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EchosNobodyHears
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im moving back into school today and at my school they can catch you if your downloading music off of programs like limewire or torrents sites. but there are links on here for concerts from mega upload. does anyone know if that is illegal or is it fine to use that? im not sure if the school will stop me but if it is illegal i know they will. thanx
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They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
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My understanding is that it is "legal" to trade PJ boots (provided they are not boots the band is currently offering for sale) as per PJ's policies...but I am not sure your school will care to take this into consideration.
using rapidshare and megaupload is generally safe in that respect, but of course still morally suspect.
I second what he said!!
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So I bidded my time until the last few weeks of school. that last few days I downloaded for hours and hours, figuring they wouldnt do anything to me!
I bet right.
As far as I know, with colleges and dorms I dont know of any programs and torrent sites that arent monitored
The RIAA's private investigators can (illegally in several states) jump in with a seed (which P2P software uses to see who has a "piece") and act like any other computer, so they can see your information, login (if on limewire), and connect that information to e-mail addresses, etc., all the way back to your service provider.
DDL sites are direct - your computer to a private server, downloading a coded file. The RIAA can't "see" you downloading (one reason they've tried to have these sites shut down). The site administrators would have a hard time tracing a single download, because most of these sites host millions of files on thousands of servers, and there are tens of thousands of downloaders each second. You're safe on megaupload or rapidshare, as long as your ISP doesn't block them (because of bandwidth issues).
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Is basically a search engine of megaupload and rapidshare
If you find that those two are safe to use, then this should come in handy.
That's a very intelligent description of how these things work. Thanks from those of us who are generally in the dark.
But, I have a question. If an illegal file is put onto a site like megaupload or rapidshare, is it not possible for the RIAA -- once they have found a file to be illegal -- to trace both the computer that uploaded the file and all that downloaded it? I mean, wouldn't your IP address be traceable as long as you were on the site and had downloaded something from it?
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Me I just happen to live near some hotels with free broadband that I leech into.
No. Under the DMCA, all they can do is issue a takedown notice - and Megaupload (MU) or Rapidshare (RS) will delete the file. It would place an impossible burden on those sites to ask them to sift through logfiles to match IP (more on that below) to downloaded file, compile a list that makes sense, and submit it to the RIAA. Rapidshare stores "several petabytes ... and transfers hundreds of gigabytes simultaneously" -link- (a petabyte is one million gigabytes) - literally, millions of files (consider that most MP3 albums run about 80 MB or so), with millions of downloaders at a time.
RE: IP addresses - with P2P, you're directly connected to other computers. With MU or RS, you're using standard http. It would be impossible to trace who downloaded the file because they can do so from behind a proxy - masking their IP addresses... same for anonymous uploaders. As for those with accounts, most of the people who have accounts which identify a name or e-mail address are content owners who store files for download (a lot of smaller shareware companies use "Direct" DDL accounts, which have two benefits - they allow users to download files without having to visit MU or RS -- AND the company doesn't have to pay huge bandwidth costs to its ISP). Others use dummy names & e-mail addresses.
Anyway, until the RIAA goes back in time to the 70's and rewrites most of the protocols running the web, DDL is the safe way to download files that they might piss and moan about.
Signed, with love, a Ph.D. candidate in public policy & digital media (just so you know I'm not blowing smoke)
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Once again, a very intelligent response. Thank you.
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There are some impressive show repositories (HUNDREDS of shows, dating back to 1990-91) online that offer DDL retrieval, though, if you know how to use Google or ask people who are into that sort of thing.
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has quite a bit of pearl jam too. some cool rehearsal stuff.
I'm sure it's quite illegal, but at the same time it's not p2p or a torrent, much harder to track.
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Do that stuff from your PC at home.