261 music file swappers sued
 

578,651,987 to go...

lol

With a decent lawyer you're untouchable... many cases have been settled out of court for fractions of a cent on the dollar. RIAA's lawyers has dropped alot of cases, leaving people with a tiny fee for their lawyers and an agreement to keep their mouths shut.

But it comes down to this for me: If you have 1k mp3's in your SHARED directory, and you are too lazy to move them out... you deserve to be sued.

from http://www.musicunited.org.

nice scare tactics.

67 tunes queued on Kazaa as we speak :glugglug

They're def getting desperate. I wonder if these scare tactics will work as planned? Way too many people have become accustomed to getting music for free.

Guess not:1orglaugh

Hey Scott McD......you don't mind giving me your content so that I can share it with the surfers for free, right? Power to the people!! :thumbsup :thumbsup

So if you have downloaded 1k mp3's in the past, months ago or so, would you have to worry? Assuming you haven't logged on to any gnuetella networks.

Is it just the people who continue using it with that many files?

As far as I know they can't search around any further than the shared dir and it's own sub dirs, so as long as they can't see those files then you should be all set.

they are to late.. they let it go on for to long now want to stop it.. good luck.. that's like letting usa drink tequila every day then all of a sudden saying YOU CAN"t DO THAT NO MORE!

Nah, the surfers and dumb enough to pay. So let em'...

:winkwink:

i had 987 tracks, burned them all on sunday, 106 new tracks as of today and still k-lite master....

And here you have the death of MTV Cribs for music artists...

:winkwink:

i dont use kazaaa but know many who do.

most even work in the record industry

hahaha

I have purchased over $400 worth of CDs in the past year based on the few really great MP3s that I've downloaded (Some thanks to Fletch XXX... but he isn't even in the commission loop). Before MP3s were easily traded, I'd bet that I bought less than $40 a year in CDs, because I was sick and tired of paying $18 for 1 great track and 17 completely shitty tracks.

Talk about shooting a great marketing vehicle in the foot! The recording industry is about 10 years behind the porn industry with regards to "free samples"... pun intended. Yeah, sue me for researching which albums suck ass, while I buy 10x more of those that don't.

Stupid corporate marketing fucks. :ak47:

Prohibition worked better in this country than any Internet regulatory laws will.

They need to understand that and decide the best bet was cutting loses, rather than regaining profit.

Look at what Steve Jobs did. By taking something that people can do illegally for free or legally for $1 (download a song) he found that enough people were willing to pay a buck to clear their conscious that his ?itunes? campaign made millions on it?s first day.

The RIAA is smart, they know how kick backs work. They should just stop bitching for the whole pie and ask for a small slice. In the long run everybody wins if they do that.

Any programs hide your ip?

Is kazaa lite safer?

Chris

I always use WinMX for music, not sure how safe it is though.

Dont know about blocking but the newest version has a ip blocklist dont know how it works yet, started using this version today
http://kazaalitekpp.com/

http://kazaalitekpp.com/

the block list is tol filter out certain keyword strings