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Gnutella Dying Soon?
by Steve Gibson, Apr 18, 2001 9:39am PDTThis will prove entertaining. Just as the RIAA managed to get Napster basically run into the ground for most average users, the MPAA is now getting ready to try and shut down Gnutella. Hey if it makes pings go down, good! :P
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has sent hundreds of letters to major Internet service providers and universities, warning them that some people on their networks are violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by trading copyrighted movies through Gnutella.@Home is playing along too, sending out letters to their customers saying they need to quit sharing movies or they get their cablemodem turned off.
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ever try to play a game of CS or something on knology when brother is in other room using Npaster?
expect to see ping of a stable 3000 or so
plus it makes everything so laggy
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1) OK, so we have email, right ? Email can be used for friendly chatting and work-related stuff and...sending MP3's. This makes it illegal, right ? OK, now let's prohibit people to use email.
2) The most used OS-family in the world is Windows. Windows allows people to share folders on LAN's making it possible for everyone with a login and a password to download MP3's, software and games off a computer that's on a LAN. Great, now let's sue Microsoft for making it possible to share files in Microsoft Windows ! They are the warez monkeys !
See what I mean ? Napster and Gnutella were originally created to allow people to share legal MP3's (like the ones that some bands make avaible on their websites or the ones that can be found on MP3.COM), it 100% up to the user if he/she decided to use this service in a "wrong way". You cannot sue the makers of Napster or any other file swapping service for making it possible to share illegal material, because if that was perfectly legal, I would go ahead and sue Microsoft for making Windows as well as sue whoever invented email. Man, I would be rich :D
Dan "Jago" Naumov
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Its the same thing.
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OH MY GOD! I JUST REALIZED THAT PEOPLE COULD BE EMAILING EACH OTHER COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL! And what about ICQ?
SHUT IT ALL DOWN! We don't care if you aren't using for illegal purposes. You COULD, and that's all that matters. Hell, many people do.
Fuckers.
i.a.t.b
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PS. IRC sucks. The big problem with IRC is the moderators become fashion moderators. If your taste don't match theirs your kicked. Worse than sysops from the BBS days.
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Dear Sirs,
It has come to our attention that some of your users are using the "Internet" to illegally trade in works created by our members, in violation of international copyright laws. Please cease and desist this action immediately or we will ask a court of law to order the shutdown of the Internet.
Sincerely,
The RIAA and MPAA
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next real audio will go into cahoots with windos to try and Kill Winamp
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-Lev
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So is the "sharing" of MP3's illegal or the download of them illegal? Can't have it both ways! If it's sharing the content, then it is @home's right to send those letters, if it's the DL of content, then they should send the letters to those respective parties. Either way this is an uphill battle.
What happens when I start decrypting/distributing my content aka freenet, or I share on a p2p basis, in which case their ability to break my conversation is in itself a violation of the DMCA.
Test: Use gnutella/napster, and share files you legally own. They send you a letter and threaten to sue, explain your situation, see what happens.
Test: Do like vantage does and put copyrighted material on a web site. Then tell the RIAA that the ISP is in violation.
repeat under different username.
Who will break?
Test: ISP's and phone companies make infinitely more money from users than the recording industry makes. Eventually, one will lobby harder and further... Right now, to everyone's amazement, they are letting the RIAA win!
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Hey, we don't want to do this, the MPAA is making us! Riiiiiight ...
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theres no way to get it out
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Just a thought.
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what don't i get here?
you think you get actualy more bandwidth when there's no file sharing or just lower pings?
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Nine Inch Nails - No You Don't
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While some of you have been sucking on my nipples, the others have been biting at my ballsack. After the MPAA is through with you, we're coming for you next.
It is not too late to repent! Decry Gnutella, and join us by buying Black and Blue by the Backstreet Boys, available now for $19.99!
Your friends @
The Music Industry
Eh, you knew it was going to end sooner or later. Keep fighting for music not fueled by corporate bigots.
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