Comments on: The RIAA and Shareaza

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:16:41 +0000

I have been using an ‘older’ Shareaza package. I suppose if the RIAA continues to try to force me to pay for music that is sub-par, I just won’t buy any. If they expect me to pay for music, they had better give me the freedom to listen to it first. If it’s good, I always pay for it. They know this, they may not like it, but they know it clear as day.

Personally, I think P2P as an ideal will never die out. Even if you buy, steal, or sue every network into the ground, there are always the individuals who can and do share content through messengers, and of course the good old in-person swap.

To the RIAA itself..

Do not cut into my enjoyment of media. If you do so, I will cut into your profits. This, I guarantee.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:49:32 +0000

Anonymous can run, or hide, or sit in plain sight.

P2P will not go away, despite any lawsuits, despite any threats.
Suing your supplier’s fans doesn’t make them more eager to buy your CDs.
Assuming some fateful day passes and it becomes possible to stamp out P2P, the populace will remember the lawsuit phishing against five-year-olds, college students, and grandma, and turn away from the RIAA and the big 4 entirely to find a plethora of free internet radio, artists offering their work for free or for donations, and the company will crumble.

The practice of selling a CD with one good song and a fistful of crap filler for $30 is no longer viable, because the market price of copied music is near nil. The practice of taking over a P2P client’s domain name with strong-arm tactics and deceit to sell songs will fail even where traditional online selling would have worked, because it alienates the user base. The policy of shutting down P2P will not increase CD sales, it will eliminate the most significant source of free advertising and replace it with nothing. People will continue to refuse to buy CDs because the value is not worth the price. Record labels are obsolete. Performances are valuable. Charge more for concerts to get your money. They’re still selling out, so tickets are too cheap.

The internet has changed the value of video and audio formats, and market forces have taken over. Adapt or die, because you can’t sue the change away.

By: John

John — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:41:26 +0000

I found this link on the CMS Made Simple Forum regarding Shareaza! Please give it a look:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php?topic=20984.msg102048

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:21:09 +0000

Proof? Here’s your proof: http://www.shareazasecurity.be/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1070

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:06 +0000

The RIAA is PIRATING Shareaza!

By: Havvy

Havvy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:21:57 +0000

I wish for LimeWire to die out, either by force (where the RIAA/MPAA comes in handy), or just by people leaving it. Frostwire is better for that.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:40:16 +0000

To Brain Bended:

“So you think the entertainment industry is gonna win too? Interesting.”

You are so, so stupid! Not surprising for someone working for the entertainment industry!

Everyone reading this understood that this is not what I meant. You are on the sinking boat you moron! The name on it is RIAA and you have better to get out NOW!

As far as your dictionary is concerned, did you do it yet?

Your English suck to. Me I have an excuse; you don’t.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:02:49 +0000

Well then, might I suggest you conduct yourself befitting a manner of intelligence with an intent to debate rather than to flagrantly demean posters whose literacy skills are not up to par with your expectations. It’s obvious you need to be a bit more respectful regardless of another’s level of literacy or lack of proficiency in the english language. It was low of you to resort to attacking a poster on a personal level.

BTW, I can understand and I do appreciate your contributions in these forums. You do have some interesting comments. You add spice, and other’s the flavor, to the whole ingredient of debate. And, I forgive you for misspelling ‘akchually.’

By: Fassbender

Fassbender — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:43:12 +0000

As I said above, I don’t have any connection with the entertainment industry, so it’s a bit silly calling me an RIAA troll isn’t it?

“And you are excessively stupid to still hang around with a pack of morons, on a sinking boat, fighting for a lost cause.” So you think the entertainment industry is gonna win too? Interesting.

“My English is what it is and I have a message for you: Take your English dictionary roll it and fuck yourself with it. Is it good English? ” That’s hilarious my friend! And well-written too, of course - well done.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:32:06 +0000

To Brain Bended:

“Bloody hell, your English is excessively poor”

And you are excessively stupid to still hang around with a pack of morons, on a sinking boat, fighting for a lost cause.

My English is what it is and I have a message for you: Take your English dictionary roll it and fuck yourself with it. Is it good English?

You are an RIAA parasite and I did not know that RIAA parasites are also infesting the English dictionary!

While you “don’t actially!!!!!!” agree with my post but would not object as long as it’s written in the same intelligent manner as your; the Intelligence of the music industry you are working for, that produced BritneySlute and MadonaCrap, I have no objection to the fact that you are now irreversibly enraging your customers so that they will never buy anything from you again, since I want you out of business.

Take that to your Boss RIAA agent!

By: Fassbender

Fassbender — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:14:23 +0000

Oops! I misspelled “actually”. Can’t correct it now, unfortunately. lol

By: Fassbender

Fassbender — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:13:15 +0000

“My advice to you: if you can’t take criticism, stay off the forum.”

I don’t mind *what* people say, as long as as they don’t write like illiterate cretins, examples of which I see all over the net. For example, while I don’t actially agree with your post, I have no objection to it, as it’s written in an intelligent manner. Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:55:26 +0000

Gee, Fassbender

If you’re gonna troll a pro-p2p forum playing the devil’s advocate, what did you expect?

I think it is you who are “..stupid beyond belief…”

My advice to you: if you can’t take criticism, stay off the forum.

By: Alter_Fritz

Alter_Fritz — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:37:41 +0000

“Doing so makes you look more professional, and your comments will be taken more seriously.”

if you can go back here like you claim why haven’t you edited out your grammar error?

Aber wie sagt eine alte Trollweisheit so schön: Wenn du (als der Troll) keine inhaltlichen Argumente gegen die anderen Diskutanten aufbringen kannst dann kritisiere ihren Stil, ihre Rechtschreibfehler oder die Art wie sie den Text gruppieren.
Und wenn das alles nicht hilft weil du selbst nicht helle genug bist vorgenanntes als gut oder schlecht zu beurteilen dann kritisiere Ihren Nick, das geht immer.

Given that old manual decription, you Fassbender are a b+ Troll and sharkdude is probably just one of your sockpuppets.

By: sharkdude

sharkdude — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:12:22 +0000

FASSBENDER: Good one! Not sure if the problem is lack of English, though. Looks like he has that Stephen Hawking disease. Nothing ruffles my feathers more than someone who can’t be bothered to type properly, or fix his/her typos. This is not MSN. You have a chance to go back and edit your comments before posting. Doing so makes you look more professional, and your comments will be taken more seriously.

By: Name Withheld

Name Withheld — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:20:21 +0000

Shareaza is an ongoing fight that will take a year to settle, if ever.

Sufficient evidence already proves the iMesh RIAA/IFPI proxy connection:
(And such hypocritical disregard for IP should be getting a lot more play.)

http://www.shareazasecurity.be/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=916 (iMesh domains)
http://www.shareazasecurity.be/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=913 (iMesh CEO)
http://www.shareazasecurity.be/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=828 (Trademark)
http://www.shareazasecurity.be/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=34 (Lawsuit+Hijack)
http://www.shareazasecurity.be/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=914 (iMesh pdf)
http://www.shareazasecurity.be/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=752 (Threats)

Add to this the recent disruptions to Limewire:
http://forum.limewire.org/showthread.php?t=3818

By: Fassbender

Fassbender — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:45:15 +0000

Bloody hell, your English is excessively poor, my friend. (gag) Reading through crap like that is really quite offensive. You should not post on any English forum again, my friend.

Some examples:

“Shareaza just like many others P2p2 Application”, “It’s mean”, “Aplication”. This whole sentence is fucked: “There are hundred of thousands of people like me (at least) spread in many countries and ten of thousand are actually actively developing p2p applications right now as I speaks.”

A gem: “ourt money elswhere and there is absolutly nothing you can do about it. You could destroy internet and it will not do a think for you!”

And finally: “Fastbenders”. You are too stupid to copy a name off a screen! With English like that, I refuse to take anything you say seriously at all. I don’t care if English is not your first language, you are stupid beyond belief. Speak it properly or bugger off English forums.

And finally, I have no connection with the RIAA/MPAA whatsoever.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:58:50 +0000

Fastbenders tell your boss at the RIAA/MPAA the above and the following.

As far as p2p application is concerned you are wasting you time parasites!

There is no way to prevent people from continuing to develop P2P application. You rob a domain name? You rob a trade mark if you succceed, (and this is by no mean certain) so what?

It will not stop people from continuing to develop, distribute and use Shareaza.

Shareaza just like many others P2p2 Application is open source.

It’s mean that every one can get the source code and build on it. I have the source code of all the majors p2p application including Shareaza and I can continue to develop it and distribute it myself.

There are hundred of thousands of people like me (at least) spread in many countries and ten of thousand are actually actively developing p2p applications right now as I speaks.

Aplication come and go and if you think that you have anything to do with it you are delusional.

So far you did not even put a dent in the p2p Traffic you idiots! Sooner rather than later you will have to pay back for the extortion campaign you conducted and every day passing while you are doing this is diging your grave deeper.

Beside even if you could stop the development of application such as Shareaza or Emule as impossible as it is it will not stop people from using it because these application are stand alone and do not rely on any central server that soemone has to operate. Such application is both a server and a client.

Tell your boss that they are wasting their time and the little money they hav left. So far they achieved nothing but sink their business. Shooting we are winning we are winning like shitman is doing while the boat is half in the water just make you look ridiculous and pathetic.

The bottom line is that we the customer decided to spend ourt money elswhere and there is absolutly nothing you can do about it. You could destroy internet and it will not do a think for you!

Oh and this: if you think that twenty percent down in your business in 2007 is bad wait for the 2008 result! The Boycott is expending!

Citizen! Do you part for your country and your felow patriots and protect our liberty!

Get ride of the foreigns parasites and the traitors they employ!

BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT!

NO CD NO DVD NO DOWNLOAD NO NOTHING UNTIL THEY DIE!

DO NOT FEED THE PARASITES!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:38:37 +0000

Thank goodness for emule which still has everything (and more) available through Limewire/gnutella or Bittorrent. It’s always been the best source for truly hard-to-find media and best for complete albums and often for older movies (ones with dead torrents).

By: Fassbender

Fassbender — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:39:24 +0000

Another way to look at this of course, is that p2p users and the people that create this illegal p2p infrastructure can run, but they can’t hide and that’s what matters.

Eventually, it will be too much hassle to set up any more p2p programs or websites - nailing the The Pirate Bay will be when the tide turns, because of it’s infamous brand recognition - and with the legal frameworks that are being increasingly hammered into place (hey, it’s a long hard slog, people!), key instigators in this scene will end up going to prison and paying heavy and generally have their lives ruined in the good name of corporate profits.

THEN the Creative Industries utopia will be achieved - and DRM will return with a vengeance. Trust me, the great unwashed will buy their products.