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1. Comment - RIAA Tries to Combat P2P Networks

   (Sep 23, 2005 - 12:00 PM)

   I believe this whole thing with the RIAA is stupid... If they really cared enough to stop piracy they would stand up change laws make new laws and such expanding their search for illegal copyrighted material.
   
   Hey look at IRC for instance; yes many IRC networks like DALnet has frowned upon dedicated server channels for "leeching" of warez, movies and music. The concequences are an AKILL nickname getting suspened and channel forcefully dropped but file sharing still goes on privately on DALnet and they really have no way to stop such a task cause the files being transferred are directly to the user not through the IRC server... All IRC networks like DALnet can do is watch for proof of file sharing and try to stop it...
   
   As I see it is not the individual song downloading that is a problem. Is where the entire album gets downloaded for free but as I keep saying, completely stopping the illegal downloading of music (or movies and warez) is almost impossible. There will always be people out there making the software that takes out the encoding of CDs to make them burnable and then copy them to a private FTP server or HTTP server then not get touched. if 1,000 or so people go in there and use the service wham RIAA steps in and says "look we found illegal file sharing"
   
   Why dont RIAA go after the single user? if you stop the single user (not the company) you may get somewhere faster.
   
   PsychoSquirrel