p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- I haven’t written an article for p2pnet in a few weeks, and it’s not because of indifference. I’m sure regulars have seen me posting, so I’m around. I’ve been lately somewhat disenchanted with the whole p2p vs MAFIAA crap, and I didn’t really have anything to say, or write about.

Well this most recent post got me thinking.

Keith Henning writes about quitting his blog, which is very sad to hear. I started reading his entire blog. You should check it out.

But he makes a valid point. ‘These people who try to do evil seem to have infinite patience, as they always seem to outlast those who are trying to do good.’

It seems to be one tragedy after another, the RIAA is suing a Muscular Distrophy patient, an ethnic woman in NY who never saw a computer, printers, dead people… children, they even pursued the homeless guy and only dropped the case because they couldn’t find him to serve a supeona to!!

It’s abundantly clear where the MAFIAA priorities lie, and they’re not in ‘benefiting consumers with a more enjoyable experience’.

Yet more puff crap that will be regurgitated as gospel on every lamescream media mouthpiece able to speak. They eat this propaganda like snacks.

The MAFIAA offers deep, statistical analysis of file-sharing devastation from companies they invented to do exactly that ! Sheeple, wake up ! The EU guys trying to fight copyright extention to 95 years HAD TO MAKE A CARTOON to get their point across !

I call that Orwellian, and Darwinistic.

They know that the US is a lost cause. Too many people are standing up to the extortion now. The profit margin is dropping.

So they immediately fire MediaSentry, probably in order to disassociate themselves from the future class action civil suit MediaSentry is about to experience, and move to DtectNet, a Danish held company.

That tells me the RIAA sue ‘em all campaign is changing gears. But not in dropping law suits like they swear. They’re changing gear to start suing more Europeans now, with the same laughable evidence, from a similiar inept ‘expert’, pranced down to the media as cold hard fact.

Besides, they’re getting more love in EU from France, Italy, Belgium, and soon to be Spain, and the UK.

Shit, the Isle of Mann begged for a blanket ‘tax’ just to avoid the lawsuits entirely. They see it coming too.

First we had the CD tax, because if you buy a CD, you could use it to record music, any music, and so the RIAA must be allowed a cut for some invisible conjoured up ‘devastating effect’. If you remember, there was a similiar tax on cassette tapes back in the day, because they were strictly audio, and they used that as leverage to get the 1970’s benefit placed on 1980’s technology.

The movie industry has been complaining for years they don’t get a cut, because the CD could contain a movie ! Now they’re going after the internet for copyright infringement ‘tax’. And it’ll never stop. Ever. In whatever angle they can think of next, they’re under the impression you’re actually stealing from them, like from out of their front pocket while standing in front of them in broad daylight, stealing. They will never stop, they must be stopped.

I read another article here that was very interesting.

What actually is copyright infringement? Is just owning a copy of your buddy’s ‘Iron Man’ movie infringement?

Obviously, from the article referenced, his logic that downloading isn’t a violation, from an engineering standpoint, he’s right.

The hosting machine accepts the IPv4 request for packet exchange, and the hosting machine initiates the transfer until EOF. Technically the host ‘uploaded’ the data to your computer. So how would that look in Canada, where downloading is legal, but uploading is not? So what is infringement? Holding the CD of ‘Iron Man’, or actually playing it without watching (say, in the other room), or watching it, or watching it and enjoying it? If it’s the final, then I have only violated several copyrights being as I only enjoy around 5% of the crap the MAFIAA shits out.

The lawsuits are about distribution, ok, distribution is copyright infringement.

The dictionary defines distribution as : ‘the delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients’.

Ok, giving, no profit was established. Intended recipients, hmm, that’s somewhat vague. I host ‘Iron Man’ with the intent for members to access/download it, not necessarily for any particular member, or intended recipient. Is that infringement?

Well, according to the MAFIAA you bet your sweet biddy it is ! And a lost sale ! And devastating the industry !

Ok, so I distributed Iron Man, fair enough. I have a blueray digital copy. But wait! You can’t buy Iron Man on blueray yet? So, what is it’ ‘value’? I’m not selling it, Marvel Studios isn’t selling it. So, it’s worth the 20 some odd cents of HDD space it takes up?

So the RIAA wants to see Joel Tennebam’s parents’ computer. And what will that prove? Even if all 7 songs are still on the machine? What if Joel goes out and buys the album tonight, or whatever 7 songs they’re, and then wave the overpriced ‘product’ in their faces? The whole point of this really boils down to one question that I have..

‘wtf is up with the RIAA/MPAA asshats !?!?!?’

They’ve probably spent close to a quarter of a million on the SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum drama, for 7 songs ?!?!

And I thought my girlfriend bitched !

Several posts by Reader’s here are right on the mark. The RIAA will weasel out if the court case is going to be available to the internet. They’re fully aware of the impact they’re causing, as evident in the Jammie Thomas case where an Ars Technica correspondent oversaw Matt Oppenheimer surfing http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ during the trial. They know full well that we will rip them to shreds once the internet gets hold of any of the footage. Remember the shoe throwing games? You get the idea.

The MAFIAA is going to step up operations in EU with the Davenport & Lyons angle, they’ve already begun. We are forcing the industry to realize that it is now a global market on the internet. Just because you stop ‘camming’ in South Korea, or shut down kiosks outside overseas military installations, make movie theatres charge more for the infrared goggles to stop the ‘criminals’, or step on ISP’s necks like the Warner vs Turner Broadcasting, Warner vs Google, fuck, Warner vs everyone extortion routines,this has no bearing on file-sharing, none whatsoever. zip, nada. Please continue.

Hell, you read the Oscar report by waxy.org. We don’t bother with cams anymore asshat, we get dvd screeners from your dumbasses ! The dvd screener you send to UK on Monday, that is for a movie that opens in the US on Friday, can be found on the torrents on the Wednesday in between. Average screener, 6 days. Regardless of the country it opens in. There are indigenous movies that are making the file-sharing rounds that they won’t EVER release in other countries. This shows a demand in Greece for an Irish movie, hello? Now THAT is a lost sale.

The MAFIAA is in its own way.

We already have a global distribution network built and growing better every day. Catch on, or be left behind, your cassette tape angle ain’t gonna cut it with ISP enforcement. I, like many ‘avid’ file-sharing admins have considered safety and security paramount since before the RIAA could even say IP Address and we all collectively banned bittorrent usage over 5 years ago. The average file-sharing individual is typically a very internet savvy power user, middle to upper class, and has an IQ that would make Timothy M. Reynolds’s head spin. We don’t use bittorrent, we don’t use Limewire, we don’t use KaZaa, these are for all the sheeple to share, this is the bottom of the pyramid, not the top.

This is where content ‘ends up’, not begins. I’m sorry for those that have been entrapped by the RIAA drift netting, but someone was guilty, I’m sure. You need to RTM.

I make zero profit file-sharing, nothing, actually it costs me quite a bit for the internet pipe. It’s a hobby, I would actually buy more ‘corporate product’, if they weren’t so fast to shove a 300usd/hr lawyer up your ass and have him move in for 4 years over 7 songs. There are shows I would be willing to pay for, but refuse. I rip them during broadcast and edit the garbage out and suffer the ‘channel overprint’, (read commercials DURING the show) instead of buying clean episodes. (That I can rip to digital anyway.) My point is that you broadcast it, I recorded it so I could enjoy it in ‘my time slot’, not yours. Oh and I shared a copy, my buddy likes the show too. Which leads to more interest, and more interest, and MAYBE a return on your product, like buying schwag, or clean episodes.

Convincing me that a 45usd piece of biodegradable plastic is ‘value’, and I’ll convince you I have a bridge for sale in Queens. But if I like your product, on my terms, not yours, THEN you can have my money, reasonably priced of course.

Until then, I’ll continue to file-share around 250gb/mo.

Share the wealth!

Surfer – p2pnet

January , 2009

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