. If nobody makes money, then why would record companies exist?
Then again if they get too aggressive, people will just get pissed off and be more likely to download music. I don’t think it would be too hard to just use the anonymizer website as a proxy.
I personally believe if you already own the music then you have a right to own an mp3 version of it. I believe backups are fully legal, although a downloaded mp3 file might not be considered a backup.
I did know a person who would download a ton of music, listen to it, decide if he liked it, and either delete it or buy the cd. This wasn’t bad for the industry.
Also if downloading was such a problem then how are people getting gold or platinum records in record time?
I believe there is a website that makes music files available for 99 cents per song. I actually think that it should be even cheaper. Without having to make the cd’s, print the labels, and ship them out they should save a mint. 25 to 50 cents should be the norm in my opinion, if not even less.
I also don’t see why there are not machines at stores that copy off the cd’s at the store. Could work with dvd’s also. Imagine a store that could never run out of your favorite movie or cd, and have every song or movie ever. Might work well with programs also. As long as people still buy this stuff in the stores, it should work.
I have been wondering if cd shoplifting has gone down in recent years.
I hate the RIAA with a passion. They’re not protecting the artists, they’re protecting greedy major labels who have done more to fuck bands and artists over than any college kid with too much free time ever could.
When you buy a CD at the store, the band is lucky if they see pennies on the dollar from that sale. Bands make their money through performances, not the pittance they get for a royalty.
The end of the RIAA is not to stop piracy but to control access to non-mainstream music. They wanted to buy Napster before they had it killed. Most files traded online are from independent label bands not affiliated with the RIAA. Does that scare the RIAA? Yes. These people aren’t buying mainstream CD’s because mainstream music sucks. It’s all generic, safe, cookie-cutter garbage. The RIAA would love nothing more than to control a relatively unrestricted means for independent and small-label bands and thus turn it into the same kind of pay-to-play business that they run with major labels. They would shut out 99% of bands from these filesharing services, hand-pick the bands they think could make them a buck, and farm them for the major label meat grinder. It’s time we all said enough and boycotted any label associated with the RIAA, because they’re spitting on our minds. You’ll take your fucking Limp Bizkit and LIKE IT. That’s your music, we decide it for you, and don’t you DARE go on KaZaa and find something else or we’ll sue your ass. The arrogance of these pinheads is astounding, but when you realize that major labels and their RIAA wolfhounds have been so used to controlling what people listen to for decades one can see why they hate losing control to college kids who won’t buy their shitty Creed CD’s anymore.