[Poohbah]

Beware.

The RIAA may simply insert a Trojan into Kazaa and Grokster clients in revenge.

Imagine, one day, finding that all of those MP3s on your hard drive that you're illegally sharing out have been replaced by kiddie porn and email encrypted with your private key...said emails detailing your involvement with al-Qaeda operations...and a last email to the FBI, digitally signed by yourself, sending them some of your kiddie porn.

Kazaa and its ilk are for 100% Grade-A idiots. Read the Kazaa license carefully. You basically give Kazaa complete control over your computer--FAR more than you allegedly cede to Microsoft when you install and activate Windows XP.

[AAABEST]

Your #11 is the posting of a deluded blockhead.

You tight-assed types can't stand when you encounter something that can't be controlled.

[borkrules]

Your "plan" sounds like something the RIAA parasites would think up after a few too many rounds with Jose Quervo at the local watering hole.

I suspect doing what you (tongue in cheek, no doubt) suggest would be slightly "actionable" in many senses of that word.

Is the brief you carry for the RIAA simply a product of an instinctual revulsion for "stealing" or do you collect a paycheck from them?

I see both sides of this argument, from an intellectual perpective. But RIAA, in tenanciously defending a business model that is going the way of the buggy whip and Betamax whether they like it or not, and doing it all in the most Snidely Whiplash manner possible looks increasingly foolish.

I don't know. Carry on righteously defending these heavy handed buffoons if it suits your fancy. Crap like this almost makes me want to go out and download kazaa, just to stick it in the eye of these dim-witted suits.

What's it going to take for someone to replace RIAA with an industry group that can develop a business model that reflects current reality?

[Jorge]

The RIAA may simply insert a Trojan into Kazaa and Grokster clients in revenge.

This would't surprise me one bit.

[Not Insane]

"Kazaa and its ilk are for 100% Grade-A idiots. Read the Kazaa license carefully. You basically give Kazaa complete control over your computer"

Amd Kazaa lite?

[Petronski]

Imagine, one day, finding that all of those MP3s on your hard drive that you're illegally sharing out have been replaced by kiddie porn and email encrypted with your private key...

Making RIAA a distributer of kiddie porn...

[mhking]

Read the Kazaa license carefully. You basically give Kazaa complete control over your computer

That's why KazaaLite is out there; and even then, primarily for those of us who know exactly what is on our machines at any given point in time...

[The FRugitive]

That's why you use Kazaa-lite. ;)

Kazaa lite is a cracked copy without the spyware.

[FITZ]

Imagine, one day, finding that all of those MP3s on your hard drive that you're illegally sharing out have been replaced by kiddie porn and email

It would seem that kiddie porn would be easily enough traced back to them and it would be illegal for them to send unsolicited kiddie porn ---I don't think it'd be very smart of them to try this.