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- Lumbeekid06, on 08/19/2008, -5/+94***** The RIAA!
- whoreable, on 08/19/2008, -0/+70Lol Kazaa. That's some old school *****. Reminds me of Napster, Edonkey, and Morpheus. Ahh the good old days.
- RetroRufio, on 08/19/2008, -0/+41Tell us another story Grandpa!
- ileftfark, on 08/19/2008, -1/+40You wouldn't download a car, would you?
I know I would. - fwertz, on 08/19/2008, -4/+36Too bad there are millions of us that have plenty of unlawfully acquired media on our hard-drives.
Organizations such as the RIAA and sub-organizations such as MediaSentry can only dream of getting us all. If you ask me, a couple grand is worth paying to drag out ridiculous lawsuits like such as long as they can be document and inspire more "piracy". You can't stop it. Hell, in a few years "hard-copies" and physical mediums wont exist as everything transitions into our digital era. I'm quite confident and pleased that "piracy" will boom ever further. If corporeality were to just take a look at the well-being of their clients, then take a look at the average kid, single mother, and collegiate-American-citizen it should be no wonder why we "boycott" and "pirate" our media. It's not as expensive. We don't just stock our fridges with JUST hydrants (no food, because we just pay someone else to cook for us, or eat out), and drive top-of-the-line cars to our fitness-trainers. We work real jobs and earn real money and don't expect to be ***** when we want to zone out from our REAL lives with "pirated" media. The rules can be skewed here folks. Given today's economy: if you earn millions, you can spare millions. If you earn only thousands, well, you probably can't afford to spare thousands.
For reference, I myself, do pay a monthly-fee for subscription music. I enjoy fad-in fad-out mainstream and other oldies which are covered by all music libraries, generally. At the cost of a CD ($14.95, if that's right still?) a month, it's justifiable for me. And very convenient for portable media. But if it wasn't available. I'd certainly "pirate".
***** the RIAA indeed. - cawpin, on 08/19/2008, -2/+32Kazaa, Edonkey and Morpheus have always sucked. Napster, the real Napster, was awesome. I just happened to be in college at it's peak. THOSE were the good ole days.
- ligyron, on 08/19/2008, -0/+24$6,050? what a waste of time
- merlin484, on 08/19/2008, -1/+21Just when I thought they couldnt go any lower, they sue a 3 year old?!? shameful
- KMartSheriff, on 08/19/2008, -0/+19***** KaZaA. Who still uses that piece of *****?
- MSstar, on 08/19/2008, -2/+17KaZaa was the best SEX TAPE PARIS HILTON ANAL LESBIAN SNOOP DOGG 50 CENT MADONNA EMINEM search engine
- rdhazrd, on 08/19/2008, -1/+14I can see it now:
Illegal downloading of songs: up to $100,000+ per song
Legal cost over 3 years: Millions of $$
Settlement: $6,050
Being able to call it a win: Priceless - johnomaz, on 08/19/2008, -0/+12So was I. Downloading at over 1mb per second per song. I expanded my library by gigs every day. Then, the great hard drive crash of 2000 happened....was almost as bad as the depression of 1929. The IT department had to come to my dorm room and tell me to stop sharing my music to other dorm students because of the bandwidth I was using.
- rdhazrd, on 08/19/2008, -0/+12The gay rainbow?
- badjokes, on 08/19/2008, -1/+12might as well download atleast $10,000 worth of movies and music. atleast that way if you get caught its worth it.
- callinthelaw69, on 08/19/2008, -1/+11Haha Kazaa. You might as well just download viruses...oh wait, you already are.
- KMartSheriff, on 08/19/2008, -0/+9I had an old computer running XP and decided to put as much spyware/viruses/etc on it as possible (which is actually a lot harder than you think). Installing KaZaA was the first thing I did, and Windows Defender immediately freaked out.
- removesstains, on 08/19/2008, -1/+9RIAA is so stupid. $6,050, how much maybe did they waste on this case? thats the number i want to see.
- pcgeek101, on 08/19/2008, -0/+7fail
- Foamator, on 08/19/2008, -0/+7Then send it to his grieving widow!
- rbk303, on 08/19/2008, -1/+8Yep. That's the lowest common denominator alright. Nice one.
- nerdherder, on 08/19/2008, -0/+7Kazaa is the equivalent of kicking your computer in the nuts.
- inactive, on 08/19/2008, -3/+10Obligatory stale comment so I can get free diggs!
- MattB123, on 08/19/2008, -0/+7Only if it was free!
- mishsquish, on 08/19/2008, -0/+6Hahah. Yeah, you could search for any of those and find -every- file on kazaa. Good times.
- jemka, on 08/19/2008, -0/+6I download all the latest tracks in midi format. I find the synthetic recreations soothing. And I haven't been sued yet!!!
- todamax, on 08/19/2008, -1/+7***** THE RIAA
***** THE MPAA
***** MediaSentry
***** ANTI P2P PEOPLE
***** THEM ALLLLLLLL
and lol @ digg dude with the beer - CrazedLeper, on 08/19/2008, -0/+6Supply and demand. If supply is unlimited the highest price anyone can demand is $0.00. Serves the record companies right; all the years they ripped off so many artists.
- inactive, on 08/19/2008, -1/+7DRM is the reason I refuse to buy certain softwares.
(And okay, I have like four DS games that didn't get translated over to English illegally. Sue me. Not literally, though.) - tomarocco, on 08/19/2008, -0/+6Damn it, after reading this I'm now obligated to download $6,050 worth of pirated music tonight.
- billbugger, on 08/19/2008, -0/+6So where can we donate to his $6k problem?
- allengeer, on 08/20/2008, -0/+6So I really think this whole RIAA legal front was a terrible attempt at curbing something that is impossible to curb in the normal sense. The internet changed the face of media. It changed the whole method which the industry works. A smart CEO has to see that his industry has changed, and a smart CEO would have been right at the front with a new innovative alternative. But the recording industry dropped the ball. They didn't innovate. They didn't prepare for the pending no-physical-media age. And they are now feeling the squish of it.
There were only 2 ways for them to proceed:
1. Use your money and start the research on no-media content back in 1992, when an engineer could have told them "oh yea you don't really have to have physical media, i mean its not feasible now but in 10 years it could be", that way they were dictating the no-media market instead of swimming to catch up with it.
2. Sabotage the file sharing markets. These systems can be sabotaged very easily. If they would have put the money and the effort they did into legal action, into a systematic sabotage of the P2P networks at the very beginning, they might have been able to nip file sharing in the bud. You set up a thousands of servers serving junk bits to the users and viola. People get faulty files on the other end. Or at the very least you have clogged a system with so much worthless data transfer that its essentially useless. Bomb the torrent sites with fake torrents. Convolute the data so much that it become unusable.
But they did neither of these things. They passively watched as their content was taken from them and figured a justice system of only 29,000 judges could enforce the systematic breaking of the law by hundreds of millions of people both at home and abroad. It was a colossal misstep. - inactive, on 08/19/2008, -0/+6Oh gawd will it never ***** end.
- atgmac, on 08/19/2008, -0/+6I'm digging you up so the world can see what an idiot you are.
- nofate2029, on 08/19/2008, -0/+6is kazaa lite still around these days? i remember when the program was pretty good, back like 4-5 years ago or something.
- wompninja, on 08/19/2008, -0/+6AMEN!
- Totz83, on 08/19/2008, -0/+5Dugg for "stale"
- ludditte, on 08/20/2008, -0/+5This is GrandPa, I still have my first Walkman ( do u know what a cassette is?). Napster was great when DSL started. Got closed down. Moved to Kaazaa lite. Discovered torrents and private trackers. GrandPa has bought himself external drives, 1st a 250g, then a 300g, now am filling up a 1tb. GrandPa says: ***** RIAA, I am going to buy a 2tb drive.
- CrazedLeper, on 08/19/2008, -0/+5Yes, a suspicious waste of time. There is more to this than meets the eye. Yes, I am a conspiracy theorist; tinfoil cap, meds, the whole 9 yards.
- nerdherder, on 08/19/2008, -0/+5Delete your post then. If you caught it in time to edit it you could have deleted it.
- nerdherder, on 08/19/2008, -0/+5Weirdo.
- atgmac, on 08/19/2008, -1/+6You shoot a policeman, and then steal his helmet.
- inactive, on 08/19/2008, -1/+5The E-Donkey network kicks ass, still does. Do not put it into the same category as kazaa and morpheus just because its an old protocol
- Br3ach, on 08/19/2008, -0/+4You know they probably ate through a few million dollars to get there...
- sfacets, on 08/19/2008, -0/+4You then take a dump in the policeman's hat
- wush, on 08/19/2008, -0/+4man, kazaa was a *****. thank god for bit torrent
- jnichols, on 08/19/2008, -0/+3RIAA Harasses a disabled woman and get slapped by the courts
http://digg.com/music/RIAA_Music_weasels_Need_to_P ... - kevro, on 08/19/2008, -0/+3so she's paying for these songs, $750 each yet still must delete them all.
- atgmac, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3And then steal it again!
- inactive, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3Who asked for your response?
And yet you still responded. - JammoBlammo, on 08/19/2008, -6/+9wrong thread, bury me.
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