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LOL! Napster fans, take a look!

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The great thing about this publicity stunt is that the guy behind it is also behind FairTunes which is a website devoted to compensating copyright holders of mp3 music by allowing direct contributions from online consumers.

Anyhow, I don't know how long this will last. As far as Canadian law is concerned, Napster is legal if you only use it to download. The reason for this is that CDs and blank media are already subject to a manufacturers' levy that goes to the Canadian version of the RIAA. Thus, you have already compensated the artist and can download to your heart's content. Sharing out your files is another matter - you'll need the permission of the copyright holder to distribute the files.

All in all I like the whole Aimster approach - use the DMCA to the RIAA's disadvantage🙂

-GL
 
Leo V, yeah I was trying to say that there are those who do childish things, and there are those who know how to do bad things with it, however they use it for better things rather then trying to bring down Websites (Denial Of Service Attacks), or hacking friends computers.
 
also:
Even if the server is off shore, the DLs will stil lbe P2P... they will still be fat..right?

Now, I think RIAA should have taken the $1,000,000,000.
This will fix the POPmusic industry.
Without money from CD's, POP bands die, and concert bands, like GD, Phish, Stones, etc live...So, if you can't make it touring, you will be weeded out of the music industry.
 
Even if the server is off shore, the DLs will stil lbe P2P... they will still be fat..right?

LOL, of course, I completely forgot about that.. still, they'll need quite a few servers to keep up with demand!

EDIT: sorry KameLeon, I didn't see that thread before.
 
KameLeon,
That's the problem in America - the "world" stops at the border, there are a few enlightend individuals that know better though 🙂

We (outside the US of A) have been saying all they need to do is re-locate since the first sniff of shutting down Napster occured.

Personally - and I may be cynical - I think most of it is just "free" high profile publicity for Napster 🙂
I mean who has not heard of Napster by now?
When I started using it about a year ago - most people said "what's Napster?"
Now everybody is talking about it!

There are better options available now and I'll admit I rarely use Napster anymore due to the lack of file sharing types now connecting 🙁

What do I use - well lets keep that quiet - let Napster "draw the heat" while I quietly download and share elsewhere...hehe.... 🙂

Hint - outside the world is a whole new..." " 🙂
 
LOL great post gtd 2000!

Personally - and I may be cynical - I think most of it is just "free" high profile publicity for Napster 🙂
I mean who has not heard of Napster by now?

lol, no kidding.. hehehe.

What do I use - well lets keep that quiet - let Napster "draw the heat" while I quietly download and share elsewhere...hehe.... 🙂

Hint - outside the world is a whole new..." " 🙂

paranoia! yikes... the problem with that last line is this: it's going to get out eventually, and besides, whats the use keeping it secret, seeing as that limits the # of users it's going to attract, thus limit the # of selection you get.

I know most people will be shifting to either a Gnutella type program, or a Napigator type program which is based on the OpenNap servers that cannot be shutdown..

btw, the Gnutella one is next to impossible to shut down.. It's only problem is that it depends on normal people who don't have servers, just normal computers (though some I suspect could set up their own server type computer), so things can be a bit slow.

I think it's based on this type of topology: you connect to one guy, who is connected to another, who is connected to another etc, then when you find a song 15 people away that you need, you connect directly to them, and download.
 
hehe..I was only kidding with the paranoid sounding last line. 🙂
I'm sure most of you mp3ers know all about Audiogalaxy 🙂
 


<< USA Today did a story on it and they have a pic. >>

Wow, the water is fvcken dirty.

This is some of the funniest sh1t I've heard in a long time. I hope they do it just to piss off the RIAA.

I was just thinking that the RIAA will payoff some Navy official, to send some SEAL's over there and blow Sealand up.🙁 (Sorry, I was watching The Rock, and got cought up in the moment)

<< Sealand has since issued its own passports, stamps and currency - the latter bearing the face of Bates' wife, Joan.

Britain responded by extending its territorial waters to encompass the structure, originally erected in international waters. Otherwise, London has shown little interest. >>

Damn, they operate like the USA. If we can't beat you, will just change the law so we can, and make it legal.

That article was funny, I like that guy Gates. 😀 They don't dare come against me, I will crush them! I'm an ex-soldier!
 


<< what makes this interesting to me, is that the place where much of this started (MP3 trading in the States), is going to become quite a bit harder to accomplish, unless you resort to this, in which case, you have to go overseas to get the data (could be slower). >>



Not really true... the REQUEST goes overseas.. but thats it. the connections are still Peer to Peer.
Which BTW, may become illegal in most of Europe soon anyway - they plan on banning use of applications that allows users the ability to send files using any peer to peer method - technically, not only does this mean Napster, but ICQ and most IRC clients too!
 


<< they plan on banning use of applications that allows users the ability to send files using any peer to peer method - technically, not only does this mean Napster, but ICQ and most IRC clients too! >>



Is this for real?
 
I always find it ironic that although I've not lived in a democratic country for the last 5 years, people who do live in democratic countries actually believe they are &quot;free&quot; 😉
 


<< they plan on banning use of applications that allows users the ability to send files using any peer-to-peer method >>

Why I?m a not surprised. They can?t snoop on Peer-to-Peer, why do you think companies are having a hard time trying to bring this technology to the market.

I was watching CCN last week and someone was talking about Peer to Peer, and he hinted that the US Government was hindering the process, and would most likely legislate the companies in some way to provide records (something like that).

YOU ARE NOT ALONE! The real MIB-->😎
 
alright cool i live right next to there i'll probally get better ping times they just can't stop us now!!! hahahahah
 
Hahah, I remember AudioGalaxy when it was just a web search engine to which you subscibed your FTP to. Most people had ratios and all. Now they have this little app, its goodd but not the greatest. Napster has/had a nice, easy to use interface that many have grown into and accepted as the standard. When I started Napster there were only 20-30 users simultaniously connected. Dang, that was ages ago. Free music! live on.

HMV.com has associated themselves with www.garageband.com which issues $25 (CDN) coupons if you review some music. Nice deal if you like to own original CDs.

 
Audiogalaxy has been around for nearly 4 years, guys.

Just that now it's a spiffy app, and not merely an ftp search+browse website like before 🙂

Also: someone's going to need a Gnutella that allows for port manipulation cuz firewalls shut it down on major college campuses (some of the fastest networks, and most reliable ones, in the world : )

 
And yet another distributed network client espra.net but this one promises complete anonymity by using Freenet. What I don't like about this idea is that you have to allow a Freenet client to run on your system in the background and some of your storage is used to hold other people's files which are encrypted.



 
And yet another distributed network client espra.net but this one promises complete anonymity by using Freenet

yeah Freenet, I have that on my computer now... heh, quite the interesting idea IMHO, I barely understand it though. I wonder how the government will try to keep us from running that..

it isn't true that they'll banning Peer to Peer clients, is it??

what a bunch of crap, how the hell do they expect to police it, unless the ISP's all agree to watch IP addressing and port #'s..

Yah, gets some servers started in China. Everything is legal there <wink> <wink>

I don't know much about laws in China, but I've heard that they are alot better for people who like to Pirate, and do things like that, is that true??

akashira I corrected my statement in a later post 🙂
 
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