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5 | 27.78% |
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 18. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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America's Most Wanted!
 
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P2P Downloading in the United States -
March 9th, 2003, 07:52 AM
Has the Riaa affecting your downloading. Or are we downloading more then ever In the United States. :wings
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Zeropaid Pyro
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March 9th, 2003, 08:10 AM
Is YES for yes, were downloading more, or yes, the RIAA has affected us?:mellow
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America's Most Wanted!
Posts: 125
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Reply to the poll -
March 9th, 2003, 08:17 AM
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N/A
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March 9th, 2003, 10:01 AM
it hasn't really affected me... i got slightly jittered when they caught that guy using verizon, but within a day or two i was back to my daily routine of filesharing.
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Soulseeker? Seelenjäger!
Posts: 630
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Location: Above, AL
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March 9th, 2003, 10:16 AM
My downloading is driven by the music I happen to discover. If I find a song or two I like, I search for more. If I listen to these songs for a few weeks and still like 'em I get back online to find an album to purchase. Looking forward to getting a double album and T-shirt I ordered last week - artist-direct, who needs the middle-men? So, to answer your question - no.
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Zeropaid Regular
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March 9th, 2003, 05:18 PM
still the same ol' fileholic me.
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Aku Soku Zan
Posts: 3,238
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: USA
Age: 37
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March 9th, 2003, 05:42 PM
No effect here. I'm actaully downloading more stuff these days.
Since its inception almost 30 years ago, the internet has been transformed from a primitive device for sharing thoughts and ideas, into a massive network where people pay to connect and read advertisements they don't want, while calling each other "asshats". |
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File Sharing Giant
Posts: 731
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Space Needle
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More! -
March 9th, 2003, 05:48 PM
I'm trying to download more before they pass laws like the CBDTPA and it's illegal for us to even think about copyrighted material. If you want to see an example of what computers could look like...
http://www.perryhoberman.com/accept/...ringement.html |
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Krell's Hitman
Posts: 1,708
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: One of the states with no sales tax
Age: 25
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Re: More! -
March 9th, 2003, 06:16 PM
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Krell, Phalkon30, Ken17625, Triniti, Kyle06, Potato429, wessman, Winphuk, Woflie, MoonMan, All the mods, CCSDUDE, Lamourlady, Nasrules, Alannah777, vipp, foreverboard, NDGAARONDI, metale, isus, Endersgame21, Reg0232, notbob, Janett999, and uhh you! |
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File Sharing Giant
Posts: 731
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Space Needle
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CBDTPA -
March 9th, 2003, 07:33 PM
Senator Fritz Hollings' Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act would require hardware copyright protection to be built into all "digital media devices." This would include computers, PVR, TV, DVD, VCR, and basically anthing with a microchip in it. See the bill at http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdt...48.032102.html
A Princeton Professor, Edward Felton, has assembled a list of funny examples of electronic devices that would be regulated by the CBDTPA. Check out "Fritz's Hit List" (read from the bottom up) at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/arc..._hit_list.html :sw |
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