If the RIAA wins a lot of it's cases and the lawsuits continue. What if it all goes to the supreme court and they still win their cases?
What will happen then? OK so anonymous P2P will be the way to go. But then where does it end? The answer is it wouldn't. There would then be the next step in their crackdown. Forcing ISP's to monitor bandwidth usage and spy on users net habits. Where will it stop?
We can only pray that even if they do win that the consumers will boycott and their sales continue to fall until they become smaller and less powerfull.
I dunno. I have a feeling it's all gonna get Big Brother'ish and eventually the only way to get things such as MP3's is through various encrypted and anonymizing techniques. And not in volume anymore either less you trigger the spies alerts.
taking everybody to court will not work. It works(?) for now but they know this can't go on forever. There is NO way to stop filesharing (and all other "illegal" activities on the net). That is just the way internet works. They think of a way to stop it, we think of a way to stop them from stopping us. Simple as that!
See? You said it yourself. That is just one of the solutions.and eventually the only way to get things such as MP3's is through various encrypted and anonymizing techniques.
keep sharing
Regardless of the outcome of all the RIAA crap, p2p will always exist. In one form or another. We will not be stopped!!!!!!!!!
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You're starting to sound like 'Metale', dude. To much weed this week?Originally posted by tons of fun
P2P will live on.......forever!!!!
Ah...and yeah it'll have to end somewhere....at a certain point people won't put up with all this tax money being spent on such a stupid fucking lot of suits....
I mean you work you're ass off...and pay taxes...and what do they do with most of it? Well....we're gonna spend loads on court BS with the RIAA...
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My Speech ~Patriotic Song Comes Out~
"4 Score and Seven Years Ago, a FileSharing baby was born. By the name of Napster, revolutionizing everything in it's path. Nolonger would the average man have to buy 20 dollars worth of crap anymore!. But the menace, The Revolutionary Independists for All Asses, i mean, RIAA, came to the scene to destroy the lives of ever hard working person, we shall not be defeated!. FileSharing Soldiers, Take up you arms and dont buy these little rich bastards lame music. We shall not be defeated, we shall not be conquered, we shall not perish. Yes people will get their asses sued, but the price of liberty is well worth it. So next time you see an RIAA Person, tell them 'No, I will never but something from you ever again you sack of shit'. Until they lower their prices to a reasonable price, we will start buying again. Or better yet make a program with monthly billing at low prices with unlimited burning. But as long as their is good their will always be evil. We'll fight em in the ground, we'll fight em in the sea, we'll fight them as far as our digital eyes can see. Thank You"
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heheh.... that wasnt half bad.Originally posted by Platinum Theory
My Speech ~Patriotic Song Comes Out~
"4 Score and Seven Years Ago, a FileSharing baby was born. By the name of Napster, revolutionizing everything in it's path. Nolonger would the average man have to buy 20 dollars worth of crap anymore!. But the menace, The Revolutionary Independists for All Asses, i mean, RIAA, came to the scene to destroy the lives of ever hard working person, we shall not be defeated!. FileSharing Soldiers, Take up you arms and dont buy these little rich bastards lame music. We shall not be defeated, we shall not be conquered, we shall not perish. Yes people will get their asses sued, but the price of liberty is well worth it. So next time you see an RIAA Person, tell them 'No, I will never but something from you ever again you sack of shit'. Until they lower their prices to a reasonable price, we will start buying again. Or better yet make a program with monthly billing at low prices with unlimited burning. But as long as their is good their will always be evil. We'll fight em in the ground, we'll fight em in the sea, we'll fight them as far as our digital eyes can see. Thank You"
Good speech, man. Now all you have to do is makesure you watch your back when you go to theater. ;-)
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Touche!Originally posted by Theinfamousone
Yeah, we all know how that war ended up, suckers. We ended slavery! And so shall we again! No more will we be trampled down by the tyranny of those who wish to opress us. We will not go quietly into the night, we'll fight, and we'll live on! Today we celebrate our Independance Day!
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Well, in all seriousness, the technology for music swapping is relatively still in the dark ages relatively. I can see in the all too near future, many people carrying around palm pilot type things that play music, just like an iPod or other mp3 players all with HUGE hard drives.
Say in 5 years, if storage drives keep getting larger and larger as they have been in the last 5 years, we'll be able to hold hundreds of gigabytes just in a little flash memory type PDA. At that point you can easily access thousands of music files without even needing a computer, let alone an IP address. You can broadcast the files using the "beam" function and spreading music will be easier than ever. PDAs and cell phones are one now, and so in a few years there will be as many people with a PDA as a cell phone or more as time goes on.
I'm not dreaming this up at all, it's already not only completely possible but already being done, my cousin has a nice PDA with a 10GB hard drive that she downloads movies from other people with. My friend Andy uses his as an mp3 player and has many full albums on his. It will just get easier as more people convert to it.
This will take a lot of upload burden off the networks, and therefore Americans really won't even have to share anymore. Half the population in Canada already has broadband, in 5 years, they'll be a lot more I'd imagine and since there is no way to sue them, they are completely free to share all the music they want.
I can see clients asking if you live in the US when you first install them, and if you are, it will advise you to only share at your own risk, or they'll ask you as you download it whether you want to share it.
They can make all the laws they want, but technology is exponentially moving away from them and their oh so sad stubborness with how things have been in the past.
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I may have to move to Canada now.:wingsOriginally posted by Theinfamousone
Half the population in Canada already has broadband, in 5 years, they'll be a lot more I'd imagine and since there is no way to sue them, they are completely free to share all the music they want.
Yes, P2P can never be completely stopped but it can be driven underground thereby becoming a fringe activity- at least in this country. When it's a fringe activity it will suck- the selection of available media will be severely truncated because of the relatively small size and paranoia of the filesharing community.
The lawsuits will probably not drive P2P underground but I predict that once they find out that P2P hasn't been driven underground, the police will get involved and begin arresting filesharers- it IS a criminal offense, the Bush administration just hasn't done anything about it yet. That will change once the RIAA begins giving the Republicans a fairer share of their bribe money. When people start being thrown in prison for filesharing, that's when it will be driven underground.
I watched a BBC news documentary today about how America is becoming ever more a police state and how people have joined civili liberties in record numbers since 9/11. It showed how one peaceful protest the police stormed in and broke it up without any provocation firing into the crowd.
Bush has already made the statement "your either with us or against us" which is narrow minded. There is the patriot act giving more power to the authorities to search into people privacy without need for special warrants. The government has gone mad over in the US.
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