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MiniMeDanny
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this gets pretty scary - i think ima hold off limewire and stuff for a while now

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/09/17/face_music_part1/
- listen to the mp3

all the cases on there were w/ ppl who were in fact innocent but what would happen if you were caught legitimately illegally downloading music - especially w/ the industry charging up to $750 per song
Sep 18 2007 11:59PM
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BigJew
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And that's why I love living in Canada.
Sep 19 2007 12:08AM
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Tolz
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yeah, i've been holding off for quite a while now on the limewire...
Sep 19 2007 12:25AM
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unchyll
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lol when i was like 14 i got a letter in the mail saying that they tracked the movie Billy Madison from my computer and it was illegaly downloaded, they threatend me with a 1500 dollar fine and they deleted it from my computer without coming into my house or anything, kinda weird but thats why you turn sharing off
Sep 19 2007 2:31PM
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2+2=5
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they cant do shit to canadians
Sep 19 2007 5:39PM
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FartBoy05
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yeah def sharing off. but ill keep dling shit. if i like an artist i will go out and buy their cd or go to a show.
Sep 19 2007 6:09PM
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bobs
Posts: 4801 - Karma: 869
i don't use limewire....... i've been using albumbase.com, mp3realm.org, and my schools dc++ network
Sep 19 2007 6:59PM
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UNREAL
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I love canada so much....
Sep 19 2007 7:26PM
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UNREAL
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But wholy shit thats sketch
Sep 19 2007 7:33PM
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SkiMN
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Great, as my limewire is dling at about 250 kb/s....
Sep 19 2007 7:33PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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yay canadaaaaa
Sep 19 2007 8:49PM
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MLB
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lol its against the constitution in canada....or thats what a friend told me. I could be wrong.
Sep 19 2007 9:18PM
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MiniMeDanny
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ya i got screwed for downloading a photoshop torrent last summer when i was at stanford and they caught me since i was on their network - i got an email from cisco telling me to delete the files or i could get charged up to a hundred thousand dollars, scary shit - i just deleted the file tho and so far things have gone fine
Sep 19 2007 9:32PM
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BigJew
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Nah, there was a big court battle thing in Canada and the judge ruled that it was legal to download, but not to share.
Sep 19 2007 11:04PM
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dave44
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Yeah. Still, I don't use Limewire and stuff anymore, I use Albumbase and Albumhunt. The only time I use a P2P is when there's only one good song, and I know that the rest of that artist's album is complete bull


I love Canada.
Sep 20 2007 3:42AM
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SkierX
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The music industry needs to realize that album sales are dead, and will never be revived. It is no longer the money-making cash-cow it once was.

Bands I am real fans of I still support by going to shows, and buying their albums, but I am not dropping $15 for a band with a few good songs and that's it.
Sep 20 2007 9:31AM
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jaylib
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that sucks. alot. i download a hella lot of torrents/limewire music
Sep 20 2007 3:19PM
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Klick_2_klaim
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word.
shit i even go buy cd's sometimes. But only after ive gotten the album and listened to it.
Sep 20 2007 3:25PM
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dave44
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Yeah.
Sep 20 2007 3:26PM
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Klick_2_klaim
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its the funniest thing too. Cause most artists dont realize that they make little money from album sales. With the exceptions of the hugest ones.
Actually what is funny is that Trent Reznor or what ever the fuck that hacks name is, tells everyone in Australia to steal music to drive album prices down, yet his main audience is in the states... where he wouldn't dare to even have a nightmare about saying that. WHY? because he would get sued by the riaa.
one day Canadians will have to worry about illegal downloading, so turn off your sharing... or feel the wrath!

or do the smart thing and use torrents which are too hard to track.
Sep 20 2007 3:56PM
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Jwenz
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I have not downloaded off limewire in quite some time, my friend gets all the music and i get from him
Sep 20 2007 4:01PM
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steezyjibber
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how do you turn sharing off
Sep 20 2007 5:16PM
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2+2=5
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close the program or just dont put shit in your sharing folder
Sep 20 2007 5:25PM
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MiniMeDanny
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go to the preference pane
Sep 20 2007 5:33PM
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MiniMeDanny
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ya i kno its a pretty scary brodcast - especially how the music industry kept pressing charges even once they first found out it wasn't her who'd downloaded the music, just imagine going through all of this when you actually had downloaded the files yourself
Sep 20 2007 8:17PM
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sack
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phew...

I share, download, even buy cds sometimes
Sep 20 2007 8:47PM
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oiECSoi
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i just dont download. i have my freinds who have limewire and al lthat shti download me stuff and burn me a cd, or ill burn thier cds. or ill go to a show and buy a cd there.
Sep 22 2007 11:46PM
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TheButterHashira
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sharing is caring guys
Sep 22 2007 11:47PM
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Itsbackfliptime
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Columbia University - 1,198
University of Pennsylvania - 934
Boston University - 891
University of California at Los Angeles - 889
Purdue University - 873
Vanderbilt University - 860
Duke University - 813
Rochester Institute of Technology - 792
University of Massachusetts - 765
University of Michigan - 740

Those are the 10 universities that have gotten the most piracy notices from the MPAA (movies). I'm proud to say that 2 of the 740 at the University of Michigan were thanks to me. Both times I was just told to delete the file. Maybe I did, maybe I didn't.

I haven't downloaded music illegally in a while though. The RIAA is nuts.
Sep 23 2007 1:55AM
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MiniMeDanny
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still why bother downloading movies on the university network - just use a different internet connection from somewhere nearby, i gues if you're caught downloading movies or apps they'll simply tell to delete the files and warn that they could charge you, but for music rather than asking you to delete the music - the riaa simply goes and sues you for rideiculous sums of money
Sep 23 2007 2:03PM
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bitchassphatz
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i wonder if it's illegal to download rar files with music in it. i would be so screwed if i had to pay $750 for the 52,500 songs i have.....$39,375,000 hahaha good luck getting that from me RIAA. I have $100 to my name.
Sep 23 2007 7:26PM
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cofreeskier
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Yeah...hopefully not...I would be soooo fucked its not even funny.
Sep 23 2007 7:43PM
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t-roy
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especially since most of the money from cd sales goes to the record labels
Sep 23 2007 9:16PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Time to move to torrents. No matter how much they try, music is out on the internet and will continue to be traded freely. The RIAA just cannot come to terms with the fact its not needed in this day and age.
Sep 25 2007 2:16AM
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Mat.
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how come us canadians are safe from all this bullshit?
thank god.. but why aint they crackin down on us too?
Sep 25 2007 3:09PM
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oiECSoi
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why? do you want them to?
Sep 25 2007 5:47PM
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Adrenaline
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My uncle recently left the music industry, him and my aunt started their own business,  but we chatted about it at the beginning of the summer.  He said straight up,  they are just on a cash binge right now,  cash grab, because they know they are going to die.  They waited so long (music labels) without doing anything to cater to the market that they are trying to hold back as long as they can.  Very few are trying to innovate.  So give it 5 years and you'll see companies trying to make the next big thing to cater to the online generation.
Sep 25 2007 7:22PM
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mothaeast
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yea ive always wondered about this, but i figure there are many more dipshits out there that do worse shit than me.
Sep 25 2007 9:16PM
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cofreeskier
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Yeah I think sites like albumbase.com are the way to go because theres pretty much no way they can catch you for it...
Sep 25 2007 10:47PM
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MiniMeDanny
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don't count on tat
Sep 26 2007 12:13AM
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J.D.
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People going all "Yay I'm in Canada I'm invulnerable" need to stop counting on that shit. Yes, copyright law applies here too, and yes, on any given day shit could hit the fan.
Sep 26 2007 3:58AM
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Nihiriju
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thats why the put the music in .rar files, everything is soo split up that it is like impossible to track on the interwhole......so its really hard for those companies to catch you and sue for them.   RARS are a lot safer cuz they are like dinosaures and scar evil, rich, greeedy fucks away. 
Sep 26 2007 5:34AM
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TerminatorX
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everyone in all the countries except for the u.s should download as much music as possible to put the music labels out of business so that people from the u.s can download music again with out worrying about the bullshit.

Sep 26 2007 5:28PM
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thenakedcellist
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How do you turn all your sharing files off. I don't wanna get fucked.
Sep 26 2007 7:02PM
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SWA666ER
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dummb idea, i just wait till i have like 300+ songs i want wich is like every week, theni download it, get the songs, then dlete the application
Sep 26 2007 8:03PM
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SWA666ER
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even if u delete it after?
Sep 26 2007 8:12PM
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SWA666ER
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wow, thats crazy, i thought i had beaten the system
Sep 26 2007 8:24PM
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SkiMN
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Haha, nope. they get you with the tracker things they put in the files not the sharing programs like limewire.
Sep 26 2007 11:57PM
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RudyGarmisch
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They can get you for downloading a file, but having a file on your computer isnt grounds for being charged. As long as you reformat the file, you're ok most of the time. And yes, trackers and all can be avoided if you're careful.

But really, the RIAA is shit. Its a dying business and they're just doing this needless shit in order to keep making millions. Every year they lose 20% of their profits. They're hemorrhaging like crazy, and these lawsuits are all that they can do to keep afloat. With the internet, there is really no need for them anymore, and its ridiculous for them to try and contain it. iTunes doesnt have all the music in the world anyways, and its completely irrational and against everything the internet has spawned to believe that trading of files, music and programs will stop. People are going to keep doing it no matter what, they will always find a way around the barriers in their way.
Sep 27 2007 1:55AM
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skiierman
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Hahahahha, they call it "songlifting".

So gay.
Sep 27 2007 12:47PM
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PhilBenjamin
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Hey MacFly, who's music are your going to download when there's no more labels putting out music?
Sep 27 2007 1:02PM
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