RIAA Sues LimeWire Over Piracy

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IceBrewedBeer

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That's excatly what RIAA is trying to do. Many of you don't get it that RIAA is good.
good piracy=bad, usa needs to dedidate more resources into combating piracy, we need to go after users of all sizes and shapes to set an example

damn kiddies no.gif piracy is evil no.gif get a job and pay for it no.gif

Take your support for Corporate America and shove it. I support the artists through..posters, tshirts, and concerts. ;)

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revvo

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That's excatly what RIAA is trying to do. Many of you don't get it that RIAA is good.

RIAA is good? You must be working for them huh, or really blind?

Some artists encourage the practice of sharing their music on p2p networks in order to get themselves known but of course RIAA doesn't approve despite doing this to "defend the artists hard work".

RIAA doesn't care about the artists, is that more clear? They're just very very greedy. They could do like the MPAA and attack the sources, shutting down websites instead of suing individuals but no, the RIAA attacked and sued many individuals like a woman who doesn't even own a computer or 12 yr old children who can barely buy themselves a Mars bar and are expected to pay a fine by RIAA.

Yes Lets sue everyone and make money **** yeah that solves the problem! Can't you see it doesn't work? They keep on sueing ppl and there are still many ppl downloading and many networks out there that are freely available to anyone.

Limewire makes it more than clear before downloading the client and within their client that it's not their responsibility if the user shares illegal files. So why should Limewire be held responsible? They are in no way encouraging ppl to share music. If anything, they're just making it easy to share any sort of files without any filters that usually never work anyway. It's like BitTorrent. It's easy as **** to share any sort of files but Bram Cohen made it clear that it was never intended for copyright infrigement.

Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Take that idealogy, replace gun by Application/Protocol and kill with "share files with".

This is a business model to sue people. It's not an ethical war to prevent theft. RIAA could careless about artists.

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Cyber Dog

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Who wants to explain to me how a $.99 song becomes worth $150,000? Hell if you steal something worth $20 from wal-mart they wont even press charges, but if you steal a 99 cent song you're liable for 150 grand? It's robbery and extortion on the part of the RIAA, plain and simple. I can't say stealing music is justified, but this is like capital punishment for a misdemeanor.

Furthermore, I don't think the ISP (ie Limewire) is at all responsible. When someone is stabbed to death, does their family sue the company that made the knife? Internet crime happens constantly, and this is the only time I'm aware of that it's the ISP's fault rather than the person committing the crime.

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Nashy

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That's excatly what RIAA is trying to do. Many of you don't get it that RIAA is good.

Riiiight. We live in Australia where the RIAA can't do anything, and our laws stop us from getting ripped apart from piracy.

The RIAA are not good, not at all. You think they really care about their artists? I bet their artists won't get one cent of any of the money they make.

Furthermore, I don't think the ISP (ie Limewire) is at all responsible. When someone is stabbed to death, does their family sue the company that made the knife? Internet crime happens constantly, and this is the only time I'm aware of that it's the ISP's fault rather than the person committing the crime.

They arn't an ISP. They are giving people the means to download the pirated music/videos/ etc.

I do agree, it shouldn't be them, everyone who downloads it correctly are asked to acknowledge that they won't use the application for illegal use.

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Gone

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Riiiight. We live in Australia where the RIAA can't do anything, and our laws stop us from getting ripped apart from piracy.

The RIAA are not good, not at all. You think they really care about their artists? I bet their artists won't get one cent of any of the money they make.

They arn't an ISP. They are giving people the means to download the pirated music/videos/ etc.

I do agree, it shouldn't be them, everyone who downloads it correctly are asked to acknowledge that they won't use the application for illegal use.

I think he was referring to the time that the RIAA and MPAA went after the ISP's for not filtering their user's internet. If that happens, I'm sure that we will soon go communist. Freedom of speech and thought banned by the RiAA. Judges can't make court case because RIAA controls them.

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Cyber Dog

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They arn't an ISP. They are giving people the means to download the pirated music/videos/ etc.

I do agree, it shouldn't be them, everyone who downloads it correctly are asked to acknowledge that they won't use the application for illegal use.

They are an ISP in the general definition of the acronym. They provide an internet based file sharing service. Furthermore, they are also giving people a means of downloading legal data as well. Unless they advertise illegal content or support illegal activity directly, it's just a side effect of the technology. Bittorrent has become an excellent example of this. It started out being primarily illegal content, however these days it is widely used to destribute legal, open source apps (as well as lots of illegal stuff).

The bottom line is, a tool is a tool. Take guns for example. How many people in society use guns for constructive purposes? How many for dangerous or deadly purposes? But you can't just take peoples firearms away, because despite the threat, there are also legitimate reasons to own them. Limewire is a tool, as is any P2P app... Nothing illegal occurs until an end user decides to break the law with it.

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Milan -

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Even some very wealthy people dont buy music, its just that limewire and other p2p progrrammes are much quicker to use. I dont see how anyone is losing so much out of it. People still buy music, artists still get money.

Does the RIAA only hvae power in the USA?

whats the RIAA thing we have for the UK?

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srjallan

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Even some very wealthy people dont buy music, its just that limewire and other p2p progrrammes are much quicker to use. I dont see how anyone is losing so much out of it. People still buy music, artists still get money.

Does the RIAA only hvae power in the USA?

whats the RIAA thing we have for the UK?

In the UK, we have the BPI (British Phonographic Industry), but they aren't anywhere near as bad as the RIAA.

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Trong

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^^ My thoughts exactly. There's no way in HELL the RIAA could get that amount of money from Limewire, as Limewire probably doesn't even have half of that amount. I'm guessing that they will just try to close them down, with some jailtime.

. . . Then of course with Limewire out of the picture, torrent sites are just going to get more and more popular. . .

People will use torrents when people become computer literate. Most people just understand the click and download but torrents are click, download, click, choose location, download. There's also port forwarding and firewalls.

I hope the whole Gnutella (?) network gets shut down.

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TCA

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if the RIAA wants to stop this they have to do it from the root of the problem... it's called suing the people who make cd ripping programs.... but they won't they will just continue to sue individuals like myself to pay them money that they will never see....bc im pimp like that n they're my b*****s! well i haven't gotten sued yet.... only bc im a torrent ###### so BIT TORRENTS FTW!

"Myz FirFoxz IZ Cras|-|InZ HELPZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111"

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Trong

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So you want them so sue MS? I mean, WMP does rip music. Of course, ripping is a great way to get music onto your computer.

You also think that you can't get caught on torrents? It's not that hard. If you seed to anyone, they should be able to see your IP address. Find that out and use an IP locator to find the exact location of the computer. I think I could do that...

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