Comments on: Did Jammie share 1,700 songs?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:35:21 +0000

Is there no moral in earning money this way? Is money worth ruining other people’s lives? Is money important enough to incriminate virtually every person with access to the Internet?

Where can we download her playlist?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:00:51 +0000

A few days ago I found one recordable dvd disk on the street.
Back home i found out the dvd had 1700 mp3 songs. Many, of about 50 I played are great songs I had never heard before.

The questions are:

If Iam trapped red handed with the DVD, while trying to find the DVD owner…
- Should i stop hearing more songs? Is each listening a crime?
- Can RIAA get $136,000,000 ($80,000 x 1700) after being hanged by a Jammie Thomas-Rasset type jury?
- Can I be charged with possession of stolen goods?
- Will I get a discount for the public domain songs in the DVD?
- How do I find out which are the public domain songs so I know which songs I can copy to my hard diskd and which ones I cannot copy?
- Should i play it safe and hand over the DVD to the RIAA and confess?
- I am at risk of being detected by Lucky and Flo?
- Can I wind up in the list of terrorists?
- Should I sell my house so that it cannot be foreclosed for paying legal and whatever sentence is given me?
- Where can I borrow about the $100,000 needed to pay my defense lawyer?
- Would it be advisable to simply pack up and move up to Canada?
- Is Canada a safe from RIAA country?
- If Canada is not a safe from RIAA country, which one is?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:53:07 +0000

I followed the trial quite closely, and they didn’t show that *any* tracks were downloaded by anyone except by the mafiaa.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:22:37 +0000

“Did anyone ever prove that all of those songs were downloaded 100% from her? Because the way I understand it (and i could easily be wrong), those p2p programs download the file in pieces from whoever has the piece that is needed next.”

I can’t answer that, but…

It would be almost trivially easy for a programmer to modify a copy of any file sharing program to add an option that would only download from a single IP address. All they would have to do is enter the address they want and have the program reject downloads from any other source. Of course this wouldn’t magically make them instantly download only from that one IP address, but it would ensure that they didn’t get any parts from any other source.

You could even do it using IPFilter.dat, just make it block every IP address except the one you want.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:49:10 +0000

Did anyone ever prove that all of those songs were downloaded 100% from her? Because the way I understand it (and i could easily be wrong), those p2p programs download the file in pieces from whoever has the piece that is needed next.

And do they realize how long it would take 1 person, let alone millions, to download 1700 songs from her? Her computer would have to be online, uploading at her internet connection’s max capacity, 24/7 for months if not years to accomplish that. The math just doesn’t make sense.

By: cqb

cqb — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:36:32 +0000

Is the 1700 songs that they are now referencing a way to “spin” the $1.92millon into appearing credible to the press/readers etc ?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:59:27 +0000

I can’t figure out how they come up with 80 grand a song.

Music is free these days … if you want it for free.
If the potential downloaders don’t get it from Jammie, they would just get it somewhere else for free.

There are 5-too-many zeroes on the end of that figure.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:35:09 +0000

I nominate ” Jammie Thomas-Rasset, currently the most famous of the vicious persecution of Big 4 record label customers by the Big 4, has been there twice before.” as the most incomprehensible sentence ever. Or maybe I’m just slow.

Anyway, great article. Just thought the first sentence was a little funny.