When will they start busting up IRC and newsgroups?

LordJezo

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Everything you hear is just Kazaa this and Napster that..

How long till they start hitting IRC and Newsgroups?


But if they busted newsgroups wouldnt they also bust the ISPs since they are the ones giving you access to newsgroups?
 

Cooljt1

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never....not gonna happen, mirc has been around so long...they arent doing anything.
 

AzNmAnJLH

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If someone gots the guts i suggest hacking all RIAA computers and make them play yatta 24/7
 

SWirth86

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Probably never... And if they do, there's tons of other ways. Not like any ideologies of people are changing.
 

oniq

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Originally posted by: LordJezo
Everything you hear is just Kazaa this and Napster that..

How long till they start hitting IRC and Newsgroups?


But if they busted newsgroups wouldnt they also bust the ISPs since they are the ones giving you access to newsgroups?

Shouldn't they, then, bust the Kazaa user's ISP because they allow them to use Kazaa? Why aren't they blocking Kazaa?!

Its like people buying guns, not everyone is going to buy a gun and go out and shoot someone. Just because someone uses Kazaa, or newsgroups, they shouldn't be punished for it -- unless they are actually doing something illegal on it. But then we can always monitor what people are doing, right? That wouldn't be too privacy oriented, would it?

I don't think they will hit IRC or newsgroups until these become massive distribution sites. They want to keep it under the radar, and if they began to bust people using IRC and newsgroups for sharing media the whole world would learn of a new alternative for file sharing.
 

oniq

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Originally posted by: Cooljt1
never....not gonna happen, mirc has been around so long...they arent doing anything.

mIRC has only been around since '95. IRC, on the other hand, has been around since '88.
 

dman

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Originally posted by: LordJezo
Everything you hear is just Kazaa this and Napster that..

How long till they start hitting IRC and Newsgroups?


But if they busted newsgroups wouldnt they also bust the ISPs since they are the ones giving you access to newsgroups?

Probably when there are lots more people using them. IRC is still a bit more 'techie' so it's not as common. Although it's quite simple with the available tools out there... the drawback is, with IRC you could still get people's IPs when they send you a file so that would be a bigger target for RIAA/MPAA to go after folks.

Newsgroups are a bit harder to track (easier to forge)... can route through other countries (different laws) so getting subpoenas is tougher. They would have to go after ISP's for carrying illegal content again and that's more difficult since they aren't content providers. Newsgroups seem to be dying simply for the amount of storage it takes to run them, as well as the bandwidth costs... most ISP's only carry the lowbandwidth/storage groups. The other stuff you have to subscribe to and that's a whole can of worms.

Big cat and mouse game though... other stuff will take it's place.

 

royaldank

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They do bust people on newsgroups. Not really the downloaders, but you should probably know what you are doing if you upload. That's why you see services for anonymous posting and things like that. It's the same as Kazaa...they aren't really busting the people downloading a couple songs. They seem to be targeting people sharing the music.
 

anxi80

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what are these irc's and newsgroup's you speak of?? are we making up stuff now? and what is all this talk about 'top psyches' ?

rolleye.gif
 

n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: anxi80
what are these irc's and newsgroup's you speak of?? are we making up stuff now? and what is all this talk about 'top psyches' ?

rolleye.gif

YOU WORK FOR THE RIAA DON'T YOU?!
 

anxi80

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: anxi80
what are these irc's and newsgroup's you speak of?? are we making up stuff now? and what is all this talk about 'top psyches' ?

rolleye.gif
YOU WORK FOR THE RIAA DON'T YOU?!
:evil:

yeah right, if i did, id have to kick my own ass.
 

yhelothar

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newsgroups are still the best place to download files...
max out your connection..
/me goes to the multimedia.erotica groups :)