Question about Kazaa

[tommy1223]

Here's my questions:

(1) are they just sueing people for DLing music or just anything in general?

cuz i want to search up some cool vids they got on there but i dunno if they are also sueing people for that too or not?


(2) will insurance rates go up if i sell my car that i just bought 3 months ago and get another car?
like will the rates go up more the more often u change vehicles?

Someone help? Anybody?

Thanks

T.L.

[Mr_John]

Originally posted by tommy1223
Here's my questions:

(1) are they just sueing people for DLing music or just anything in general?

cuz i want to search up some cool vids they got on there but i dunno if they are also sueing people for that too or not?

sueing for anything in general but mostly music.
I'm not sure if they are sueing people in Canada yet but so far there's been over 1,000 sued kids as young as 19.
I read on cnn.com (yes i read stuff from there to keep updated on my current events) that a 22 year old student from Stanford (I forget the school but its a really high respected university), the student was sued for a bunch of cash but only had $12,000 in the bank, so the lawyers doing all the sueings took the $12,000 and the student agreed to pay another $15,000.
He set up a website so that people can make donations to help him pay it off, and so far he's made $5,000 only.
(not sure if i made any sense but its 4:25 am so please forgive me. hahaha)

I heard on the radio today that the #1 song they use to catch people illegally downloading is busta rhymes - forget what song its called.

[AquamosH]

It looks as though they are suing the ppl providing music to be downloaded. On Kazaa, you can choose not to share your stuff w/ others.
Here's a link you might find useful:
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,59392,00.html

[kaput]

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[AquamosH]

Originally posted by kaput
WTF is with all the swooshes and beeps in the songs now?? RIAA messing them up and flooding the downloads??

Either that or new songs are encoded so they mess up (like when you try to tape a dvd onto video, and the picture is screwy)

I decided a while back not to d/l anymore, getting too risky.

[Ben]

fuk em.

[5.9 R/T]

They can only get you if your sharing songs. And they arn't going to go after you for sharing a small number of songs since it wouldn't be worth their time.

[SI-vic]

Originally posted by 5.9 R/T
They can only get you if your sharing songs. And they arn't going to go after you for sharing a small number of songs since it wouldn't be worth their time.

Not sure if its true, but I heard about a story when a guy had 1 song on his computer and got caught and sued.
Sounds fake just to scare people though, not sure

[Strider]

they target people with certain songs...

it doesn't matter how many songs you have, just if you have the song they're targetting at that particular time, and they happen to choose you, they'll sue you

it's more of a scare tactic than anything... the few people that they sue represent a very small percentage of people file share

[tommy1223]

ya, so it's just songs right?

[Ben]

Originally posted by tommy1223
ya, so it's just songs right?

Yes, your ginormous Pornography collection appears to be safe for now.

[rage2]

Originally posted by Ben
Yes, your ginormous Pornography collection appears to be safe for now.

*phew*!

[Dope Dealer]

Bah, I wouldn't worry about them....

We're in Canada anyways, we're immune, for now

[Zephyr]

this is so gay.... isps here have to give out info in the states. Verison, Charter, Aldelphia, and others are forced to give out info, but all of the isps are appealing in court saying its against privacy regulations. i already moved my mp3s to a private locked folder and used a separate folder as the "sharing folder" and i moved every mp3 finished to the private folder...

well im using winmx anyway..i tend to migrate after attention is brought on a certain p2p..

[/////AMG]

does this go for Kazaa Lite aswell?

[AquamosH]

Originally posted by Zephyr
this is so gay.... isps here have to give out info in the states. Verison, Charter, Aldelphia, and others are forced to give out info, but all of the isps are appealing in court saying its against privacy regulations.

Didn't the U.S. government implement some sort of program that snoops into everyone's surfing activities, looking for potential terrorists? If so, this would be way beyond privacy regulations IMO. Not to mention the false accusations that could follow; for example, somebody could be doing research on the net for a paper on terrorism or something, then they could get unwanted attention from the NSA.

Originally posted by Porsche_944
does this go for Kazaa Lite aswell?

Same company/program, same purpose, so I imagine so.

[atomic]

Originally posted by AquamosH


Didn't the U.S. government implement some sort of program that snoops into everyone's surfing activities, looking for potential terrorists? If so, this would be way beyond privacy regulations IMO. Not to mention the false accusations that could follow; for example, somebody could be doing research on the net for a paper on terrorism or something, then they could get unwanted attention from the NSA.



Same company/program, same purpose, so I imagine so.

haha no.
there a few honey pots and nets . but mostly ids on large traffic routers . our Extractor software sends your data to our servers via a secure encryped transfer . and we trend for geographical sources of hacks/attempts and virus origins, etc . but this data is used for a lot of tracking by government agencies . the best part about it is, the free version u can use . the licensed version is really complex and we see some neat data sometimes!

but no , this is one of hte biggest "conspiracy" type worries . but it's wicked .

[AquamosH]

ic,
I read this in Wired; must have misunderstood the article

[rage2]

Originally posted by AquamosH
Didn't the U.S. government implement some sort of program that snoops into everyone's surfing activities, looking for potential terrorists? If so, this would be way beyond privacy regulations IMO. Not to mention the false accusations that could follow; for example, somebody could be doing research on the net for a paper on terrorism or something, then they could get unwanted attention from the NSA.

That would be the Echelon system, which "doesn't exist".

The one that's in use right now is Carnivore, see how it works here :

http://www.howstuffworks.com/carnivore.htm

Basically a packet sniffer for one guy, and mostly deals with email traffic.

[atomic]

haha

seroius ppl . stop spreading rumours of fancy tools reading private email . there is a reason our threat management system was created .

and there are no "mp3" download monitors on firewalls, etc ..

protect yourself by not sharing mp3's publically :P