No More Amnesty from the RIAA!

[Jason]

It's not as if you had any to begin with. But now the RIAA has officially retracted its amnesty program following a lawsuit. If your using a P2P file sharing program and your collecting Mp3's you can be sure the RIAA will come looking for you with a trail of lawyers following behind.

I suggest you take your HD and throw it in the microwave on high for 2 minutes. (Give or take 30 seconds) That should effectively wipe out your HD, and your microwave for that matter. A small amount of C4 at the heart of your system will spread the data over three football fields, making evidence collection very difficult.

Seriously folks, go pay for songs. I do. . .

Im so confused on how this is a greater threat to us now, I still ahve songs, do I really have to delete them?

[Jason]

I would have deleted them a while ago. Pirating songs leaves yourself open to a lawsuit. Now is the time however to delete them, at least before you could get amnesty of some sort.

I have maybe 20 songs, I think they have some less innocent people to attack first, dont you?

[Jason425]

as far as I am concerned, don't share and they can't/won't go after you..

there is actually a lot more leniency written into the law than the RIAA would have you believe, given that the courts are supposed to make decisions based on precedent and make extensive use of jurisprudence. While things like DMCA might change that to some extent, they do not on face overturn well-established fair use rights, though not well-extended to digital medium (assuming that digital media should be treated differently).

[Jason]

English. . . Do you Speak it?

Wanna lay that down for me again my man. I see them lips movin but it aint english comin out.

[StinkyMojo]

Basically, I own most of the cds that I have the songs for. They are on a different hard drive than my P2P stuff is on. If they come after me, then I can sue because of a breach of privacy, and I'll easily win because my stuff isn't shared, and they would have to hack my computer which is illegial.

[Dragon]

yeah i was gonna say - the only way they could find out you had anything would be to A. look at your HDs or B. Monitor your internet usage and interpret the information. theoritically its illegal for them to find out whats youve got due to "invasion of privacy" (word gnogtr) and either way - i bet if youve got a decent trace program on your comp, you could figure out what ports you use and block all other access, right?