YouTube - Protect yourself from the RIAA 6-ways
#1 - Don’t Share Files — NO! That is leeching! The RIAA actually encourges this behavior because it is bad for the health of P2P sharing. It should be ‘Don’t be a leech, but know what your sharing’. Set up permashares (intentially designated marked shared folders) and put what you want to share in there and regularly watch your incoming folder. If you don’t want to share it, remove it from the incoming folder promptly. I have an unshared ‘assimilation’ folder placing these ‘don’t-want-to-sahre’ incoming files.
#2 - Rename your shared files — For the RIAA - it is better for the network to just share album and discoagraphy archives. THe RIAA currently is only monitoring for MP3s. Plus Emule and BitTorrent prefer large files.
#3 - Use and Site Fair Use — Don’t agree - it is not good to exploit ambigutities in the law to look legal. That is what the RIAA does to make their extortion seem legal. If it is a quote or modest excerpt, use and cite fair use, otherwise don’t bother, it ain’t worth the effort as it probably won’t work for you as you don’t have the lawyer cash.
#4 - Use Secure Internal Connections - I agree if you are paranoid about getting caught. Not enough people get caught to care, but legally hotter items than music and movies can be share, such as terror plots, pedoporn, and espionage. These defiintly should be shared on highly secured F2F darknets. Otherwise I prefer the open, free-for-all P2P networks.
#5 - Open Your WiFi - Bad Exploit. A dynamic IP address should be sufficient, as long as you have dial-up (it usually changes upon reconnect) or it changes on its own at least a few times aday.
#6 - Don’t Use P2P and Don’t Pirate Files - Well this is effective, but doesn’t match the theme. But the RIAA does sue on fair-use things too, though many fan-films use full songs, which really isn’t legal on my interpretation of ‘fair use’, but they shouldn’t be fussing over non-commercial uses like they are now.
