If I were a p2p engineer, I would be putting the finishing touches on a protocol indistinguishable from HTTP.

If I were a major record label, I would settle the 35,000 lawsuits for $30 each. That’s $1 million. Take that money, start an etail website that offers uncompressed audio for under $1 per track, and make a billion dollar profit.

That’s the key right there …

Due Process.

That’s what the RIAA are desperately trying to avoid.

If the ISP wrongly terminates your connection based on faulty or no evidence, then
who has to pay to initiate the suit ?

Why the customer of course.

This forces the customer to decide whether or not their meager resources are enough to
fight a multimillion dollar corporation ( the ISP ) with a large nest of highly paid
lawyers at their beck and call.

Sounds familiar.
Who thinks they can afford to fight ?

It’s a way to not only doge due process, but to shift the responsibility, the bill, and most important,
the BLAME to someone else.

Now who out there can afford to bring such a suit against an ISP ?

What kind of business in its right mind would want that?

And as Bob Lefsetz says [http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17950], “As for cutting off their service for stealing via their ISP… As my mother always says, what a way to make friends and influence people. And if you think you can willy-nilly cut off someone’s Internet service without a hearing, without due process, then you probably think that General Motors can suspend a person’s right to drive.”

Cheers!

If any spare RIAA lawyers suddenly find themselves with time on their hands, then they can sue a few national ISPs. Or bribe them. How did they put it? Carrot and stick approach?

Now, that’s just speculation.

All I know for sure is that if the RIAA succeeds with ISPs then we’ve got both 35,000 lawsuits AND the Industry acting as unlicensed Internet police. I seem to remember that being illegal in my State.

Erm… Selling content to the MAFIAA for a percentage? Greed is a surprising motivator Jon

NOw you add htis crap and how many clients will the isp have?
no one using the internet for music or movies OH my guess were back the the late to mid 90’s when we just stole internet and hacked accounts again.

YUP get ready, if big business dont play nice were ready to play with there toys no matter what they say.

haha now want to get furthar along then that.
use hackable software
( dont use your credit card online ofcourse ) and open that wifi wide open.

Time to give them so many bad ways to try and say it was you that it will be a quick death.

Cheers!

If they think that this will stop file sharing, I got news for them. I’ll carry a TB drive with me and offer whatever someone I know wants off the drive. Know what? Isn’t a IP to trace. Transfers will be far faster than they could have gotten on line. Plus they can get boodles more than would have been possible on line.

I’m still curious how they gonna tell what you are sharing if I hide it in an image?

Enounght is enounght!

If they can’t sue you they go after your ISP … who has no rights to police you or cut you off when you have paid your bill.
Since Rogers, Bell and others in Canada side with Big $ it’s obvious why I and many others have turned to hosting companies to provide full speeds for locals users. No I won’t say where or IP addies. Search one out in your area, usually the faster connection around

It’s also a great idea to turn the tables on Telco’s and RIAA etc., and charge whoever cuts you off for your losses. Gong rate is about 45 to 80 per hour.

We also use free Wifi bounced through many nodes to access internet and get sensitive info and files on what we call Satanists. Satanists due to the fact they are all part of the small group running this world just like Satanists and they mostly belong to Satanist groups. We serve these files for locals to share.

We also serve as many mp3’s, movies and other cool stuff from local free servers and AP’s. Anyone is free to dwld and upld all they want as long as they use RESPECT. Anyone caught doing damage is nuked and or their equipment confiscated. There are ones who can track you instantly and nuke you before you make it to the end of the block. Some even have high output EM generators take care of anyone war-driving. One shot and your electronics in your wheels are toast.

Many AP’s and servers are tied together to provide even more content. There are numerous AP’s and servers who have more than 2.5 million free files. You name it they got it. Many are right under the elite’s noses. No I won’t tell you the schemes they use to hide. Let’s just say you need to be creative. Many state, All donations are gratefully accepted, … be nice and donate whatever you can. Whether it’s time, equipment, dollars or another free hot spot … donate.

This will put the Satanists out of biz.

Your project is to become educated and create your own, tie it to others and share!

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081219/0225073172.shtml

And don’t forget to CONVINCE your friends not to buy CDs, DVDs, BluRay’s or anything else made by the entertainment cartels.

Independent publishers are suffering from them too: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1462

Find a friend who has a copy already, and copy it to your external hard drive.