What if the RIAA and MPAA would forgive any downloads if you

[necine]

1) Use peer guardian when doing any illicit downloading
2) Use hardware + software firewall
3) Download whatever you want
4) ....
5) Profit!

Fsck em.

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: Jasiek

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: Rage187
went out right now and bought every CD and DVD you had downloaded?


Would you do it?

that'd be several grand . . . . I'd just zero out my harddrive if I thought I was in trouble. Music collections are easily rebuilt - money and time, not so much.

Actually, I could probably just delete all of the music that isn't legally free and that I haven't paid for, and be fine - I do own lots of CD's and records, and much of what I listen to comes from Archive.org (legal).

Actually there are ways to retrieve anything you've deleted on the hard drive, but those people that do that will never tell you how cause they probably work for the government.

not if you wipe them, to DoD spec or whatnot

or mega magnet

or take a grinder to the platters

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: Jasiek

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: Rage187
went out right now and bought every CD and DVD you had downloaded?


Would you do it?

that'd be several grand . . . . I'd just zero out my harddrive if I thought I was in trouble. Music collections are easily rebuilt - money and time, not so much.

Actually, I could probably just delete all of the music that isn't legally free and that I haven't paid for, and be fine - I do own lots of CD's and records, and much of what I listen to comes from Archive.org (legal).

Actually there are ways to retrieve anything you've deleted on the hard drive, but those people that do that will never tell you how cause they probably work for the government.

If all bits were written to 0, I doubt anything could bring the previous data back. Or still be accurate enough to be used in court.

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: Jasiek

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: Rage187
went out right now and bought every CD and DVD you had downloaded?


Would you do it?

that'd be several grand . . . . I'd just zero out my harddrive if I thought I was in trouble. Music collections are easily rebuilt - money and time, not so much.

Actually, I could probably just delete all of the music that isn't legally free and that I haven't paid for, and be fine - I do own lots of CD's and records, and much of what I listen to comes from Archive.org (legal).

Actually there are ways to retrieve anything you've deleted on the hard drive, but those people that do that will never tell you how cause they probably work for the government.

PGP disk will take care of that.

 

[Chaotic42]

I promised certain people in positions of extreme power that I wouldn't download any illegal MP3s again.

I haven't and won't.

So N/A.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

HAMMER of the sledge persuasion

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: Jasiek

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: Rage187
went out right now and bought every CD and DVD you had downloaded?


Would you do it?

that'd be several grand . . . . I'd just zero out my harddrive if I thought I was in trouble. Music collections are easily rebuilt - money and time, not so much.

Actually, I could probably just delete all of the music that isn't legally free and that I haven't paid for, and be fine - I do own lots of CD's and records, and much of what I listen to comes from Archive.org (legal).

Actually there are ways to retrieve anything you've deleted on the hard drive, but those people that do that will never tell you how cause they probably work for the government.

Thats true if you just re-format... a single zero-fill will wipe out most data & if your super-paranoid, a triple-zero-fill eliminate every trace.

Refering to the original topic... no.

 

[flashbacck]

I wouldn't count on Peerguardian. All they have to do is call up their service provider for new IP number. For all we know, they could be using a connection with a dynamic IP, and they just press the reset button on their modem every morning.

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I promised certain people in positions of extreme power that I wouldn't download any illegal MP3s again...

Who? Your parents don't count.
(btw, that Bridge to Nowhere situation in your sig is outrageous!)

 

[bigredguy]

the lawsuit would be way cheaper. Assuming that i had to buy every cd/dvd that contained even one of my songs/movies/episodes.

 

[Kadarin]

I *might* consider it if whoever at Sony who was responsible for the rootkit spent time in jail. But that's something that would never happen, so...

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: flashbacck
I promised certain people in positions of extreme power that I wouldn't download any illegal MP3s again...

Who? Your parents don't count.
(btw, that Bridge to Nowhere situation in your sig is outrageous!)
[/quote]

The government. It happened in 1998. Very messy.