Comments on: The RIAA: managing Jell-O http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6650 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/6650/comment-page-1#comment-22680 Reader's Write Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:06:16 +0000 #comment-22680 The third result is that it pisses the consumers off even more. This has not been emphasized enough. When you insult and harm the consumers, they tend to become more 'hostile' and less willing to freely give away their hard-earned-cash. And there's bound to be several very smart people among them, who either been burned by the cartel, or know of friends who have been attacked. This only serves their resolve to develop the next generation of technology -- technology that is even years ahead of the current batch. Sometimes I wonder who are the actual parasites?! The file-sharers or the cartel?!! The third result is that it pisses the consumers off even more. This has not been emphasized enough. When you insult and harm the consumers, they tend to become more ‘hostile’ and less willing to freely give away their hard-earned-cash. And there’s bound to be several very smart people among them, who either been burned by the cartel, or know of friends who have been attacked. This only serves their resolve to develop the next generation of technology — technology that is even years ahead of the current batch. Sometimes I wonder who are the actual parasites?! The file-sharers or the cartel?!!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6650/comment-page-1#comment-22602 Reader's Write Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:42:47 +0000 #comment-22602 Couldn't agree more with the theme of this article. By the strangest coincidence it is exactly how I learned and then became involved in p2p. My first reaction was; "What free music on line? Where do I find this phenomenon?" That was in the days of the original Napster. Up to this point, I had never heard of p2p and had never used such a service. My first use started with the now defunct AudioGalaxy; another of the RIAA's victims. Everytime the RIAA closes a site they do two things determental to their aims. One is that they advertise to everyone and anyone of the existance of such programs and usually even name them. Anyone that knows of search engines will readily find what they seek. Taking them out of the search engines doesn't help as there are forums all over the net dealing with p2p, problem solvers for the newbees, and readily recommend what they think the very best of p2p apps along with instructions in setup and use. The second result of a successful closure to a site is that when the members leave they hunt for another application that will be harder to shut down and suffer the same fate. This hunting for a better app leads to a sort of Darwinian evolution to the p2p scene with an end result of increasingly harder to find on the net and when they do, harder to come to grips with how to shut it down. Encryption of transmissions is very close to making the turn around the corner and showing up in p2p. It will make it very much harder to hunt for infringers from outside of those p2p programs. Since the RIAA saw to it that the DMCA law came into being, they are just as subject to them as their victims. Any admission of entering a p2p app for the sole purpose of hunting victims will invetiably lead to modifications of those clients and a violation of the law as a result of those modifications. The RIAA's window of oppurtunity is closing so they are making hay while they can. Couldn’t agree more with the theme of this article. By the strangest coincidence it is exactly how I learned and then became involved in p2p. My first reaction was; “What free music on line? Where do I find this phenomenon?” That was in the days of the original Napster. Up to this point, I had never heard of p2p and had never used such a service. My first use started with the now defunct AudioGalaxy; another of the RIAA’s victims.

Everytime the RIAA closes a site they do two things determental to their aims.

One is that they advertise to everyone and anyone of the existance of such programs and usually even name them. Anyone that knows of search engines will readily find what they seek. Taking them out of the search engines doesn’t help as there are forums all over the net dealing with p2p, problem solvers for the newbees, and readily recommend what they think the very best of p2p apps along with instructions in setup and use.

The second result of a successful closure to a site is that when the members leave they hunt for another application that will be harder to shut down and suffer the same fate. This hunting for a better app leads to a sort of Darwinian evolution to the p2p scene with an end result of increasingly harder to find on the net and when they do, harder to come to grips with how to shut it down. Encryption of transmissions is very close to making the turn around the corner and showing up in p2p. It will make it very much harder to hunt for infringers from outside of those p2p programs. Since the RIAA saw to it that the DMCA law came into being, they are just as subject to them as their victims. Any admission of entering a p2p app for the sole purpose of hunting victims will invetiably lead to modifications of those clients and a violation of the law as a result of those modifications. The RIAA’s window of oppurtunity is closing so they are making hay while they can.

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