Three Reasons Why the RIAA Won Yesterday’s File-Sharing Case

Here is some info from the MediaSenty leak not long ago: “Here is a summary of UMG's torrent testing for this week. The effectiveness for Amy Winehouse is at 40% compared to 37% last week. Colbie Caillat is at 90% from 78% and Common increased to 73% from 63%. However Lyle Lovett dropped to 96% from 100% last week. Everything seems to be positive except for the drop…” This basically describes the percentage of files that were decoys that appear when a user searches. For some files only decoys were available. An example is the screenshot where the top 10 results for Kanye West’s Good Morning were all fake file. An email about this said: “I'm seeing our decoys flood right now for "kanye west good morning." The top 10 results are us. The attached screen cap shows what it looks like on my laptop right now. The file is real for 45 seconds then goes to crap and sounds skippy glitchy etc.” If I'm reading this correct at times they are flooding with "decoy" files and sometimes the rate is at 100% of the files available are fake. This alone casts serious doubt as if the RIAA can really determine if a file is truly the copyright piece in question or just something with a fake name etc.

Burd if you can tell me an IP hiding app that actually works for BT or other filesharing vs. just browsing that's what I'm interested in. The reason you are seeing the IP change on sites like What is my IP is that you are using your browser BIG difference! Unless you actually find downloads that are on a website then this does you NO good. Anyone know how they "proved" that a wireless router couldn't be involved? (Besides paying off the judge and jury).

They would still have evidence of you're IP address though Burd? Don't they legally make the ISPs spill the beans?

Two things: proxies and external hard drives. You don't need to re-format. Using a proxy might slow things up a bit but they DO change your IP (I checked with Ghost Surf and others and they really do. Just go to What is my IP.com. Check without the proxy and then with. It does change it. Then to be sure use an external hard drive to save your files (you can share from it to but only while you are monitoring it...not a good idea to keep it running 24-7.) Then when you are done remove the external drive. Now no illegal files are on your main hard drive. Then to be really sure erase all evidence of your activity each time you go on by using Windows Washer or some other program that clears the memory. The people who are getting caught are quite simply not paying attention.

There is an appeal going for this case. You can help raise funds for her to fight these morons! I'm donating something. Not much but it's all i can afford at the moment. Somethings better than nothing right? http://freejammie.com/

Actually she probably lost because old people aren't tech savvy. So they think reformatting is a HUGE thing. I do it once every 6 months to a year. Mostly because Windows sucks and "defragmenting" doesn't cut it. They also don't know that routers all use the same IP so anyone wirelessly on your network will have the same ip as you do. So if we look at what they have ruled here. Any and all people out there not knowing how to password home routers should be sued for cleaning their computer hd or someone getting on their internet. Older people just don't know much about the technological age. Hints RIAA NBC etc.

There is distribution costs. This wasn't included in the pretend "fine".

I'll bet it wasn't Elvis. That's a factor if you ask me. Did you fall out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down?

Jury Directives uploading or download is illegal. Who wrote that law? If it's their recordings I can see that should be true. That's it really. They get 15 million (Elvis 2002 album source:Google) sales. Don't know the copyright holders/artists share but it if get say only %1 that is one percent of 15000000 * 20 dollars which means they get : 3 million dollars. How many sales did this lady STOP? 1000 or so (let's guess) so that's 1000 * (0.1 - the money of each album) = 100 dollars fine if you ask me. RIAA get a f*ckin' grip of your senses!

I wonder what the songs were. Probly real gay.

@Meyou123 Fortunately it was not my aquaintance. I ran into the person about a month or so after reading about it and was informed it was someone else.

@StormNinja....was it the person you knew? Did you ever find out?

Soulseek is not entirely invisible. In late 2005 the IPRIA( I may have misspelled that acronymn)but the European version of the RIAA did go after user of Soulseek. That person was located in Wilmington NC. I recall it vividly as I personally knew a user of that application and ironically that person had recently moved to Wilmington and I was thinking 'On no (---)had gotten busted'. In any case I recall reading about the incident online while researching Pirolet and the info came up as news article during a web search.

@no.5...EDIT....I was thinking of direct connect...NOT soulseek....sorry for the typo.

Well you are STILL taking a chance with soul seek AND with private BT sites...both kinds have been raided by the FBI before. They are not as "safe" or underground as you think they are.

o and fastrack and gnutella all of them p2p clients are all populer ...like limwire and all them thats all ppl talk about and theyve been around so many years and thats no wunder y..the riaa ppl and stuff r just after them mostly..cuz there populer p2p networks so i dont use them..

and thats y i dont use fastrack or gnutella..they have nuttin anymore lol hah i wouldnt complain about them they jsut suck now

heyyyy what about...soulseek? i use that...no 1 ever talks about that 1 and its underground..no 1 hardly talks or looks that up..neither does riaaa ppl talk about it either ..i dont really use gnutella or fastracck clients any ways..like morepheus limewire kazza shareeza..there all the same..and has the same files and..nuttin really i want..they have nuttin good any ways anymore..but soulseek does..and i use private trackers as well.. so ya

"As usual you Usenet cats have nothing to worry about but you Direct Connect people need to become more aware of the dangers and switch up for heavens sake! " Couldn't agree more....ANY centralized p2p program and even some un centralized ones are in danger of comming under attack. .