Dangers of hotel file sharing?

[Gravity]

I travel a good bit and have a habit of using high speed hotel internet to get some recreational music from time to time. How persistent do you think the RIAA and other groups about tracking down who was in what room and what cable goes to what port and then researching the dhcp addy's to find out exactly who was where during the time a file was downloade?

Thanks,

 

[Glitchny]

umm im pretty sure they wont care if its only a few songs, last i heard the RIaa was only looking at users sharing more than 1000 songs


Also your name and icon are amazing similar to mine when looking quickly

 

[d33pt]

are people that paranoid about the riaa now? that sucks

 

[tm37]

Ok so you get a DCMA letter from cox and now are looking for a way to download music without them knowing.

Here's and idea why not go to best buy and BUY THE ALBUM

 

[Gravity]

Originally posted by: tm37
Ok so you get a DCMA letter from cox and now are looking for a way to download music without them knowing.

Here's and idea why not go to best buy and BUY THE ALBUM

No, not looking for ways, but examining all my habits and seriously changing those that are risky. Apparently, I've taken the big BW for granted and it's coming back to haunt me.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

You need to swear off P2P and BitTorrent for grabbing music, or at least practice safe downloading.

Ideally get in the habit of scanning the usenet groups dedicated to the style of music you like. Granted, that loses the selection, you only get what's posted, but the mp3 groups are super busy and you can build quite a collection with minimal effort. Downloading is completely anonymous, so it's safe. Do NOT upload/post, that's how you get tracked.

On P2P networks like Kazaa, only share public domain stuff. They go after those who upload copyrighted stuff, not the downloaders.

Avoid BitTorrent. Since it forces any downloader to be part of the upload chain apparently it's vulnerable to RIAA/MPAA snooping.