A quesiton about the riaa sueing the traders

[sebfernando]

Is the RIAA only sueing the traders on kazaa imesh and other programs like that, so other people using emule, dc++ etc.. are safe?

[REDO]

no. they have scanners which scan all of the networks. If your ip comes up on more than one file, they go "hmmm", and check and see what else you have. People get notices on kazaa, e-mule, bittorent etc...

[sebfernando]

o ok, thanx for the reply....i better be careful...........

[sebfernando]

so if everyone knows that they could be in for it, then why dont they, well stop. i know thats a bad thing, and p2p could go down, but arn't people worried they can get sued for thousands of dollas?

[.::BeatFactory::.]

In the words of an infamous ZP member (who will remain un-named): "Go away you RIAA troll!"

Your "shouldn't we stop using it" opinion will not be tolerated at the worlds largest p2p forum. :hole :fire

If you are the average joe...then, no, I will not stop using p2p ... ever.

[FileHoover]

They are only going to sue users of Kazaa. Specific names and ip addresses will posted on their website as soon as they become available to give those people time to erase their hard drives.

[Brycen257]

To any newbies or other members who are paranoid about the RIAA coming after them :

Chill, Dudes, with some 50 million plus people sharing files, the odds of them trying to come after you are very slim.

Unless you have a large selection of files, they won't even take a second look at you.

They will never ultimately succeed in shutting down file sharing. What they will succed in and have already succeeded in is pissing off millions of people who are now determined to bring the RIAA and the music industry down at any cost . This is only one battle and make no mistake, we will win the war .

Even in the unlikely event the RIAA detected you, there is no guarantee they would obtain your address from your IP and even if they actually took you to court, its unlikely they would ever win. They are way off base in claiming that file sharers actually stole anything or that they incurred any loss as a result.

In addition, can you imagine the chaos that would result if everyone being sued contested the action . What do you think would happen then? I can't see shutting down the entire court system just to pursue the RIAA agenda. Not going to happen.

[REDO]

do you guys think they will go after bittorent users? I use bittorent and piolet the most..

I hate kazaa anyway.

[matt merch]

Originally posted by FileHoover
They are only going to sue users of Kazaa. Specific names and ip addresses will posted on their website as soon as they become available to give those people time to erase their hard drives.

total and utter bullshit

[cheapprick]

Filehoover, give up on the attacks on Kazaa. There is no good indication of what you are suggesting. Kazaa certainly has the most users, so numerically most lawsuits may come from it but any unencrypted p2p is open to hits.

[Kyle06]

Originally posted by Brycen257
To any newbies or other members who are paranoid about the RIAA coming after them :

Chill, Dudes, with some 50 million plus people sharing files, the odds of them trying to come after you are very slim.


So very true but with my luck I will be one of them lol....

[rainbowdemon]

Originally posted by sebfernando
so if everyone knows that they could be in for it, then why dont they, well stop. i know thats a bad thing, and p2p could go down, but arn't people worried they can get sued for thousands of dollas? If you want to stop using p2p, then just stop. This is strictly a personal choice. No one here (or anywhere else) is going to make that decision for you.

[cpugeniusmv]

Originally posted by Kyle06
So very true but with my luck I will be one of them lol....

i hope so...

wait, did i say that out loud?

[Wolfie]

Originally posted by cpugeniusmv
i hope so...

That's not good. He'll probably make deal in court and let RIAA in the hub... ;-)

[isus]

Originally posted by Brycen257
Chill, Dudes, with some 50 million plus people sharing files, the odds of them trying to come after you are very slim.

if there are 50 million people sharing files, where the hell are they all? even on kazaa, only 4 million simultaneous users. that would be a full change in the number of users at a little under 2 hours.

(24hrs / 2hrs) = 12 shifts
12 x 4million = 48million

every 2 hours? a completely new group of people?

yea, that's only kazaa, but you get the idea. i wonder what the real number of file sharers is...

[Soothsayer]

I have to agree with FileHoover - they are probably going to go after the Kazaa users first, some of the big ones. Some folks who do nothing but fileshare, who are not upstanding members of society, who have a past of a criminal record or something else which will make them look bad... that is IF the RIAA goes after anyone.
The reason why they would hit Kazaa first is logical, it is the most known and most used of all the P2P programs.