P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-09-29
I wouldn’t say the the MPAA has surrendered. Just that the MPAA is a sucker for ass-kissing. If you can run a part that is legal and ass-kisses the MPAA (and maybe the RIAA too), then you can run another half that isn’t quite so legal and get a way with it. The ass kissing is a lot of work though… The main difference between Guba and YouTube is that Guba is scraping usenet with very little filtering, and that Guba is offering in concurrency, legal DRM video download rentals (YouTube does neither). There doesn’t seem to be much filtering for copyrights, so the MPAA is probably being well bulshitted on the ‘content filtering’. Dowload while you can! The episodes will last much longer on Emule though, so if it ain’t blocked, just use Emule because it doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon and will most likely outlive YouTube.
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I don’t care for skype. Skype uses Kazaa’s P2P methodology, mostly revolving around the supernode topology. Kazaa / fastrack has poor bandwidth control and it is easy to hack and exploit. If the RIAA can easily plant fake files, currupt files and virsues into existing file shares on Kazaa, then think of what they and other people like the goverment may be able do to your phone calls. But if I were a student, i’d want my uber-cheap (or free) long distance phone calls, and if Kazaa is all there is, then Kazaa (Skype) it is.
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Just a little bit over a 50% response rate? Actually that isn’t to bad sinc the RIAA can barely reach 60% with intimidating, threatening collections calls from the Settlement Support Center.
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Is Apogee just responding to and passing-through DMCA letters from the RIAA or BSA or are they acting proactivly on their own? They are suposedly the ISP college dorms’ internet access. I wonder how long I would get away with using Emule at this school? I think InfoServices can track OurTunes and MyTunes just as easily as an ordinary network share after just a little bit more initial effort. Worse, I don’t see the ability to password-protect your Itunes shares because SUNY Tech expressly forbids un-passworded network shares, no matter what the content. This rule is actually not primarily motivated by anti-piracy, but from the child porn bust that happened the previous year that did significant damage to the school’s rep – child porn was being shared on an un-passworded share. I was sharing my entire MP3 and ROMs collection unpassword though and most of my own acquisition was scanning the network machine by machine for MP3s.
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Fight back at the RIAA, fight! fight! WAR!! (Just not too preemptively) Who gonna pay them lawyers though?? ???Defendants admit the allegations of the first sentence of paragraph 41 of the Complaint. Defendants deny the remaining allegations of paragraph 41 of the Complaint but admit that the LimeWire software application can automatically launch upon start up of a user???s computer for Windows versions only, unless the user designates otherwise.??? (Slyck article) Is a boo boo. “Sound recordings” is only a logical subset of the amount of files made available on Gnutella/LimeWire. Not the only type of file made available as the RIAA’s paragraph wants to make the judge/jury to think. Actually, the Gnutella network is the leading scource of leaked goverment classified documents…. Gnutella is optimized for small files after all… I download album archives and discographies from Emule, as Emule is optmized for big files. The RIAA hasn’t caught up with the times yet to monitor compilation archives effectivly, though they do plant a lot of fakes in the form of mass-seeding passworded archives though, but the preview feature will tell me if an archive is passworded before I get 20% of the file. Emule has enough individual song files (popular radio hits usually) to decide if I want to go grabbing at the albums or the discoagrphies.
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This reporter needs to populate Emule’s IP blocker. His server list is full of fakes, many run by the RIAA. I can tell by this — “However, with the servers reporting over 18.3 million users logged on and 2.2 billion files shared at the time of press”. The ED2K network is running between 3.3 and 4.2 million simultanous users right now (4M is usually late night weekends, usually not over 3.6M on weeknights). This guy is probably getting pounded half to death by NetSentry right now.
