p2p-weblog.com — During the course of a lawsuit the RIAA switches from the initial ISP subscriber to more appropriate targets if found. This tactic would not be acceptable in criminal court, but the RIAA can get away with it as a civil suit.
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rouslanJan 8, 2007
--P2P tips--1.Use peerguardian or protowall to block connections from anti-p2p organizations (RIAA, MPAA, BayTSP, BSA, MediaSentry, etc.)2.If using non-anonymous p2p, connect to a proxy and enable encryption. Otherwise use a fully-anonymous p2p client such as MUTE.3.Put up a very strong, open-source, dedicated firewall such as smoothwall by installing it on an old computer, and install some mods to increase security (reactive firewall, etc.).4.Goto torrent sites (thepiratebay, mininova, isohunt, etc.) throught Tor; a regular proxy sucks.(Google the names of these programs to download them. All programs I have mentioned are open-source)
sezzmeJan 8, 2007
I REALLY wish there was a website that works like Groklaw does for the SCO case - except it's to fight the RIAA. It sure would help people get all the good information to fight them all in one place. :-/
ademanJan 8, 2007
The only way to counter idiocy is with satirical logic.<a class="user" href="http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=911_morons">http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=911_morons</a>In case no one cares here's a big clue."For anyone interested in a point-by-point debunking of some of the most popular conspiracy theories out there (like the fact that steel melts at 1525° C, and although jet fuel burns only at 825° C, it doesn't have to burn hot enough to melt to cause the buildings to collapse, since steel loses 50% of its strength at 648 ° C), check out the following links:"
rickybennettJan 8, 2007
will sins no one else really said it im going to f**k THE RIAAthat is all i have to say
shark615Jan 8, 2007
Wow I banned all three accounts that comment string is totally unlinked to anything. Wish I hadn't so I could see what he/they posted.
buckeye45Jan 9, 2007
god i hate the RIAA.
022aJan 9, 2007
"The reality is, 022A, that this isn't specifically a fight between individuals and the RIAA, but a proxy for the future of rights management in general. If I were to take your advice right now (though I do often look for new artists outside the mainstream labels) and everyone I knew were to do the same, you'd have a major label search out that artist, wait for their contract to expire, or offer them enough incentives to break their contract, and then you'd be stuck once again in the same situation. Not the best fix."I wasn't stating it as a fix for the larger issue. It's a fix for the privileged people who knowingly put themselves at risk by continuing to download mass-market content that could had faster by taking a trip to Wal-Mart. The RIAA has been doing this for *years* now and I have no sympathy for anyone who gets caught by them. It's an accepted risk and pretty damn minor injustice in the big picture. For the most part these downloads are pure entertainment, luxuries that people somehow feel they're entitled to."As a photographer and a member of AFM (used to be a musician for a living) this hits home for me on two levels; firstly, there is the need to preserve my work as a means of making me a living. This can be achieved in a number of ways, but every means of rights management (in the general sense), whether it's by limiting the resolution of the files I make available on the web, or by watermarking them, or by simply not uploading my work, is a limitation on my ability to MARKET myself. So for starting/poor artists, it's a catch-22. Do you loose your work upon the world, and degrade the ability to sell that work, hoping to get some notoriety in the process? Or do you wait tables or serve coffee, while making individual prints to show to galleries?"Here's the other side...The game has changed, get over it. Maybe it's time you accepted that you can't make a living in art or music the same *way* people did 20 or even 10 years ago. Many fields of work change of time some are outmoded completely as technology progresses, you aren't immune."As a musician, we have the other half of the coin. Do we rely wholly on "playing out" the rest of our lives, a lifestyle that isn't easy on you and makes family pretty much impossible, for our income or (if you're a pop musician/performer) do you hope to catch the eye of some producer, sign your contracts, and watch the money roll in on usage sales alone?"If you can do the latter, that's great but you shouldn't expect it and you certainly aren't entitled to it. Plenty of people "work out" their lives doing things they dislike and possibly even hate by way of necessity. People who love art of music should be overjoyed that they can survive doing what they love."In order to make music, visual art, whatever, a semi-profitable venture for those people who dedicate themselves to their discipline, we have to start encouraging consumption of the works themselves (at least in the American-market system). That means you need to go to more concerts and buy less cds, you need to buy more prints and paintings, and rely less on digital reproductions, you need to often physically get out and support the arts.But that's not easy, and it's not cheap."Live music is one of the few things I do get out for. It's a unique and generally affordable experience. On the other hand, original pieces of art are often way too expensive to justify purchase."So I hope you can see the problem, for artists in particular. We have to depend on the market to support and consume what we produce, but our popular culture demands that everything be as easy and accessible as possible. Not an easy bridge to gap."Again, you're just going to have to figure it out. My uncle has been a freelance artist for the last 30 years and now teaches art at a major university and does some writing to keep the bills paid.