will they sue me?

[Ike 2K#]

ok, I have tons of music videos and video clips on my computer but not MP3 files, would they (RIAA) still go after me and sue me for a ridiculous amount of money which I cannot even pay in a lifetime?

[Russian]

Yes they will!!!  The only way to redeem your self is to hide under desk and do a low level format on your hard drive.

[Ike 2K#]

i have a couple of mp3 songs left (like 1 mp3 music) in my HD, would they still go after me?

[Maniac]

You can have 1000s of MP3īs on your computer, as long as you un-share them in your file-sharing program (Kazaa).

If aint sharing anything then you are ok...

Regards.

[Fishu]

Usually they're after the distributers and hardly ever after the downloaders who dont distribute what they download.

Only case I can think where downloaders were being hunt down, was in Denmark, where some organization sent a bill & a law suit threat to people who had downloaded MP3's.
Pay or get sued.

I wonder if theres any updates on the news about people who chose to not pay this rather illegal taxing by a common sense and probably by the law as well.
(I'd be surprised if those who didn't pay would loose in the court)


Thats about the only cases I know downloades been targeted.. and I think that was only about some universities where file transfers were tracked with the routers of university.

[Pooh21]

Unless your giving away Mp3s by the dozen, I think you are too small fry Ike. You did burn them to cd of course before deleting them? Correct??

[GRUNHERZ]

I'm a RIAA spy, citizens you will all be denounced tommorow morning!!

[Ike 2K#]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooo:eek:

[Tumor]

Lets all hope the RIAA(ss's) go after everyone who has a downloaded MP3 on thier HD.  

...they'll be broke in a week (or an hour maybe) and we won't have to worry.

[gofaster]

[AWMac]

[Drunky]

Actually the Houston Chronicle had an article saying that the RIAA IS going after individuals.

Since Verizon was forced to give out names and addresses they know who to get a search warrant for.

The article also said that they would fine the individuals with $750 to $1,500 per song found in violation.

Don't know how they prove what is in violation or what isn't though.

[Fishu]

I'd be rather interested to know how they will prove in first place the person actually did download pirated music.

1. how do they know it was the person they're going to send the bill? (human right organizations will love to whine about this)
2. how do they know it actually was illegal? As far as I know, the routers only knows what file names along with the filesize were sent, not the contents.
This should be proven, but I don't see how you could.
3. how do they excuse monitoring people's traffic?
It's not like you have the FBI standing at the door and scanning every container going in and out of the house - monitoring someones file transfers is quite bit similar to this... intrusion.


Theres some to begin with

Will be interesting to see how they excuse those and prove it.
Any intelligent person who reads news, will erase all illegal music files from his comp and bury the CD's somewhere where the house warrants doesnt apply and write over empty space on their HD or use advanced format.

[Chaos68]

move the music/videos to a different folder and dont share them with anyone.  The riaa is going mostly after the morons running sharing servers with tens of thousands of music and such.

[devious]

Well the guys putting lots of stuff on their servers are those who provide YOUR stuff, leecher boy as opposed to sharing.

The RIAA is really boosting P2P network development - next: Encryption. Peek-a-booty might be an idea.

Let`s see if they get a search warrant for my home when I used a german flatrate provider. And if they find anything.

Die Music Industry, die. Die slowly, die quickly, I don`t care. Die while I watch you.