More anti-RIAA, -MPAA ideas
p2pnet.net News Feature:- A p2pnet reader, Jeff M, proposed an interesting idea: use some carefully guided muscle to hit the RIAA and MPAA owners right where it hurts – in their wallets.
His thoughts sparked off a thread on ways and means to drive it home to the movie studio and record label cartel that they can’t keep on suing their customers.
Sue ‘em back !
MNRider said, “If every P2P user filed a harassment and restriction of liberty claim against them in the small claims court of their state, they would be forced to use some of this litigation money to respond to each suit.
“Now imagine that people were to actually get a local court to agree that there activities were a violation of our rights and awarded claims. They are now forced to file appeals. Here is the nice part. If your suit is filed and given a court date, you can then use the power of the subpoena to obtain their ISP logs, their internal emails and memo’s in your attempt to show they willingly and knowingly violated your rights. “Cost? About 25.00 in my state. Their cost? At 450.00 an hour for attorney fees a bit more.
“Another thought is to simply stop buying music.
“Send a letter to your favorite artists and tell them you are sorry; but that the RIAA has no right to dictate what you can and can not do with your computer and that you are therefore forced to stop buying music and instead will download and enjoy the new realm of exciting and unique music that direct to consumer P2P distribution offers.
“Search, and you will find that for every artist that you really like there is someone new and fresh who has something to offer you. In addition, you will expand your tastes and understanding of the art by the sampling you will be doing.
“Cost to you? Savings of 15-30.00 per cd. Cost to them? Loss of revenue from you and the others like you.”
Hire a Private Eye
“Those of you who are pissed off and don’t agree with how the RIAA/MPAA are handling the situation should donate $5 to some fund,” says another post.
[The] “fund should be used to hire Private Investigators who will then target the people running RIAA, MPAA and their immediate families. I wonder who in those 2 organizations have dirt to hide, and who has kids openly doing the exact opposite of what they preach.
“They are targeting senior citizens and extorting money, so now’s the time to go after them and watch very high level resignations from these organizations…
“The gloves should come off – just a thought.”
Wi-Ffle ‘em to death
“Another way to stop RIAA extortion is to make it too expensive," said anothr Reade’s Write. "Make the RIAA have to drive through local neighborghoods and college campuses to try to find file sharers.
“This is easier than you know. I work near a neighborhood of college students, and someone has set up a wireless network which is not connected to the Internet.
“This network had all kinds of music video and other stuff freely downloadable. Although you do have to be within a certain distance of the access point, there is more content for the asking than in any other 1 area I’ve been.
“I am thinking about setting one of these up myself.”
Up on the roof
And here’s a thought from a comment to another post:
"[...] we need for people to come together and build their own infrastructure. 1 county-wide network of wireless stations and rooftop access points and just 20% of the users trading file would ensure that just about everyone could find the movies, software and music they want 
Since it would be controlled by the people bandwidth limits would be that of the equipment."
Build a private network
"Another plan would be to create a large sneakernet community. You can start by getting a few friends together to swap burned cds and dvds of stuff, or do file swapping over a privately-created network.
“I don’t think that the RIAA or MPAA have the resources to check every private home for copied material …”
Enjoy a little Java
"Sneakernet / local wireless networks are a perfect combo. I’m setting up my lappy and will be distributing CD’s. All that is needed is a standard way to request a file. A little Java applications will allow a computer in the LAN to connect to a server and request a certain title. The server can request this very same title whenever another computer joins the network. If this is done right one can download whatever he or she wants on his or her way to work, shopping or even a date. Let the MPAA, RIAA, or BSA try to stop that I burnable DVD can hold thousands of mp3’s. Wireless LAN’s, sneakernet, and snailmailnet should give the cartels what they deserve."
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See:-
in their wallets – How to stop the RIAA and MPAA, p2pnet, February 12, 2005
February 15th, 2005 at 10:02 pm
I got my coding mind already going. I am in the process of writing the appy. I just need ideas for features.
I am working a Java based web server that will allow users to PUT to a specific directory(ies). What I want to do also is create a database of files that are available for download. The idea is for a user to be able to type in the name of a song, artist or filename into his or her laptop computer, leave the computer on, and have the computer search for the file to download when the computer enters a WIFI area.
Imagine getting your favorite flick or song while commutting to work. If setup properly, this would work like traditional peer to peer software. But since there will be different network nodes, Network Names, and ip addresses as well as intermittant connections, a way will have to be designed so that portions of a file could be grabbed when available. There will also have to be a standard way of specifying the file name and author. There should also be a standard file signature so that two different rips of the same song or movie won’t bollix a download.
Ideally, there should also be a way to keep snoops who want to cause trouble out of the server. The files on the Wifi server should be encrypted so that any troublemaker will need a key to physically access the computer the files are hosted on.
- author of SpamFryer
February 16th, 2005 at 12:31 am
two ideas for any potential P2P programers
1) The existing P2P could be modified to allow a certain amount of your bandwidth for throughput. This bandwidth is then use to have random proxies, who only know the next hop, each block of data could have a different set of proxies.
2) a bit more complex, rather than each person holding files, evrybody who partakes in the P2P has a tiny (varing) chunk of distributed database. any shared files are simply uploaded and dispersed into the network – nobody has the data
February 16th, 2005 at 12:42 am
These people are very similar to the people that barage my snail mail box with junk mail. So we turn something that pisses us off, to something that will piss them off. Basically, everyone just takes the time to send at least 1 mail order catalogue to the following address :
15503 Ventura Boulevard
Encino, CA 91436
Prank Phone Call Number: 8189956600
Thats the MPAA, and this is the RIAA
1330 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 300
Washington DC 20036
Prank Phone Call Number: 2027750101
Basically a barage of junk mail would cause an administrative knightmare to their offices. Prank phone calls always go over well. They always have to have valid Whois information. We should just attack that with perfectly legal ways. Sounds like a plan to me. Oh and sign them up for credit cards and all sorts of other junk mail. (Like Columbia House, LOL)
February 16th, 2005 at 7:04 am
this PI account…where do i send my check?
February 16th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
âAnother thought is to simply stop buying music. “For a long time I am doing that because these RIAA<MPAA…are fat pigs they charge you almost 30$ for a DVD which costs them maybe 5$.That’s stealing from us.
February 16th, 2005 at 5:03 pm
ok just a thought here .. i agree that this attack everyone attitude by the mpaa is stupid but we are slandering them for protecting their product thtas like the the people stealing direct tv being mad that dave wants its money or if you made a product and was selling it but dsomeone else is reproducing it and selling it and not paying you this is stupid… i enjoy gettin movies and apps and mp3s but lets be reasonable dont get mad cause wqe are getting caught if you think that the reason you download movies is “they charge unfair prices for movies and use unfair practices” you are full oof it you download cause its free and you can just like everyone else. its ok to think that they suck and want to get them back abit but dont hide your crimes behind some blanket of crap come out and say it I LIKE TO STEAL MOVIES and we always find a better way to do it but come on “reasonable copyright” “they dont sell what we are downloading” gimme a break … they do sell it its just part of their marketing stratigy if you cant wait till they sell it your stealing plain and simple.. and anyone who says other wise is playing a game of samantics or just assinine and as for the same format freakin whiners buy the dvd when it comes out and re-encode it if ya want to be legal but for those of you that are happy with breaking the law like me just dont complain when they shut sites down and make the idol threats about comin after you cause it just isnt fealsble for them to come after individuals (only hosters of large arrays of movies) or for us to complain that they want to get paid for their product
February 16th, 2005 at 10:58 pm
Fair warning: the industry just LOVES busting dinky little encapsulated file-sharing nets. The little guys can’t protect themselves all that well, so busting private nets is a very economical way to add a few skulls to their pikes…that being said, if you’re going to do this, make sure you learn about how to scrap access logs to make it as safe as possible for your users, since these nets throw plausible deniability out the window…
February 17th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
There are several uses for independent networks. They can be use to distribute indie music and video’s, remote video (surveillance), homebrew information, or just plain simple catalogs.. Plausible deniablilty comes when you solicit uploads of same type of material. Just remove it or “take measures” if someone complains.
February 18th, 2005 at 10:42 am
Great ideas.