I thought the law doesn't matter anymore in California. Anyone can ignore it if they think it is "not constitutional" or doesn't agree with their social agenda. Someone call the mayor of San Fran for some legal advice...
LOL.....very good post !........Stay Safe !
Now THERE'S some interesting technology. Assuming the downloaded songs aren't in turn being shared, just how do they do that?
I never saw an industry thrive by suing it's customers. I hope this scheme ends up breaking the back of the industry. The only ones who prosper are the scum bag attorneys as usual. This is a better scam for them than a class action suit.
Hasn't anyone here ever heard of REAL Rhapsody---I came upon it by accident as a popup when I downloaded REALPlayer for something. A 14 day free trial, for 24 hrs. a day access to 700,000 songs and/or pieces of recorded whatever.
After the trial you can purchase full access for $24.95 per quarter, about $8/month. I've found some incredible stuff on it, especially jazz. You can't download but you can burn any tune onto a CD for 79 cents each. But you also have a Playlist which is there on the left side of the screen that you can access anytime you want: all the songs you've listened to wind up on the playlist, unless you remove them. So you can continually add to this playlist, and listen to it anytime you want. I guess burning a CD would be for the convenience of carrying around your favorite CD mix with you when you travel, or are away from your computer. I LOVE it!!!
You can "tune in" to Internet radio stations and it will record them and save each song to your hard drive as an MP3. It figures out what the song is and saves the file with the artist and song title as part of the filename!
You can record multiple stations at once, so you can build up a collection of songs rather quickly. Also, there is no way for the RIAA to "track" you since you are simply streaming audio, not sharing files. Besides, I don't see this as any different than recording FM radio to tape, which I used to do occasionally.
All this for $17.95 -- a far cry from the thousands of dollars you are risking by using P2P networks to download songs! And a lot cheaper than $0.99 per song.
My kids download a few..........a FEW..........songs here or there. If the RIAA tried to hand me a bill, I'd tell them to go f**k themselves.
Why the heck was my first comment removed? Did someone get their panties in a twist over a blanked out swear word?
Stop the RIAA bastards!
"Its agents then comb the play lists for names of songs that are copyrighted and that they believe are being illegally shared."
In other words, the article is wrong that they went after the girl for downloading. They went after her for sharing.
Simple solution.....don't share.