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kulki

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I love listening to songs especially the MP3s. I wanted to know if there was any way to find out if the songs that I currently download off kazaa are illegal? ALso are all MP3 downloads from kazaa illegal or are there some songs whose copyright has expired and can be freely downloaded?
thanks
 
so then its possible that FBI could simply search my house and put me in prison for it?? My freind really scared me recently that I shoud get rid of all my songs. I was wondering if there is really agood chance I might be caught??
thanks
 
Most are illegal.

You'd have a hard time finding an mp3 of the performance of a song that's old enough to have the copyright expire.
 
Originally posted by: kulki
so then its possible that FBI could simply search my house and put me in prison for it?? My freind really scared me recently that I shoud get rid of all my songs. I was wondering if there is really agood chance I might be caught??
thanks
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I hear you're sentenced 10-15 years and fined up to $35,000
 
I was under the impression that MP3's were illegal if you didn't own the original media that it came on. IE you own XYZ's greatest hits on CD so you can have the same songs in MP3 format. ???
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I was under the impression that MP3's were illegal if you didn't own the original media that it came on. IE you own XYZ's greatest hits on CD so you can have the same songs in MP3 format. ???
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I believe that's true, but I think it's also illegal to distribute materials that have a copyright.

So, if you have the CDs and rip them yourself, then you should be alright. If you download them and own the CDs, you should still be alright, but the person distributing them really shouldn't be and you should rip your own anyway. 🙂
 
there are some promotion mp3s that new artists like to put out to get their voices heard which are legal. but most of the time, the big name artists' mp3s are illegal.
 
kami I hope ur just kidding me. 15 years is way too long and tooo heavy a punishment. Can some one confirm that its indeed true??
 
ya,

kami was joking. No one ever gets caught for mp3s, but they are almost all illegal unless you own. So, the choice is yours
 
Originally posted by: kulki
kami I hope ur just kidding me. 15 years is way too long and tooo heavy a punishment. Can some one confirm that its indeed true??
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With the hundreds of millions of people around the world with mp3s, I don't think they have any reason to single you out.

I'm sure you'll be fine. 😛
 
Originally posted by: kulki
kami I hope ur just kidding me. 15 years is way too long and tooo heavy a punishment. Can some one confirm that its indeed true??
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Those amounts sound about right but the FBI has more to worry about than going after MP3 downloaders, the sheer costs of actually building a case against every mp3 user wouldnt be economical. Thus far I havent heard of a single person going to jail yet.
 
Actually, arod, those numbers came straight from my ass 🙂

hehe...sorry kulki, I was being sarcastic. you got nothing to worry about.
 
Originally posted by: kami
Actually, arod, those numbers came straight from my ass 🙂

hehe...sorry kulki, I was being sarcastic. you got nothing to worry about.
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Well I remember reading somewhere that you can actually go to jail/fines for having copyrighted material but they don't care/have the resources to go after people.
 
Classical music is public domain, correct?

I mean, Rachmaninov is not going to sue me for downloading his stuff, right? 😉
 
i think you should worry more about other things. Like check your air filter monthly 😉 They would go after the mass servers first before they hit the downloaders.. altho, if you share it all... OMG, TURN AROUND.. THEY'RE BEHIND YOU! 🙂

 
Originally posted by: kulki
kami I hope ur just kidding me. 15 years is way too long and tooo heavy a punishment. Can some one confirm that its indeed true??
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You're screwed. Not only will you rot in hell for being a worthless thieving pirate, but the Feds are going to lock you up and throw away the key. You'll be sharing gruel and water with Zacarias Moussaoui until you die of scurvy.
 
well I went through all my MP3s and realized that the only "pirated" album that I have is One by beatles. I actually have all the songs of beatles as separate album. But I like one since this album has all the best songs in one album. Does this also constitute as piracy eventhough I have the original CD of all the songs but not the original CD for One?
thanks
 
Allow me, if I may, to take you back to the year 1998.

The stock market is booming, Linux is really becoming popular, it's a good year.

A 16 year old college student at the University of Mississippi, or Ole Miss, has a 10Mbps ethernet connection in his dorm, which he plug into a peppy little K6-200 running Debian 2.0. Installed on this system is a copy of WU-FTPd, which has a nice 5 GB or so collection of MP3s on it.

As we continue on, the student (a CS major), wanting new CDs for his site, posts it. It's a very popular FTP. Popular enough to get a 5-star rating and near top billing on Lycos's MP3 page. The student, fearing trouble, limits the amount of users to 10.

Things continue on well up until the spring of 1999. It's getting warm at Ole Miss, and it's time to go on spring break. The student prepares for the 350 mile journey back down to the coast and leaves.... leaves his computer on.

The dorm staff, in their infinite wisdom, turn all of the radiators on full blast. The college student already has some pretty warm hardware, a Riva 128, Voodoo2, 3Com NIC, etc. It's very, very hot in the dorm.

The heat manages to mess up the harddrive. The computer, which is still on, can't read from the configuration file for the FTP site. There is no more 10 user limit. Chaos ensues.

Networks start to fall quickly. First just the campus, then the city, county, area, eventually it spreads even to Mississippi State some 150 miles south. There are 795 users on the site. The poor overheated computer can barely keep up.

The student gets back, everything's ok. Then a few days later, the network connection to the room gets cut. The student gets a letter instructing him to come down and speak to the Network Admin. The dean gets called. So does the board. So does the FBI. So does the RIAA.

The student appologizes, and is given a lecture. The powers that be are lenient. The student gets off. No more FTP servers for the student.

That was the scariest event of my life, after my mom's car wreck. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Allow me, if I may, to take you back to the year 1998.

The stock market is booming, Linux is really becoming popular, it's a good year.

A 16 year old college student at the University of Mississippi, or Ole Miss, has a 10Mbps ethernet connection in his dorm, which he plug into a peppy little K6-200 running Debian 2.0. Installed on this system is a copy of WU-FTPd, which has a nice 5 GB or so collection of MP3s on it.

As we continue on, the student (a CS major), wanting new CDs for his site, posts it. It's a very popular FTP. Popular enough to get a 5-star rating and near top billing on Lycos's MP3 page. The student, fearing trouble, limits the amount of users to 10.

Things continue on well up until the spring of 1999. It's getting warm at Ole Miss, and it's time to go on spring break. The student prepares for the 350 mile journey back down to the coast and leaves.... leaves his computer on.

The dorm staff, in their infinite wisdom, turn all of the radiators on full blast. The college student already has some pretty warm hardware, a Riva 128, Voodoo2, 3Com NIC, etc. It's very, very hot in the dorm.

The heat manages to mess up the harddrive. The computer, which is still on, can't read from the configuration file for the FTP site. There is no more 10 user limit. Chaos ensues.

Networks start to fall quickly. First just the campus, then the city, county, area, eventually it spreads even to Mississippi State some 150 miles south. There are 795 users on the site. The poor overheated computer can barely keep up.

The student gets back, everything's ok. Then a few days later, the network connection to the room gets cut. The student gets a letter instructing him to come down and speak to the Network Admin. The dean gets called. So does the board. So does the FBI. So does the RIAA.

The student appologizes, and is given a lecture. The powers that be are lenient. The student gets off. No more FTP servers for the student.

That was the scariest event of my life, after my mom's car wreck. 🙂
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heheheh....

That story rules. 🙂
 
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