heard some people got fined for downloading music from kazaa ... any truth ?

just kinda conserned, just had to re-download the program so a lil worried...

 

RIAA cannot track Canadian IPs. The only thing that we get from it is RIAA encoded MP3's that play for 5 seconds then is static for the rest. I recommend using Kazaa lite anyways, and turn off file sharing.

[ September 25, 2003, 09:28 PM: Message edited by: chaos ]

 

cool -... why can they track canadian IP`s ?

 

http://techcentralstation.com/081803C.html

it's still legal to share files in Canada.

And its Recording Industry Association of America

 

they only have jurisdiction in the USA, as far as i know. There have been discussions in canada with our version of the RIAA about policing the use of file sharing programs but no laws against it yet.

find it ironic that Kazaa is now suing the record label companies for copyright infringement.

 

I was downloading off KazaaLite last night, got an instant message from "somename@kazaalite.com". It was a message telling me not to rip music off, and gave the whole story of not hurting musicians, producers, etc. It gave a choice of replying, ignoring the message or closing it. I closed it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

 

Have people in the US been charged?

 

Several people here have been charged. A 22 year old college student was charged, and eventually settled out of court by paying the RIAA 12,000 dollars. There was an older man who hadn't even used Kazaa but his Grandkids were always over at his house using it. They took him to court because he was the internet account holder and he had to pay a settlement as well. There are at this time several hundred people on the RIAA's hit list and they have served subpoena's to interent providers to release customer's names and address's so they can file more lawsuits. They aren't messing around anymore. They say that if you share more than 600 mp3's on Kazaa, then you have a much higher chance of being put on their list! Most people that are being charged have been found sharing near or more than 1,000 copyrighted songs!

Kind of a funny story though. About two weeks ago the RIAA filed a suit against a woman claiming that they got her name and address from her internet provider and they claimed that she was sharing some 2,000 copyrighted songs. She claimed that she was not sharing any music and had never even used Kazaa. She got a lawer and the RIAA came to investigate and found that indeed she hadn't ever used Kazaa, and didn't even have it installed on her computer. And they checked her IP address and found no evidence of MP3 file transactions. So somewhere they screwed up! They immediatly withdrew their lawsuit and backed off. So now her and her lawer are sueing the RIAA for invasion of privacy! LOL!

[ September 25, 2003, 10:45 PM: Message edited by: MrEastSide ]

 

ouch...i have about 6000 songs on my laptop, and double that on my pc, but i dont share on kazaa, + i connect through a router.