After RIAA gave a fine to a kid for downloading songs, do you still dare to download songs by peer to peer?

im scared like hell of the RIAA, i have lots of music, i dont even use kazza anymore

I never downloaded many songs to begin with... I actually buy CDs. I have over 200 in my collection.

Sometimes there's a song I "gotta have" but I don't want any of the other songs on the CD, so I'll download it. The RIAA threat doesn't really change that... I doubt they'll waste their time with me.

we dont really have enough money in my house to purchase cd's, so we rip em all!!!

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People like you disappoint me.

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Originally posted by WDZ
Sometimes there's a song I "gotta have" but I don't want any of the other songs on the CD, so I'll download it. The RIAA threat doesn't really change that... I doubt they'll waste their time with me.

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Originally posted by thekid
But don't you feel afraid if the RIAA catches you downloading songs someday, and ask you to pay $12,000 or more?

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how do they check? do they go into your shared folder or have the songs with them and anyone downloading from them is caught?

ive got about 40 gigs of mp3, 20 gig of wma and about 80 gig of divx and svcd's

i cant afford to pay for this stuff, so i do the next best thing, steal it

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Originally posted by xt0rt
ive got about 40 gigs of mp3, 20 gig of wma and about 80 gig of divx and svcd's

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Is WDZ Suggesting we turn him in just for fun and video tape the results and sell them to ABC for 3.2 million dollars?

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Originally posted by wj
Is WDZ Suggesting we turn him in just for fun and video tape the results and sell them to ABC for 3.2 million dollars?

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well.... i never see the point in spending £15.99 on an album, when i can get the one song i actually want, for free cos not all good songs are buyable, or releasd as singles.... mmmm.... as for the ones where you pay, you wont get the range of obsure music as ya do on something like kazaa....

i dont have any problem with stealing, music from artists, its not my problem the RIAA are stupid and dont offer artists insurance

you will NEVER get sued for downloading music. its not very traceable :Refuck: but you WILLL get sued for sharing copyrighted music. notice the diffference

ill download it and if i like it ill buy the album........simple

I think for the amount I download match by buying. I buy all ranges as well, singles, album and compilations..

personally, i just buy cd's that i have heard on kerrang, mtv, mtv2 or one of my m8s have or sumit, i used to download them, but that was like april last year people moan bout them getting fined, but its there own fault, copyright laws, its stupid I just download videos off winmx (don't download it download Kazaa Lite) its crap, only good for videos, but some of the videos have spyware encrypted in them muahahahahaha the latest 4 day long download did

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Originally posted by kangie
well.... i never see the point in spending £15.99 on an album, when i can get the one song i actually want, for free

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I don't download much music, about a song per month, if there's one I really like. I don't download entire cds, and I don't really buy entire cds either. I've got just a couple, which I bought, but that's about it.

And by the way, I don't know the current exchange rates, but I'd say £15.99 is about $25.00.

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Originally posted by bach_m
you will NEVER get sued for downloading music. its not very traceable but you WILLL get sued for sharing copyrighted music. notice the diffference

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Originally posted by WDZ
If I was downloading hundreds of songs, sure.

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Bach_m is right. You can't get done for downloading, but you can for uploading. Just because of the nature of it. There's no real line between what's punishable and what isn't, I'd say downloading 100 songs all at once was punishable, but downloading one a day probably isn't.

Edit: oh, I didn't answer. People I know normally send me songs, and that's probably equally illegal, but you can't get done for it. Who honestly has never downloaded a song in their life? Then think about how full the prisons would be... it's not gonna happen.

Edit 2: voting, because the percentages are horrible, out of 9 votes.

crap i voted on wrong one

Its just like recording off the TV or the radio. That's Illegal but who cares. They sell the videos and they've bin working to get the new DVD player that can record. But the police cudn't care less. there's more important stuff 2 deal wiv. U cnt dl the quality ov a CD. so but em.
And 1 for Tochjo. 1€ = (about) £0.70

GiantSpider, that's what worries the industry so much, you CAN download the quality of a CD, and better. And Tochjo was asking about dollars, I think.

but there alot of infected files out on the fasttrack network now. possibly more than the god files.

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Originally posted by billywoods1
GiantSpider, that's what worries the industry so much, you CAN download the quality of a CD, and better. And Tochjo was asking about dollars, I think.

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I still downloading music and I will continue with it.

btw, for people who uses p2p networks: download PeerGuardian! (search google, first hit) It's a great program that stops "unwanted" IPs.

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Originally posted by Tochjo
I don't download much music, about a song per month, if there's one I really like. I don't download entire cds, and I don't really buy entire cds either. I've got just a couple, which I bought, but that's about it.

And by the way, I don't know the current exchange rates, but I'd say £15.99 is about $25.00.

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Lately most of the popular songs i download are broken anyway. with so many bad files under popular songs name it makes me think WTF is the point, just go buy it.

Over the last 100 years we’ve been able to record music…and from those few radio stations came pirate ones that broadcasted other types of music and before you know it there’s 100’s of stations each playing different types of music…Just like people were afraid people would tape music off the radio the same people are worried about file-sharing, don’t they realise if you’re a fan you’ll buy the records…the P2P situation is just a mirror on the same radio taping situation of the 70’s

It has been proven that pop/rock sales are now down because of the P2P software. However Trance music sales have increased dramatically. I suppose it has it good and bad sides like everything.

me scared ? nope .. not one bit ... i'm new to it ... so .. i dont have that many ... but i think i'm legal .... seesh i hope i am .. haha .. why do i doubt it tho ?
hmmm ....

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Originally posted by GoThiCpRiNcEsS
me scared ? nope .. not one bit ... i'm new to it ... so .. i dont have that many ... but i think i'm legal .... seesh i hope i am .. haha .. why do i doubt it tho ?
hmmm ....

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Well hey, if your caught and get fined $12,000 (even though I live in Canada, and that's only in the US) Then you'll get on those new Pepsi Commercials

i do download songs off Fasttrack and Gnutella, but i can honestly say i don't do it illegally.

i LOVE CANADA!!!!!!!!

we have laws that say were allowed. and supreme court rulings

Hahaha...
Im form canada too and they have no rights to look in there, so i keep on downloading music...

But i still prefer buying good CDs legally

urr! wat the heck is this RIAAA??????

http://www.riaa.com/

They're against the use of P2P music sharing.

i can undastand them givin u a fine if u rippin cds n sellin them but if u using the songs personally then wots da problem, ive bin using kazaa and bearshare 4 ages n im gonna continue 2 do so 2 n so will ma m8s

if someone takes a book, photocopies all the pages, and makes loads of exact replicas, then gives them away for free, understandably the author is going to get pretty annoyed.

Put that analogy on a song, and you can see why record companies and artists are getting pissed off. The only way to stop people from doing it, is by scaring them, or making the network incredibly slow, and flooding the network with fake copies of the song, hopefuly it will make KaZaA and such like so hard to use, people will give up.

If you want to download music, then do it, but dont complain when you get a letter from the record compaines fining you.

You can leagaly download music from many companies like Apple iTunes and dotmusic.

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Originally posted by kangie
well.... i never see the point in spending £15.99 on an album, when i can get the one song i actually want, for free cos not all good songs are buyable, or releasd as singles.... mmmm.... as for the ones where you pay, you wont get the range of obsure music as ya do on something like kazaa....

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Originally posted by Johnny_Mac
It has been proven that pop/rock sales are now down because of the P2P software. However Trance music sales have increased dramatically. I suppose it has it good and bad sides like everything.

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yeah but theres no fun in doing it that way...theres no danger, no excitement lol and the more ppl tell us to stop doin it then the more they gonna do it jus 2 piss ppl off

exaxctly y pay £15 or $15 4 an album wen u only want 1 song??? its stupid wen u fink bout it

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Originally posted by dovey_87
yeah but theres no fun in doing it that way...theres no danger, no excitement lol and the more ppl tell us to stop doin it then the more they gonna do it jus 2 piss ppl off

exaxctly y pay £15 or $15 4 an album wen u only want 1 song??? its stupid wen u fink bout it

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so ur tellin me that u neva dwnload music, u neva record vids off ov mtv, u neva record off the radio and u neva record songs from CD to tape.

it dnt mata how u do it, its all copyright and they cnt put a stop to it so bother trying

ummm i don't use kazaa  (lieing) but recording mtv is just lame i don't listen to the radio and its called a cd rewriter well in my case dvd rewriter

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Originally posted by dovey_87
its all copyright

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u havent gote this RIAAA thingy here.

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Originally posted by InsaneXterminator
u havent gote this RIAAA thingy here.

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maybe we would by the cd's if it wasnt so freaking expensive, im not gona spend $30.00(asutralian) on every singer i like! i have no money as it is

that's exactly my point azn angel, if music didn't cost as much, I would be able to buy it legally more often.

If you can afford a computer and the internet connection to be a regular here you can afford a few cds   The latter are also timeless.

My problem isn't the money, but the fact that I simply prefer mp3s... cds are such a faff to go out and buy, and like other people have said, i like to try out stuff before I pay for it too.  I think it's downright rude and selfish to steal music on that basis though, so I'm gonna wait until itunes or napster comes out in the uk

I can mostly find a person I know who has a cd I want anyway, and unless they put little tracker things that bleep there should be no problem lol. I don't think anyone should be admitting anything. I bet so many companies check on forums

i prefer mp3s too 4 da simple fact i have an mp3 player lol and not a portable cd player

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Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
If you can afford a computer and the internet connection to be a regular here you can afford a few cds   The latter are also timeless.

My problem isn't the money, but the fact that I simply prefer mp3s... cds are such a faff to go out and buy, and like other people have said, i like to try out stuff before I pay for it too.  I think it's downright rude and selfish to steal music on that basis though, so I'm gonna wait until itunes or napster comes out in the uk

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well if u get all ur money from ur rents, just ask them to buy it for u, they can put limits on iTunes so u cant over spend

Well, people who download music and sell it are being illegal, but the people who download music to listen to on their own computer aren't.

every one downloads songs to some extent, it's just sharing and if someone can find something illegal in that...

c'mon guys, support your fav artists/bands

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Music industry files more suits
RIAA going after people using university computer systems to download music

The recording industry filed lawsuits Tuesday against 89 people suspected of illegally sharing songs using the computer networks of 21 major universities, including Stanford University and UC Berkeley.

The Recording Industry Association of America filed 532 new lawsuits in the trade group's battle against individuals who share songs for free using programs like Kazaa. The new round of suits includes 13 people identified as John Doe defendants in three lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

In the latest round, the group is seeking the names of 89 individuals at universities around the country, including UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cal State Northridge and the University of Southern California. Other campuses include the University of Arizona and Loyola Marymount, Drexel, Georgetown, Vanderbilt and Villanova universities.

For complete news, go to http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c...04/03/24/MUSIC.TMP

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