How many of you have deleted Kazaa, Morpheus, etc from your computer??

[TR Custom Parts]

Was watching Good Morning America this morning (Friday 7-25) and they were showing a guy that they are bringing up charges on for downloading music. Pretty scary, Kazaa is now off my computer so what do I do with the 1300 songs I have already downloaded? I had already moved them to another folder on the computer and now without any Kazaa files on the hard drive I should be safe right? Anyone else getting rid of these programs off their computers?

 

[2quiktocare]

So, Big Brother is watching and peeking in your computer huh? My thought is that when someone comes into your computer for past acts, they are trespassing. Plain and simple. I don't see how they can burn someone for something that was provided without warning on the computer prior to the new laws being past. At best I can only see them making him delete the files. Download them onto disc and save them.

 

[equalizer442]

the other day i read something about them trying to pass a law to make dling a song a feloney, personally i aint scared and even if they do bust me what are they gona do i aint got nothen for em to take?

 

[2quiktocare]

I do understand and appreciate copyright and patent laws very well, which is why I have never downloaded music from the Internet. But to my way of thinking, the real criminals here are the ones that facilitate the people’s ability to do this in the first place. They are making available an intellectual property that isn't theirs to give in the first place. Maybe as a hard punishment to the offenders, they will make the guilty listen to hours of Metallica and really have an impact on the situation. lol,,,,,,,,,,Mark

 

[KEVINS]

Originally posted by 2quiktocare
I do understand and appreciate copyright and patent laws very well, which is why I have never downloaded music from the Internet. But to my way of thinking, the real criminals here are the ones that facilitate the people’s ability to do this in the first place. They are making available an intellectual property that isn't theirs to give in the first place. Maybe as a hard punishment to the offenders, they will make the guilty listen to hours of Metallica and really have an impact on the situation. lol,,,,,,,,,,Mark

I agree! Instead of going after the little guys they should be going after the Providers of the system. Make them pass requirements that no copy righted material gets transffered through their system, etc. Just like going after the drug dealers (poor analogy, I know) vs going after all the little guys who use drugs.. Its easier to hit the dealers..
I'm sure it's not as easy as that but if they can track someone through the Inet then they can come up with a way to monitor the providers...

ks

 

[GNSCOTT]

I think its all BS. They cannot afford to take everyone to court. They are just trying to scare people, on top of that, many bands do not mind you trading their songs for free, so they will have to weed through the songs they own. I'll bet they won't even bother to send out subponeas to everyone seeing how that can be expensive. They will pick on a select few to try to scare the rest of us.

 

[Zero Tolerance]

Mine's gone. Er, ah if I ever had it

 

[Little6pack]

OK ? here..

1st off if you are assigned an IP address from say AOL. wouldn't they have to contact AOL to ask what user was using it?

Next IP's from IP providers in some cases change if it is a lease.
Meaning you may be on today with 1 IP address & tomorrow it could be different.

What never changes is the computers MAC address. Unless you never registered your computer with a vendor IE: dell, IBM, e-machines How would they know?

DOES KAZZA give off signals back to KAZZA when you are online?

 

[denn454]

i've heard about this, pretty scarry stuff. what i'm doing is moving all downloaded music to another non shared file so it cant' be seen. along with that i'm not sharing any music, that way in order to be caught the music cops will have to break the law first by having copyrighted music avaliable for download, making them the criminals not me. legally i shoudl be coverd. i'm a big fan of music sharing, i can get all the free music i want. If you look it from the point of view of most bands they like it too, most people don't have time ot download more than 2 or 3 songs at a time, and usually don't download a whole cd at a time. so if they like the music the'll usually buy the cd, i know i do. If i was in a band i'm encourage people to use it, its free advertising basically. Another thing i'm doing is using a thing called shareaza, its not used as much as something like kazaa so i'm less likely to be caught in the first palce.

 

[1QuikV6]

Just FYI. Both Kazaa and Morpheus contain "spyware" software built in. If you want to download "songs or videos you own but can't burn for your compulations " without big brother watching, download Kazaa-lite. It's been stripped of the spyware software.

Kazaa-Lite

 

[Buick From Hell]

The way I understand it, is those looking to bust you must use the same file-sharing software, such as Kazaa---which of course allows them the same access to your files as anyone else using it---and, they can only look in files that were created specifically to be used in sharing...

translation:

If they use Kazaa, and access your "C:/program files/Kazaa/" files, and find MP3's, you may be in trouble...

However, if they access your "C:/AnythingElseBUTKazaa" files, then they're illegally searching your computer...

It's just bull$hit anyway, it's just a cheap ploy by the music companies because they're all going broke! And it's NOT because of downloading as they'd have you believe, it's because all the musicians lately are tired of the music companies ripping THEM off, and have figured out (duh) that they can produce their music themselves!

(that, and because music SUCKS these days anyway)

 

[lp2]

Any files you have shared can be accessed by the p2p program, that's the way things work. You can be sharing your entire d: or just the default \my music or whatever kazaa uses..

Just want to make sure nobody misinterprets BFH's comment there...

The lame thing about the RIAA crackdown is the stupid DMCA.. it kind of goes like this:

"Hi we're the RIAA, and this person is sharing these files. By the DMCA, you have to give us their personal information." Yup, that's all the proof they need.

 

[TR Custom Parts]

With me, most of the music I have downloaded is stuff that I have already owned and/or stuff that I liked when growing up. I really don't have much new stuff on there because most of today's music sucks. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an old fogey even though I am old (47) but there is just not much out there I like. Creed, Metallica, Staind, Tool, STP, is about as "modern" as I get. Give me Zeppelin, Aerosmith, etc anyday. There stuff from 25 years ago holds up better than anything out there today.

Did anybody see the story on GMA the other day? They had one poor guy on there who had some relative download a bunch of music and I guess they are making an example out of him. That would probably be all it takes to get people worried about it. The odds of getting caught is probably pretty slim, just like winning Powerball or Lotto but with my luck I would more than likely get caught downloading music before I won any $$$$.

Here's the link to the ABC story.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_RIAAupdate030723.html

 

[tjthorson]

The people that are getting busted are the ones SHARING the music - NOT downloading it. Now, they probably downloaded it to share it in the first place.

A good rule of thumb - which if everyone did it, wouldn't allow the system to function is.....

You setup your shared folder to contain a few public domain MP3's. Then, you make the download folder something else that is not shared. To those "Big Brothers" spying, they only see a few mp3s and leave you alone. No need to move them to other computers or anything like that. Also, what my friends do is, they setup their computer the way I described. They fire up Kazaa Lite, get what they want and then close it.

Thats my little secret of the day!

$.25 please...