US Attorney General John Ashcroft reported that US agents had raided the homes of 5 people suspected of illegally trading copyrighted material. Agents raided homes in Texas, Wisconsin and New York, and seized computers involved.
Ashcroft, viewed by many as a hard-line Attorney General, remarked that "P2P does not stand for 'permission to pilfer'". He also commented that the he believed that the DoJ shouldn't turn a blind eye whilst piracy on such a large scale was taking place.
The targets of the raids were users of popular file sharing program, Direct Connect. The 5 people were acting as hubs; hubs are the Kazaa equivalent of "super-nodes" - users sharing massive quantities of files. Ashcroft said that each of the 5 hubs had 40 petabytes of data in them (ed - this figure seems massively in-correct - and would more likely be 40 gigabytes - perhaps terabytes. The DC website claims to have only just reached 1 petabyte of data network-wide.).
The DoJ hopes to reduce the spread of illegal piracy by taking down these main hubs of copyrighted material distribution. Asides from a physical effect, these raids haev a large psychological effect on the p2p community, as the RIAA and the MPAA have learned to their advantage. Record labels and associations have initiated about 4000 lawsuits over the last 2 years, most of them being settled out of court for $5000.
News source: in-house
Ashcroft, viewed by many as a hard-line Attorney General, remarked that "P2P does not stand for 'permission to pilfer'". He also commented that the he believed that the DoJ shouldn't turn a blind eye whilst piracy on such a large scale was taking place.
The targets of the raids were users of popular file sharing program, Direct Connect. The 5 people were acting as hubs; hubs are the Kazaa equivalent of "super-nodes" - users sharing massive quantities of files. Ashcroft said that each of the 5 hubs had 40 petabytes of data in them (ed - this figure seems massively in-correct - and would more likely be 40 gigabytes - perhaps terabytes. The DC website claims to have only just reached 1 petabyte of data network-wide.).
The DoJ hopes to reduce the spread of illegal piracy by taking down these main hubs of copyrighted material distribution. Asides from a physical effect, these raids haev a large psychological effect on the p2p community, as the RIAA and the MPAA have learned to their advantage. Record labels and associations have initiated about 4000 lawsuits over the last 2 years, most of them being settled out of court for $5000.
News source: in-house
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do the know the freakin difference between 40 petabytes and gigabytes..... go to some computer for dummies classes dude..... then blame us..... mofos.
more like 40 tb.
http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2004/82504ag.htm
"Operation Digital Gridlock is targeting illegal file trafficking of copyrighted material over peer-to-peer networks using Direct Connect software."
"On these 5 networks alone, more than 40 terabytes of material was available to be distributed and trafficked by the users on any given day."
"You can pay the fair value for music, movies, software and games like every other consumer, or you can pay an even higher price when you are caught committing online theft."
As anyone would know, some hubs currently share ten times those 40TiB and some more than 600TiB. But that's not the point. The point is to understand what they say. That law enforcement is picking up on the "smaller" networks and that they're going to make it hurt.
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Asides from a physical effect, these raids haev a large psychological effect on the p2p community, as the RIAA and the MPAA have learned to their advantage.
Haha! Yeah right. The use of P2Ps and the downloading of copyrighted music and warez is not slowing down. If this guy had 40 "petabytes" of storage space I doubt he is unable afford all the software he could need. I think somebody got their information very wrong.
its our job now to increase the flow.
I expect all software site even legit ones will be force to shutdown only to stop warez is to stop downloading altogether.
cause you can always crack a shareware program so why have a download site to intice people?
George Bush: The America people can kiss my A$$ I am for big Business! I hate people so much I took away their overtime greedy *******s CEO need a new manison!!!
Vote for Kerry Hope is on the way!!!! Want Freedom? Vote for Kerry!!!!
Last edited by 50903 on 26 Aug 2004 - 11:33
GIMP = Photoshop
Sodipodi = Illustrator
Abiword = Word
etc
if you think Kerry would take a different approach - wake up. These people are breaking the law- regardless of president, people are still going to be doing jail time.
Some people go past the equivalent of taking a cookie from it's jar...they literally steal an entire store.
If the DOJ stepped in, I bet it was cos they were selling it.
Billions if every pirated piece of software was instantly coverted to a retail sale...which is impossible, as the vast majority of people running pirated software would in no way be able to afford converting all of their software to retail licesnses...hell, between Windows XP Pro and Photoshop, right there you are looking at $1000 alone.
Kids, you better go get your parents checkbooks, the DOJ is in town.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/aug04/253972.asp
they are ****in money makers! don't you see!
Hardly. Most see him as an incompetent and arrogant a$$hole, just like the village idiot Bush. The only reason why he is going after these so-called pirats is because he has a song out and he doesn't want everyone to pirate it. Yeah, right, people are downloading it in droves.
Move to Canada, it is not illegal to download stuff up here if it is for personal use. The US is turning into a Christian theocracy where no one has any rights or freedoms at all.
The reality here is that the ELECTORAL College is a very proper system. Read up on pro-electoral college sites on the net or in books and you will see why it's in place. On the other hand, I don't think our democracy would be any different changed without it.
BTW, the US is not and has never been a Democracy. It is a Constitutional Republic.
As for the Canadian Government it is far superior in many ways to the system the US has. The party whitch gets the most votes actually wins the election. And if a leader proves to be incompetant he/she can be voted out in one vote. Under opur system Bush would have been ousted long ago and the US would have its dignity back.
So if we went with the popular vote then why would any politician visit any of the rural districts? What would be the point when the coasts and some cities in the midwest contain all the votes they would need (vast majority).
As far as discussing this, I suppose I chimed in on the wrong poster. You use name-calling rather than facts (or even a pundit-based arguing), so I'll just stop.
Interestingly, I don't like how the electoral college system doesn't reward any state for voter-turnout. If we don't enforce voter turnout in this country, I think we should reward it.
Last edited by 3234 on 27 Aug 2004 - 19:21
They are not after the votes of the citizens but the votes of the college instead. Why do you think they concentrate on states which had the most EC votes? It should be one person, one vote. To have it the way it is now makes the whole process a sham and a lie. How can you force democracy on others and yet not practice it yourselves? That's hypocrisy.
Asshcroft is an a$$.
Against the Electoral College = against minority issues. I don't mean racial so much as any minority in a country.
Ashcroft is a crazy character, but from what I have read (which is really subjective I must admit) is not in any amount of control.
They'll never stop P2P by fear, no matter how hard they try. They can't arrest every US citizen (well, hopefully there's a law about that somewhere). The only thing that will cripple P2P would be apple's theoretical harddriveless ipod, but who knows if streaming content would work.
All this means is someone else will share more to make up for the temporary loss.
<starts emule>
He is not, it is the RIAA filing suit against people who are breaking written law, which is perfectly legal. Kerry cannot do anything about this, because it is written law. If he repeals the law, the RIAA will file suit again, and he would never get anything like that through congress. He would probably assist b/c of his promise to "stop outsourcing," which he can't, but he will prob have the law more enforced so that the RIAA will keep jobs here.
AND REMEMBER: who are on John Kerry's campaign trail right now? Black Eyed Peas, Dave Matthews Band, etc. Forgetting the concerts to get bush out of office that are happening? That's right... Kerry's friends consists of a lot of musicians, so be prepared if Kerry gets elected. If the polls show Kerry is up, you prob should just uninstall all ur P2P stuff, b/c his friends will be calling in favors.
I buy my CD's and DVD's and listen to the radio quite a lot if I like the artist I buy there CD. That's what you should to do and not steal from P2P networks, I’ll be glad of they all closed down overnight (shame that's not possible)
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