[Atrocities]

Regarding the RIAA, I read today in the paper that the reason they only filed some 200 lawsuits is because they can't prove anything. They went after the cases that they new would "settle" only to stir the pot and make people scared to trade music. It worked. On line uses of P2P programs have dropped off by an estimated 70% over the Last week.

The RIAA cannot prove, or identify people who trade music or movies. People can say their IP was hijacked, which can and has happened.

The article goes on to say that the RIAA is being counter sued by some rights group for placing worm viruses and spy ware on peoples computers in order to find out who they were. That the programs were "enbedded" in the data of the song and when the song was played, the spy worm program was activated. They claim that only about 200 or so of these worms actually worked and those are the people being sued.

"If this is true and accurate, as evident by the increased detection of spy ware and other privicy violating programs by anti adware programs such as Pest Patrol in many of the songs downloaded over recent months, then we do have a big problem."

If the RIAA is embedding worm virus in songs that they release into the P2P community to track and catalog P2P useres, then they should be sued. Sued into bankruptcy!

[ September 16, 2003, 00:38: Message edited by: Atrocities ]