RIAA asks ISPs to shut down napster clones

[tontod]

Seems like the RIAA isnt stopping at napster, they're going after the likes of napigator. Read it here.

 

[konichiwa]

Hahah, I wish them luck -- they'll need it. It's not possible to just shut down every source of copyrighted music. Are they going to go after IRC, WWW, FTP and NNTP next? Hah!

 

[Emulex]

solution: move napigator out of RIAA jurisdiction.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

ah, it doesn't matter anyway. I go to school with a guy who, with his brother-in-law, are putting together a program much like Napster, but won't work off of servers, somehow. And it won't restrict file-transfer to just .mp3 (.mp4?) file types. It's a totally open sourced, free trade of absolutely anything.

And, because it won't be copyrighted to them or anything like that, industries will have to sue thousands of users in order to shut it down.

:Q

 

[IamDavid]

The RIAA will soon discover there is no answer to file trading... Then they will feel stupid for not joining with Napster instead of shutting them down....

 

[konichiwa]

FFMCobalt

Sounds like you're describing just about any peer-to-peer filesharing program out there such as Gnutella.

 

[Soulflare]

or BearShare (which is basically a more user friendly version of Gnutella).

 

The ISPs made you sign a disclaimer when you got their service.
It basically says that they are not responsible for anything that goes across their networks. And that all penalties would be deferred to the client(customer).
But what about Carnivore type systems. Packet sniffing machines on ISP side that could detect *.mp3, etc.
That would be a serious infringement of our rights, but who knows how far money will push lawmakers.
There is no stopping it, it has been going on for years and years, now its getting big headlines because its hitting mainstream.
No surprise, the people who know what they are doing will get what they want.

 

[piku]

Thats the problem with Napster. Where they went wrong.

There IS someone to sue. If they just didn't try and commercialize it and make money and left it just as a program, we wouldnt be going through this mess. But they tried to make money where it wasn't to be found, and look what is happening.

 

[Emulex]

its obvious the SPA has failed, now the RIAA will fail at the same task

 

[SpongeBob]

There's no way to stop file-sharing now, the RIAA is at least 5 years too late. The legislation simply cannot keep up with the rate of advancement and increase of file-sharing technology.