Seen that? – RIAA Vigilante Justice – The Article
RIAA Vigilante Justice – The Article P2P File Sharing
This article builds on previous blog entries RIAA (The Recording Industry Association of America) openly acknowledges distributing bogus files to deter alleged copyright infringement on the P2P file sharing networks. This is a significant activity as a presentation at the FTC workshop indicated that up to 50% of certain music files are such bogus files. This consumer risk affects not only the user downloading the bogus file, but also other P2P [...] Read More
RIAA vigilante justice P2P File Sharing
This article was inspired by Carlton Vogt and his excellent Enterprise Ethics newsletter. He wrote an article on the Lycos case called The Case Against Vigilantism: Is it ethical to use unethical tactics against someone you consider unethical? Spam, like alleged P2P copyright infringement, is a significant issue. Lycos Europe was going to combat suspected spammers by distributing software that would attack the Internet servers of such spammers. The intent was [...] Read More
RIAA admits much file sharing is accidental P2P File Sharing
RIAA said in November 2004 testimony before the Federal Trade Commission that most P2P users aren't aware that files are being shared. This runs counter to their PR campaign that P2P users are intentional pirates. "As an initial matter, P2P software may, upon installation, automatically search a user's entire hard drive for content. Files that users have no intention of sharing may end up being offered to the entire P2P [...] Read More
RIAA admits much file sharing is accidental Digital Music – The Future
RIAA said in November 2004 testimony before the Federal Trade Commission that most P2P users aren't aware that files are being shared. This runs counter to their PR campaign that P2P users are intentional pirates. "As an initial matter, P2P software may, upon installation, automatically search a user's entire hard drive for content. Files that users have no intention of sharing may end up being offered to the entire P2P [...] Read More
Share Large Files Free The Social Networking Weblog
Like to send music, videos and other files to your friends, but your email program can't handle the large file sizes? Now you can share large files with your friends, free. Tubes and Pando are two programs that will let you send large files, even as big as 1GB, and folders through your email or IM. Pando and Tubes can also be used to post video, audio and photos to your [...] Read More
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