Comments on: The agony of Emory U: Part II http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3951 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3951/comment-page-1#comment-10184 Reader's Write Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:34:59 +0000 #comment-10184 Good for you. But just for the record, downloading out of print music might be legal, but downloading foriegn music certainly is NOT. That includes anime fan subs, just because its not licensed in the USA does not mean you are not stealing it. The world is not part of the USA, the USA is part of the World. Good for you. But just for the record, downloading out of print music might be legal, but downloading foriegn music certainly is NOT. That includes anime fan subs, just because its not licensed in the USA does not mean you are not stealing it. The world is not part of the USA, the USA is part of the World.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3951/comment-page-1#comment-10149 Reader's Write Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:20:51 +0000 #comment-10149 This is exactly what I propose. I would like to see any method legal or otherwise brought against the music cartel. I have been proposing local wireless networks that are independent from the Internet. Students or anyone else can be a part of these networks. In fact, people can be on both a local network and on the Internet. People can use the local networks to share files that any network member is willing to share. Only if the file is not available on the local network will a person have to connect to the Internet to download the desired file. A local wireless network can be setup in an encrypted format and in many cases can be set to run in stealth mode so that the cartel goons (a.k.a.) will have a harder time sniffing them out. If people did this, then there would be less traffic from the school's network reaching the prying eyes of the media cartels. A single file being downloaded from the Internet only once will be a smaller blip than a 100 downloads of the same file. I am not condoning downloading RIAA music. I just want to take away the financial incentive for the media cartels to shut down this wonderful technology. P2p levels the playing field for those who deserve to be heard, but who do not have the funds to get on the cartel-controlled airwaves. I plan on helping two political parties, the Libertarian Party ( http://www.lp.org ) and the Constitution Party ( http://www.constitutionparty.com ) get their voices heard before the next election. The media I'm planning on using is P2P. I think that the media cartels are fighting P2P simply because they want to keep their monopoly on the information reaching the minds of the masses. It is time that we start fighting for our freedom, since the legislatures and courts have stopped doing so. This is exactly what I propose. I would like to see any method legal or otherwise brought against the music cartel. I have been proposing local wireless networks that are independent from the Internet. Students or anyone else can be a part of these networks. In fact, people can be on both a local network and on the Internet. People can use the local networks to share files that any network member is willing to share. Only if the file is not available on the local network will a person have to connect to the Internet to download the desired file.

A local wireless network can be setup in an encrypted format and in many cases can be set to run in stealth mode so that the cartel goons (a.k.a.) will have a harder time sniffing them out. If people did this, then there would be less traffic from the school’s network reaching the prying eyes of the media cartels. A single file being downloaded from the Internet only once will be a smaller blip than a 100 downloads of the same file.

I am not condoning downloading RIAA music. I just want to take away the financial incentive for the media cartels to shut down this wonderful technology. P2p levels the playing field for those who deserve to be heard, but who do not have the funds to get on the cartel-controlled airwaves. I plan on helping two political parties, the Libertarian Party ( http://www.lp.org ) and the Constitution Party ( http://www.constitutionparty.com ) get their voices heard before the next election. The media I’m planning on using is P2P. I think that the media cartels are fighting P2P simply because they want to keep their monopoly on the information reaching the minds of the masses. It is time that we start fighting for our freedom, since the legislatures and courts have stopped doing so.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3951/comment-page-1#comment-10147 Reader's Write Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:04:46 +0000 #comment-10147 Even if students have a pay-music service thrust upon them, many of them - perhaps even most - are still going to prefer getting their tunes from P2P, since P2P has no restrictions. The LAN network of a major university offers high speed and should have enough students to make a good collection of music. Instead of buying crippled commercial music services, colleges should invest in building an inter-LAN music streaming service that would allow anyone on the network to LISTEN to every song of every other person's collection. This should technically be legal as long as the files are not being copied. Universities should spend more effort looking at ways to devise a legal music-sharing service instead of paying into an extortion racket. The record industry has a long history of finding and exploiting legal loopholes - it's about time their victims/customers started doing the same. Even if students have a pay-music service thrust upon them, many of them – perhaps even most – are still going to prefer getting their tunes from P2P, since P2P has no restrictions.

The LAN network of a major university offers high speed and should have enough students to make a good collection of music. Instead of buying crippled commercial music services, colleges should invest in building an inter-LAN music streaming service that would allow anyone on the network to LISTEN to every song of every other person’s collection. This should technically be legal as long as the files are not being copied.

Universities should spend more effort looking at ways to devise a legal music-sharing service instead of paying into an extortion racket. The record industry has a long history of finding and exploiting legal loopholes – it’s about time their victims/customers started doing the same.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3951/comment-page-1#comment-10146 Reader's Write Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:48:02 +0000 #comment-10146 It is time for you to make conact with like-minded students and start a collection in order to hire a lwayer to fight this decision in a local court. When a court date is set, publish the information on as many blogs as you can so that the mainstream media is forced to cover it. I personally no longerr participate in RIAA music, and I, like you, resent the idea of being forced to pay for a product that I no longer wish to consume. I'm sure that the RIAA and the school will be able to buy more clout in the courtroom, but the black eye cast on the school may be more damaging. A company backed out of the mandatory student RFID most likely because of public outrcy and maybe possible threat of litigation http://p2pnet.net/story/3919 It is time for you to make conact with like-minded students and start a collection in order to hire a lwayer to fight this decision in a local court. When a court date is set, publish the information on as many blogs as you can so that the mainstream media is forced to cover it. I personally no longerr participate in RIAA music, and I, like you, resent the idea of being forced to pay for a product that I no longer wish to consume. I’m sure that the RIAA and the school will be able to buy more clout in the courtroom, but the black eye cast on the school may be more damaging. A company backed out of the mandatory student RFID most likely because of public outrcy and maybe possible threat of litigation http://p2pnet.net/story/3919

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