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Register or sign in to use it. Sign In Register Preferences. More Lawsuits Against Google To Protect The Children. Fri, May 5th am — Mike Masnick. If you liked this post, you may also be interested in Kevin Mesiab , 5 May am.

Get real. J , 5 May am. Does this mean I can sue the entertainment industry since they are providing the music that people are pirating? Stoneman , 5 May am. PaulM , 5 May am. No, 'cos they might not have any money - so you sue McD's. Anonymous Coward , 5 May am. Blame anyone and everyone for stuff thats not their fault - brilliant idea. Grumpy Old Man , 5 May am. We won't have to blame them, with the number of Canadian Artist that are leaving the RIAA, I am sure they are the next target of their attack dog lawyers.

Mike , 5 May am. Instead of wasting time going after all of the companies behind the file sharing programs and sites, why don't they just sue Microsoft for providing a platform that allows these programs to run?

If we just got rid of computers altogether, this piracy problem could easily be alleviated. There is no such thing as good technology since all of it can be used for illegal purposes. We need to go back to living in caves. Lolz limewire is a multiplatform p2p as well as debatebly because alot of other uses Torrents, shit i can actually thnk of very few JUST windows p2p networks, i know its everyones internet wet dream to sue bill gates until hes wearing rags then maybe zip down your fly and piss on him, but before you can do that you need to have a legitimate case, and you have utterly nothing with your arguement.

Rupert Kramer , 5 May am. Brandon , 5 May am. This is more like if you photo copied a piece of art and Snail Mailed it to someone. Could the original artist sue the United States Postal Service for providing the conduit?

David , 5 May am. Great Analogy. You can also take your laptop and burn cds. Instead of creating a buzz for "original" cds loaded with extras that cannot be obtain via filesharing, RIAA is biting the hand that feeds it. Mike Mixer , 5 May pm. I don't think the analogy works with a photocopy.

The real allure of digital downloads of music or anything else is the your copy is fundamentally exact in all pespects to the original.

This is of course the root of all of the recording industries holy war. Never in history has the means to make high quality reproductions that are identical to the original in every way been so cheap and available. I remember seeing record stores being closed because they were selling copies of hit records made by pirates the costed 4 bucks a pop. While I agree from a moral stand point, from a legal one your argument is too hard to defend.

We would have to say;"The post office can be fascilitators of illegal material so long as that material falls under a quantifyable quality". We would then have to also assert that if the reproduction quality of the peer-to-peer sharing was not high quality when converting a file, you obviously can use various file sizes , then it would then be acceptable. We would have to draw a correlation between, say, the amount of pixels in a photocopy to the file size of the wma, mp3, what have you.

Jo Boy , 6 May am. Hmmm might even turn out as better quality! When the technology becomes available, the dinosaur industries must adapt and change their buisness model like Mike has been trying to tell you anti-PTP peeps.

The recording industry has created a biz model over the past years that has basically brainwashed people with the idealogy that because you've made a great song you deserve millions for it! Artists historically have starved, earning the big bucks is a relatively new phenomenon on the grand scale of art and human history! Did Michelangelo make millions off of David? And yet that piece of art has made more people happy that "Achy Breaky Heart" ever will, so why does Billy Ray Cyrus deserve to live in a mansion when Michelangelo did not?

This is the great lie of the music industry and a part of what helps it to self perpetuate. The biz model is adjusting to where it historically should be. I have not used a PTP program since Napster was shut down, but am thinking about getting one ever since the Sony Music root kit fiasco.

I recently purchased a Coldplay CD that won't play on my computer without installing something?!? So the obvious thing is to download some mp3's of the tracks as I have legitimatley paid for their use but am restricted from listening to them on my computer? Oddly enough this is why I did not go to the Coldplay concert.

I hated the fact that they did this to me. Wake up musicians you are only shooting yourselves in the foot! Dylan , 5 May am. I think we should all do something about it, iv had enough of the rants. We need to stand up and say something, riot, protest, i dont care, just do something as a way of telling the RIAA to shut the he77 up. I really dont think that the piracy was takeing much money away from the actors and singers, I mean, even before they started to crack down on the piracy the actors and singers where earining millions of dollars a year, and for what?

Something that they do well, something they have an aptitude for. The RIAA isnt sueing because piracy is costing them money, they are sueing because they are greedy. Its just sick, if I i had the musical talant to create a few songs and then gain so much money from it that i can afford large houses and fast cars I would just save all the money and live in a middle class suburb for the rest of my life without working and not care if someone pirated my music.

They arnt really looseing money, they are just greedy, and they will do anything to earn more. There is something we can do--stop buying music from companies that are part of the RIAA. That's all we can do--vote with our wallets. If everyone did that, the problem would be resolved in a hurry. However, since very few people seem able to deny themselves anything, even in pursuit of a worthy goal, I'm afraid the future looks very bleak.

Wolfger , 5 May am. In an effort to keep all the profits for themselves, the RIAA is now suing successful artists for making songs so good that people are willing to break the law to obtain them. Many artists, however, are not earning enough to pay the settlements the RIAA is demanding, and are declaring bankruptcy.

Antimatter , 5 May am. If they keep shutting down network and websites like this, they won't have any customers to sue! How will they make money then? Axe , 5 May am. Although there are more than enough Anti-RIAA groups, what I haven't seen is anyone seriously take it to the lawmakers. Money buys everything in this country. If there was an effective organisation with enough money to bribe the lawmakers than even the RIAA would buckle under. Until then we'll just have to keep taking it on the chin.

Is there any P2P network that hasn't been sued? I remember something recently on BitTorrent. Anybody know? Screw the major label's go support your local vinyl record store!!! Get good music, that you haven't heard times in the past week. Also couldn't we go back to the old days The the IRAA could go after the radio stations and shut them down too. Yes go after Radio Stations They Share music After searching for an online music resource I downloaded Bearshare.

I downloaded this "Free" program only to find that my computer took a beating. I un-installed the program and still found traces of Bearshare in many different locations on those computers.

This program also made different web browsers a Bearshare homepage of which I could not get rid of. I would recommend that anyone with the same issues read their license agreement.

Please contact me if you are interested in joining my lawsuit with Bearshare as they have violated many aspects of their own agreement with their consumers - not to mention destroyed two of my own computers. Once downloaded this program is nearly impossible to expel from your computer. Hopefully I have stopped you from even thinking about a Bearshare download. FYI: I have had Bearshare "stupidly" on two computers. I'm writing this on my third without Bearshare and this computer works great.

I purchased quite a few music downloads from Bearshare at. Lately I have noticed that some of them won't play anymore and when I called them, they said they have the right cancel them if the artist changes the license rules. The funny thing about that is that if I chose to pay the 9. Imagine buying something and paying for it only to have it removed from your home 2 years later because the manufacturer changed their mind and doesn't want you to have it!

The government needs to crack down on these scam artists. I paid for and successfully downloaded 15 songs from Bearshare's website. I could play the music on my WMP 9, but was not able to burn them or sync them to my mp3 player. It also shows a list of what were recently downloaded by other users. Furthermore, you can play the video of the music on the list while on the page.

If you prefer using a music downloader with more features on your computer, there are also other alternatives that you can choose from. While they all let you save music to your computer, these applications still have their own pros and cons. One of the top programs like Bearshare available in the market today is Streaming Audio Recorder.

This is an application that can be used for downloading, recording, editing and converting music. Similar to Bearshare, it lets you search and download music by entering a keyword. Other features they have in common are their built-in player and CD Ripping function.

It lets you record any music streamed on your browser, which can definitely enlarge the range of music you could save to computer. It supports a wide selection of audio and video format for conversion. How can i get rid of this program once and for all? Please don't say System Restore--I don't do a very good job of creating access points on a regular basis and I certainly do not to take my computer a month back to before i installed the program.

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