Comments on: Johan Pouwelse vs RIAA’s Doug Jacobson

By: Miles Wright

Miles Wright — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:45:32 +0000

No, no, no. It’s not just “every download is a lost sale”, every time you copy and paste an MP3 from one folder to another, it’s a lost sale. Which means if you fill a 500 Gigabyte hard disk drive completely with copies of an MP3 of five kilobytes, you’re making the industry lose a total of 100,000 sales in songs.

So the next time you want to dent Mitch Bainwol in the wallet, you know what to do.

Oh, wait. Mitch doesn’t actually get dented at all, does he?

Keep up the good work, Jon! Cheers indeed!

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:23:04 +0000

@ Sam I Am

Cluck cluck cluck

Cheers!

By: Free Thinker

Free Thinker — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:59:19 +0000

You’re back! I thought you’d buggered off to spout your crap somewhere else?

I’ll bet you agree with that “RIAA rep” cretin 100% don’t you?

So “every download is a lost sale”, huh?

By: Sam I Am

Sam I Am — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:50:19 +0000

The complicated and self-deluding arguments that people offer to defend taking without paying for something properly for sale are old and tired, and discredited in courts all over the world.

Legal and fair online digital distribution of media and entertainment has been around for years now and this whole issue now rests on whether a just society can allow the taking without paying of product that is intended for sale. That, at the end of the day, is the point. Real fans of music, movies and books online put their money where their mouth is. The rest of you are rubbish.

By: RIAA rep

RIAA rep — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:34:47 +0000

Proxies, whatever. It’s the *routing* information that makes all the difference. People can indeed spoof addresses and so on and I can assure you that this is taken into account when we nail p2p thieves.

Once again: think about it, how else could many computers with the same address communicate on the internet?

Try not to be so quick to call me a troll next time, ok huh??

By: Just my two cents

Just my two cents — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:22:11 +0000

Troll alert!

RIAA Rep,

Get a life.

And while you are at it, take a good look at the technology before you spew your BS. I am sure that even you have heard of Internet proxys and IP spoofing, IP relaying, people hijacking Wireless APs etc…

I can’t help but wonder if you would be so coy, after you are on the receiving end of this farce.

Just my two cents

By: RIAA rep

RIAA rep — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:12:10 +0000

The filesharer is *not* identified from the IP address alone. This is constantly misleadingly reported here to further anti-RIAA propaganda.

Each packet has the IP address of the destination computer and CRUCIALLY, routing information. Together, this *DOES* uniquely identify the computer! The next stage is identifying the user and this is done by strongarming the ISP/university/whatever.

Think about it, how else could many computers with the same address communicate on the internet?