There was an old clip from a while ago satiring the RIAA conducting raids on houses that pirated music.
Don’t leave your computer connected to the net 24-7, and every few days do a search of new files to see what is in your computer.
We are becoming China. Next they’ll put pop ups with union thugs telling you that you’ve been on too long and it’s time to step away from you computer and go outside for a walk.
When I let Windows Media Player and iTunes scan my drives for music they go through the mp3’s of music I’ve written and promptly mislabel all of it with “best guesses”.
There was one song in particular that Media Player wouldn’t play because I didn’t have the rights to it!
So I forsee a lot of people like me having their original work being deleted under such a scheme.
In North Korea, every home is wired with a speaker under the obligatory picture of Dear Leader. This speaker can broadcast government message into your home whenever they want.
Kind of like the MSM.
1st amendment, 4th amendment, 5th amendment, 9th amendment, 10th amendment, 13th amendment, etc.
Create an encryption container file big enough to hold all of your MP3s on your PC, format it and then store all your MP3s there. Only open it when you want to listen. You should be able to download a freeware encryption program like TrueCrypt or others with relative ease to do this. The encryption container will mount, look and act like a hard drive, but without you opening it and supplying a password, nobody’s going to search that sucker. When you aren’t listening to music, just dismount it.
I've bought Exile on Main Street three times. Once on LP and twice on CD. If I want to download "Rip this Joint", I'll do it. I've already paid Jagger and Richards for the song.
Is there any meaningful difference between this and what they are proposing?
This will work. No one ever backs up their collection to permanent off-line storage like CD-R or DVD-R. /s