Comments on: File sharing, p2p criminals

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:37:55 +0000

There may be a lot of insanity in the government at all levels, but it is unlikely that a penalty of $150K per file will be imposed. The songs themselves are valued around $1, and to reach actual damages of $150K, someone would have to have proof that 150,000 complete files were distributed from them. Theoretical damages such as “potential downloads” shouldn’t carry much water.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:32:51 +0000

Most ISPs dump network logs after a month or three, so recording IPs that are dynamic won’t do any good!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:17:33 +0000

Jon,

Enjoyed reading your take in this piece. I heard the RIAA spent over 50 million on the lawsuit aginst two file-sharing developers, Grokster and StreamCast’s Morpheus. I hope the software and technology companies are victorious in defending themselves against the big Goliath. It will be a win for both sides as well as that unknown software developer crafting something new in his garage that need not worry about getting sued or asking permission from a bunch a fat cat executives.

Love the Joni Mitchell quotes. I met her at a coffee shop and she was all that.

Cheers,
Brian

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 May 2005 04:45:15 +0000

Nobody will take the RIAA on in court, unless they are crazy or don’t care about their finances. Do you really think rich people want to lose half or more of their money to pursue this? If they were found guilty of file sharing in court, they might have to pay $100 million and would have their reputation ruined if they didn’t win. Even to a rich person, $100 million is not chump change, with each file potentially costing $150,000 in court. Anyway, most superrich people probably don’t need to download anything off the internet. They could just buy a whole store’s worth of CDs for the extortionist prices. The only hope to stop this is at the government level, probably when Democrats get back into the president’s office (in other words, it will be too late by then.) Anyone that downloads very many “unauthorized” music files will be criminally tried by 2008, probably.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:05:07 +0000

The RIAA has captured enough IP addresses of file sharers to start the largest collection agency in the world. They are busy automating the money request process so that extremely large numbers of cases can be created and processed. The money they stand to make will be in the billions, making it unnecessary for them to even bother hiring musicians anymore.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:15:17 +0000

this is one of the gems

And by strange coincidence the number of stories per day is very roughly the same number as songs on an album.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:02:35 +0000

It’s too bad if your Hew Raymond Griffiths

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:58:02 +0000

Emmm….and there is no diff between fart and raft?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:25:21 +0000

This is an absolutely great article. Keep up the good work. And keep Canada free!

S.P.
Vancouver

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:56:14 +0000

…of the number of times Big Music has lied by saying “sucessfully sued”.

If one were to go through their press statements and count the number of outright lies we could keep a tally of how much misinformation they are spreading.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:55:54 +0000

Another good one.

Jon, you should put these kinds of articles into a separate directory - or maybe agreggate them - so they don’t get Lost in Space.

Morg

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:42:13 +0000

I’d be able to die peicefully if an artical this well phrased and accurate was actually put on national news!

sugestion :::
“In the meanwhile, no one has ever been found guilty of the crime of ‘file sharing,’ ”
crime should be the word in quotes… not file sharing lol… the fact that file sharing is a crime… is a false idea… therefor, when ever the need to refer to it as a crime arrises, crime should be in quotes.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:34:01 +0000

“Nor are the p2p networks and application operators (they could have, and should have, been used by the labels to enter the digital 21st century) the means by which crimes are being committed.”

that last “crimes” should have been in quotes… just a suggestion… lol

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:43:40 +0000

Anyone else notice there’s little difference between “promo” and “porno”?