[Pern]

In desperiation for profit, the Entertainment Industry sues it's own customers!

There's a link to the web site on the original article, but I'm not HTML savvy enough to post it here. Not enough coffee yet.

[yeetch!]

http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/riaasubpoenas/

[itzmygun]

What other product are you forbidden to sample before you buy? I can test drive a car, I can try on a shirt. I have purchased about 10 albums this year that I would have never bought if I hadn't been able to check out some songs by downloading them from Kazaa - something the recording industry says is hogwash...

[Ex-Dem]

These people need to have the good sense not to use unique screennames, period. If you just use the default sn (defaultuser@kazaa, etc.) you draw less attention to yourself.

[zook]

bump

[dix]

Interesting topic.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Wouldn't it be a better analogy to say they are suing their own shoplifters?

[The Great RJ]

The recording industry is shooting themselves in the foot. Despite these law suits, the more tech savy web denizens will still find the means to continue file sharing and the sale of over priced, over hyped and often talentless CD's will continue to nose dive. Doesn't someone out there realize there is a large market for music that isn't rap, boy-bands or Brittany?

Perhaps the likely success of sites, like the new I-pod site where you can legally (I guess) download a single song for about $1, will be a wake up call.

[Scenic Sounds]

Don't worry, Amelia. I didn't rat you out on this.

I ain't said nuttin to nobody! ;-)

[George W. Bush]

I expect that they have chosen to target filesharers with huge collections, that have a permanent assigned IP address and high-speed connection (DSL/cable) and who have maintained a consistent user name on Kazaa. These are the easiest targets in a lawsuit. Further, they have probably downloaded the files from these users repeatedly in a legally documented way to demonstrate that they did indeed provide the files to others.

At any rate, Kazaa dropped by about 2 million users when this list was published. So the legal tactic is working. I would expect that far more than 2 million have disabled downloading files from their own machine to anyone else.

I think this will spur the growth of FreeNet. It recently had a much-needed upgrade. FreeNet is probably the next P2P battleground.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

keep

[Bill S]

If I understand most of this thread, it's ok to steal something if you feel that it's overpriced. These opinions are unworthy of anyone who considers themselves to be conservative.

[Tribune7]

Freep poll (file sharing, copyright)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So...how many subpeonae are there for the username "kazaaliteuser"? That's the generic name that many users are listed as when they don't log in. And login is not essential to use the network.