i'm sure the limewire thing is just lime group (founded and owned by
a bunch of bankers) covering their legal backs after the morpheus/
grokster case - if they tell you not to do something the labels'
lawyers can't argue they told you to do it.
they're playing safe with the threats too - they're going after
people with a few thousand tracks in their shared directories. so not
downloading, but the exclusive right of making available, which has
been tightened up a bit in the last few years.
i don't think any cases have yet gone through the courts - people
have paid the protection money and promised to obey henceforth. i
think the courts might want to take a very close look at what
'reasonable' means in how much someone's privacy should be
compromised to protect avril lavigne's warblings, and how much damage
has actually, not potentially been caused. on the other hand they
might all be fascist pigs in league with the media/entertainment/
military masonic brotherhood and hand down the maximum $150,000 per
infringement to every single mom they can round up, which on the
complete 'now that's what i call alt-rock' mp3 collection is a tidy
sum...
cheerio
paul
state51
On 18 Aug 2005, at 20:36, nat hawks wrote:
quoted 179 lines so, if i'm trying to download some Prurient or Discordance Axis i'm
> so, if i'm trying to download some Prurient or Discordance Axis i'm
> fine.... it'll be when i jokingly go to download "invisible touch"
> that the cuffs'll come on...
>
> does anybody on the list (if such a person exists on earth) have an
> idea about what the situation really is? i imagine they're going
> after bootleggers directly.
>
> it's hard not be paranoid about such things these days...
>
>
>
>> From: "josh23" <josh23@acre-c.com>
>> To: idm@hyperreal.org
>> Subject: Re: [idm] limewire safety question...
>> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:44:14 -0700
>>
>> well, there was all of the hoopla a few years ago with the
>> lawsuits and
>> whatnot but i don't know what's going on with that anymore, the
>> public lost
>> interest. i think you just get a court ordered summons to go get
>> picked on
>> by riaa people. they surround you and poke you with sticks until
>> you say
>> you're sorry, then they demand 20 grand or something. or not, i
>> don't know
>> anymore. the thing is, with most of the music that...umm...nerds
>> like all of
>> us listen to, we're not going to run into trouble with filesharing
>> because
>> most of the music we are into is not in the riaa umbrella. so
>> unless the
>> particular artist or label comes after you you are pretty much in
>> the clear
>> i figure.
>>
>> thoughts? and i'm not saying thoughts about the pros and cons of file
>> sharing, we all know that tired old argument and everyone is going
>> to do
>> what they want.
>>
>> joshua.
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:53:59 -0400, nat hawks wrote
>> > yes, i've downloaded thousands of tracks from limewire, but i also
>> > buy a lot of music and pay to see a lot of shows... lets not get
>> > into that (i think we can hopefully all agree that filesharing
>> > without the artists' concent is downright theft and is wrong, but
>> > most of us are probably not the problem, as this group tends to
>> > hugely support live and recorded music, we just want to hear
>> > everything), but thanks for the archive.org link, i'd never
>> actually
>> > gone there. and found this right off the bat...
>> > http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?
>> collection=bedroombrain&collectionid=BB009
>> >
>> > i'm wondering though... what exactly could happen to you if you
>> were
>> > 'caught' filesharing? has anyone heard of this actually happening
>> > to anyone? should i be wary of using limewire anymore, really?
>> > does a swat team come to your house?
>> >
>> > >From: Cory O'Brien <myo.sound@gmail.com>
>> > >To: idm@hyperreal.org
>> > >Subject: Re: [idm] limewire safety question...
>> > >Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:05:53 -0400
>> > >
>> > >I usually try this simple 3 step method.
>> > >
>> > >1: walk into record store.
>> > >2: make selection.
>> > >3: give money to cashier.
>> > >
>> > >very safe, and easy!
>> > >
>> > >or, try this....
>> > >
>> > >1: navigate your browser to archive.org
>> > >2: select from 1000's of creative commons licensed web labels.
>> > >3: download music untill you run out of harddrive space.
>> > >
>> > >that works well too.
>> > >
>> > >-cory
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >-------------------------------------
>> > >audio @ myosound.com
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >On Aug 18, 2005, at 10:48 AM, egyptian zombie robot wrote:
>> > >
>> > >>if you hunt around on the slsk forums: http://
>> forums.slsknet.org/ipb/
>> > >>you can find info on getting alternative slsk clients up and
>> running
>> > >>on os x. much safer in my opin.
>> > >>
>> > >>- xnlb
>> > >>
>> > >>On 8/17/05, Kurt Bernhard Pruenner <leak@gmx.at> wrote:
>> > >>>nat hawks wrote:
>> > >>>>i run OSX, is there a better, safer solution to robbing the
>> creative
>> > >>>>world?
>> > >>>
>> > >>>Wearing a hook, peg leg, eyepatch and parrot while robbing a
>> music
>> > >>>studio seems safer than dealing with The Man(TM) to me... :P
>> > >>>
>> > >>>--
>> > >>>Kurt Bernhard Pruenner --- Haendelstrasse 17 --- 4020 Linz
>> --- Austria
>> > >>>.......It might be written "Mindfuck", but it's spelt "L-A-I-
>> N".......
>> > >>>np: Richard Devine - Arc-Acid (Cautella)
>> > >>>
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