COURT: RIAA CAN'T HAVE NAMES OF DOWNLOADERS

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[mylife]

Kazaa is sooo "2000."

So whats the current hot stuff?

[LurkedLongEnough]

Ding, dong, the witch is dead!

[Tribune7]

Good. The courts finally get one right.

[Pern]

Yeah, what's the new hot download site? I've been using KaZaA, and the amount of quality music/movies is dwindling.

[July 4th]

Right now, I'm trading mostly DJ sets, which actually are legal to trade. (Fancy that!) But there's just a ton of stuff out there. D/l the software, and then look at the list of public hubs for what you're interested in. Each channel has a chat forum, where moderators enforce share minimums (and in some cases legality of files).

http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

[richmwill]

As someone said earlier- Good news. No more suing 12-year-olds. I'm sure Metallica will be deeply saddened and depressed by this- as they sleep in their luxury bedrooms of thier multi-million dollar homes, while a 10-year-old downloads "Happy Birthday To You". Oh- that would just KILL them, I feel SO sorry for them (sarcasm off).

Rich

[Mixer]

DC++ is not at all user freindly but there is good stuff to be found there. The software is also not firewall friendly.

Just some FRiendly advice.

[EPD]

I hope you are not serious about stealing music for celebration purposes. As conservatives, aren't we supposed to support morality and upright behavior?

[mylife]

Thanks for the tip!

By the way, If anyone out there is shaking their head about my dloading. I generally look for stuff I have purchased before but have worn it out(shoddy product) and the record company has since stopped selling.

[Squantos]

Dang ! Now where did I hide that copy of Kaza lite ?!?!?

[bert]

For the record, where/what is the best download site?

I am old and very far behind the times. I quit when NAPSTER went off the air.

[CatoRenasci]

Kazaa is loaded with spyware. I dumped it almost three years ago and won't allow it on any of my, my firms or my children's computers.

[brownsfan]

Why are these greedy old men at the RIAA so stupid. The equation is very simple:

Who downloads, (generally)? - Kids. Usually kids who don't have the money to spend on a lot of CDs. Many kids who I know that download would STILL buy CDs.

Who buys music? - People with enough money to do so. Generally, (I know, generalizations are flawed), people with enough money to buy music don't have time to download, sort, and burn. (ME). I know how, I can, I choose not to.

Net effect of the RIAA Draconian measures? - Many, (including me), refuse to buy new music. I go to the "Record Exchange" and buy used CDs. Screw the RIAA. And, they have managed to make music pirates look like sympathetic figures.

Nice job RIAA - how does it feel to be the modern equivalent of the dodo bird?

[commish]

I dloaded all of the BBC's "coupling" episodes off file sharing, and they are good qaulity, but they dont approach the quality of the DVD's I purchased!

Exactly what I do with movies I am "considering". There are some movie's "LOTR" "STAR WARS" "XMEN" that are must buys, but if it is a movie that I think might be ok but don;t want to burn $15-30 on and be dissappointed, I use the download route as a screening tool.

I went the route of burning DvD's at one time, but even with a "DVD Quality" download the quality is just not the same. So now I will download a movie, check it out, if it worthy of the collection I then go out and purchase it.

I do the same thing with music. No matter how good the quality of the MP3, it does not match the quality when burned. SO I will download music I am considering purchasing, and then buy it if I decide it is worth paying the price.

[ClintonBeGone]

Excellent. Bunch of punks. Imagine if the government went after their personal data? These Hollwierd sissys would be whining to no end.

[mylife]

kazaa lite + + is spyware clean

[ßuddaßudd]

I am not a heavy downloader of music, but I do use and recommend trying WinMX & EarthStation5. Give them a try. ßß

[ClintonBeGone]

Kazaa is sooo "2000." There's much better stuff out there, with a lot more files. Once again, the recording industry is several steps behind.

Like where?

[Tree of Liberty]

Check out BitTorrent. There's something of a learning curve to figure out where to find files, but there's a LOT out there.

Also, there's an " experimental" (read:hacked) version that allows you to throttle the d/l and u/l speeds.

[Destructor]

Great! Now I can start buying CDs again. It's been a long four months.