Now napster and the rest are dodgy ...

The RIAA have no jurisdiction in the UK or, to my knowledge,
Europe. The BPI are getting a bit tetchy, but I can't see
them doing the same thing as the RIAA just yet.

Besides, there's always PeerGuardian.

 

You're saying US companies and organisations cant sue people in other
countries?.....

Its nice but the bastard thing soaks up silly amounts of CPU power as to
make it virtually useless.

 

For MP3's I use www.allofmp3.com, not free, but cheap, fast and works!

 

Usenet binary groups. Faster than peer to peer. Not as easy to
search, granted, but much safer

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I've had an abuse ticket from the lovely folks at Energis before,
entitled "Notice of claimed copyright infringement" and quoting an
evidence log with filename, IP address, DNS etc. all *allegedly*
relating to my having a file available for download over Kazaa lite.
Fair cheered me up it did.

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Fact: Twiglets contain powdered cheese.

 

OK so that's on a 121 basis for a single searched file of which there are
likely to be several contiguous downloads. Hardly the basis for a major
assault on users through the courts.
I understand that Freenet will not have this problem.

 

So what's the answer to a happy future for P2P then Doc?

 

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 08:34:55 -0000, "Mash"
<> bored us all completely to death with
wittery prose along the lines of:

Are there still ISP's that run proxy servers?

 

On 26 Jan 2004 22:12:38 GMT, "Abso" <> bored us all
completely to death with wittery prose along the lines of:

Scare tactic?

 

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:30:14 GMT, Catman
<> bored us all completely to death
with wittery prose along the lines of:

Eh? They may be faster, but I'd hardly call them safer. Instead of
downloading from a peer, you're downloading from a server. Much easier
to get your IP details, IMO.

 

only a concern if your being bad , then you use torrent.

 

I wish someone would tell those busy bodies in the blue uniforms to stick
it...

I'm trying to share stuff on my bike2bike network using NCPlite. If I
want to share and use other peoples bikes I shouldn't have these silly
fuckers trying to stop me.

 

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:09:05 GMT, atec77
<"atec77(getaway)"@hotmail.com> bored us all completely to death with
wittery prose along the lines of:

It depends upon how much the law is applied or changed, IMO. Even
using something like torrent may not last too long.

(BTW, snip the sigs newbie)

 

considering the packet technology being used its going to be very hard
to stop , impossible to find ip ranges with anything short of massive
skills and a lot of luck .

 

While it is technically possible to get your IP details, randomly
finding out what you are actually downloading is *much* harder (unless
things have changed over the past couple of years, and judging by the
lack of knocks upon my door, I feel it's unlikely)

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Phew

Of course, they can have a good bash at nailing those that are
posting, but most of the posters have spent a long time working out
ways of hiding.
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:17:08 +0000, Doc Gonz0 <>
bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines
of:

Ahhh, the penny has dropped. Nice.

 

Can you get 'The Bill'?

 

Someone I know has 3 series of Alias on their HDD.