Can the riaa get winmx?

[robpax]

Can the RIAA sue users that are on winmx? Since it uses a decentralized network does that mean that everybody downloads anonymously on it?

[begoodbebad]

[I think if the RIAA can get WinMX they are welcome to it.

Can you actually get sued for sharing fakes? lol

[Captain_FLX]

I dont think they would even bother getting WinMX because of the long azz Que lines in there. I use WinMX but it's real difficult to get stuff out of there so peronally I dont think they'll ever go after WinMX if they never fix the Que Problem, but who knows?.

[cpugeniusmv]

unfortunately........due to the fact that the internet is a public network, almost ANY network can be monitored and you can be sued.

it's not anonymous.

[Induna]

So how come in never gets mentioned like with all the other major p2p apps with regards to the RIAA ?

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Originally posted by Induna
So how come in never gets mentioned like with all the other major p2p apps with regards to the RIAA ?

Why do you think FrontCode the developers are so secretive all the time?

They keep winmx out of the RIAA by not showing a user counter and never hyping up their releases

[notbob]

yes, because they are going after USERS now--in addition kazaa, and soulseek, and dc, and piolet, and blubster, and IRC, and newsgroups (they seem to have given up on shutting down developers)

irc and newsgroup users can be spotted easily in the ISP records that they can get via court actions (e.g. the verizon decision)

if you trhink anything that is publically accessible is safe, you are fucking nuts

[Psilaxs]

True, but just accessing the data, as you have said, they could't care less about. it is the poeple who share on p2p networks or post on news groups they are going after.

At least for right now.

[isus]

any network you are on, you can get caught.

and i agree with evil dweller...
kazaa is in the news all the time. sure, it makes it more popular, but... anybody can read that.

winmx on the other hand, is very very low key.

it has been around forever tho. im sure the riaa knows about it. but like i said, winmx has significantly less users, so it is of lower priority than kazaa.

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Originally posted by isus


it has been around forever tho. im sure the riaa knows about it. but like i said, winmx has significantly less users, so it is of lower priority than kazaa.

Actually..winmx has around 1.5 to 2 million users

That's second best to Kazaa yet they are able to keep a low profile and they weren't on the scanning list of p2p programs the RIAA showed on some website

[notbob]

Originally posted by Evil_Dweller_01
and they weren't on the scanning list of p2p programs the RIAA showed on some website

do you think the riaa's list really matters? maybe they left winmx off because that's the one they really want to go after

[Serps]

One thing that the RIAA might be trying to do is attack one network at a time. First it goes after Kazaa and then waits to see where the users move to next. In there eyes the next big thing.

Once that network has more users off the evil RIAA go again making a big public outcry about this new network and how they are going to sue thousands of more people and the circle begins again.

Oh and yes I think they can get Winmx

[notbob]

Originally posted by Serps
One thing that the RIAA might be trying to do is attack one network at a time.

they don't actually scan anyone

they hire lots of others--mediaforce, baytsp, etc. to do their legwork, and those guys have already been confirmed (via ISP letters that we have all seen posted here and on other forums) to be checking dc, winmx, kazaa, bittorrent, soulseek, shareaza/morpheus/gnutella

[Jelsoft]

Originally posted by robpax
Can the RIAA sue users that are on winmx? Since it uses a decentralized network does that mean that everybody downloads anonymously on it?

If you use the opennap servers on Winmx, it's not decentralized.

[mp3master1215]

stop being paranoid and keep sharing!