Legal Actions!!!

[QUIET_ORPHAN]

ok... whats going on...
[quote]File-swapping lawsuits: Are you next?

By John Borland
CNET News.com
September 8, 2003, 5:10 PM PT

The Recording Industry Association of America sued 261 alleged file swappers Monday, launching a legal campaign against ordinary Internet users that could ultimately result in thousands of additional lawsuits.
But are you at risk?

If you or a family member have used Kazaa or any other file-swapping application recently and have left your computer open to the Net, the answer is possibly--although the odds of being singled out among an estimated 60 million people using peer-to-peer software remain small. If you've kept thousands of songs in the file you're sharing with other file swappers, then the odds are a little better, though still slim.

Here's a quick look at how the RIAA has done its investigations and what kind of information it has used to find people and file Monday's lawsuits.

Step one: Finding file-traders isn't hard. Anybody who opens a shared folder on Kazaa, Morpheus or any other file-swapping network is susceptible to potentially prying eyes.

In the most recent wave of investigations, the RIAA has used automated tools that look for a relatively short list of files. When it finds a person sharing one or more of those files, it downloads all or many of them for verification purposes. A complete list of these target files is not available, but a sampling of files cited in the early lawsuits includes the following artists and songs:

[ozzy72]

Apparently yes. There is a good thread on this in General Discussion

Ozzy

[Craig.]

what ozzy said,:)
they themselves have said turn off the sharing option from the tools menu, or whereever it is, and you should be fine, as most of their evidence is based on downloading the files from your computer, if they cant do that no evidence.

[Tequila Sunrise]

I don't get it, if noone shares then the whole system falls apart dosn't it?

[Craig.]

thats what the RIAA are hoping to happen with the threat of lawsuits, they cant stop kazza and other P2P networks from being online, so they scare people into stopping the sharing option and it makes it easier to catch those responsible.

[QUIET_ORPHAN]

thank you all!