On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Joe Apuzzo wrote: > > Considering the scope of this issue; do you really think everyone is > > going to get caught? > > Yup, trading music online is now just as bad as selling crack cocaine, > or robbing a bank ( thanks to the RIAA ) > The current body of laws and current court cases back this up. If you > TRADE music ONLINE your committing a crime, period end of discussion.
No, that's an overgeneralization. There's freely distributable music out there. And saying "copyrighted music" to try to distinguish what is freely distributable or not doesn't actually distinguish anything, because even things that are freely distributable are copyrighted -- both CC works and the GPL work through copyright. Yes, that means your shiny Knoppix CD or DVD is copyrighted, yet legally sharable. And apparently the main way in which the organizations have been figuring out who to go after is by looking at the list of IP addresses for the tracker for a particular torrent, and at least some of the trackers take their information from the BitTorrent client, and some of those allow for intentionally misreporting your IP address. This very much means that your IP address can be implicated without ever running a BitTorrent client. This was shown by researchers who were able to receive complaints for IP addresses that were for printers or routers on their network, none of which were running a BitTorrent client. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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