The RIAA Armageddon has begun

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101105134456/ring/images/4/4c/Samara8.jpg

lol

here's an article that shows comcast warnings 1-5

no #6 why because samara

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/heres-what-an-actual-six-strikes-copyright-alert-looks-like/#p3n

Anytime i download a p2p file i always make sure to set the upload limit to under 10k.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:34 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can you really escape discovery by limiting the upload speed? I thought the only safe way to use p2ps was to leech off of people without uploading any copyrighted content yourself.

(or to use a VPN)

Private trackers, VPN, encrypted torrent traffic, local ISPs.

Worst case scenario is that I'll have to stream a movie rather than download it and watch it. It may end up being even more convenient.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/six-strikes-copyright-alert-system-faq

only content i download off non-private trackers are new adventure time episodes. which is ridiculous bc i have a dvr but for some reason cartoon network doesn't tag its shows as 'new' so i can't record only new adventure time episodes.

what i'm saying is it's time to look for a private adventure time tracker i guess

six strikes? wtf is that? in which sport do you get six strikes?

bowling?

I believe six strikes were the rule in baseball until 1923, which is coincidentally the latest year you can freely use content from. That first part isn't true.

Looks like I'm going to spend this year listening to rips of wax cylinders!

I have all my music divided into two folders: a shared folder filled with all the stuff I've legally downloaded for free off the internet, and a non-shared folder full of stuff I've either purchased legally or downloaded via p2p. I've never received any complaints from other p2p users about the fact that I don't share much in the way of commercially available material (the shared folder is about 50GB), and people download what I do make available all the time in spite of most of it being easily and freely available without p2p.

Will this still possibly trigger CAS warnings? There are certainly many gray areas involved: tracks that were initially given away freely but have since been commercialized, DJ mixes featuring copyrighted material, rap mixtapes with industry beats, tracks with uncleared samples. Even if none of those factors were at play, would the very fact that I share music at all be likely to trigger such a warning?

Luckily, I have a huge backlog of "unconventionally procured material" (the bulk of it commercially unavailable) to work through while I wait for tech-minded people to figure out a user-friendly workaround to this newest hassle.

vpn

so if I were to download a bunch of out-of-print limited release stuff on soulseek would that trigger this?

it's like getting SB'd from the whole internet

it's like getting SB'd from the whole internet

have I told you lately that you are the fucking best

aw bless u

Private trackers, VPN, encrypted torrent traffic, local ISPs.

i love how loads of people think a rights holder would never use a private tracker

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324906004578292232028509990-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwNDEwNDQyWj.html

God I feel so bad for them. People who want to watch shows when they want and not see commercials are monsters.

can someone please summarise so i don't have to click a fucking murdoch link

Lee Fang ‏@lhfang
Rand Paul also filibustered a very well qualified judicial nominee this am b/c she once sued gun industry. He didnt speak at all tho.

ugh i pulled a shakey

balls out

http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/7-sound-recordings-made-before-thomas-edison

Some Steampunk magical technology here. Kind of a shame the record industry had to come out and limit all music to plastic discs.

Farewell to Mutant Sounds:

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-end-of-era.html

wow

Fuck

wow, that one hurts. RIP best blog ever

Seriously. Gonna miss them a lot. If anything I always thought MS drove up demand for a number of out-of-print releases to get reissued.

true. I've been expecting all of these blogs to be snuffed ever since they first appeared, but they ended up running for a long time. The rest of them will likely also fall soon.

RIP

shit

Posted by Ned on the n01z3 board MS thread: http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2013/03/mutant-sounds-reborn.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/18/174642060/supreme-court-lets-222-000-verdict-in-file-sharing-case-stand

The first person to challenge a file-sharing lawsuit brought by the Recording Industry Association of America has reached the end of the line.
Without comment, the Supreme Court refused to hear Jammie Thomas-Rasset's appeal, which means the $222,000 verdict against her stands.
Thomas-Rasset was convicted of sharing 24 songs on the peer-to-peer service Kazaa. She was arguing that the amount in question was excessive.

Songs shared include "The Beatles - Black Hole Sun.mp3"

can't believe they mistagged my favorite Savage Garden song

The Beatles - Black Hole Sun (Savage Garden cover)live.mp3

god, i miss audiogalaxy

what the hell kind of jury thought $200,000 was a fair payment for this

you could DUI-murder someone for that kind of cash!!

As long as you aren't listening to pirated music while you do it.

what a travesty

the one car accident i've ever been at the wheel for, the song playing on the radio was "black hole sun" ... by the beatles.

http://www.studiotv.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/john-lennon-peace640_360.jpg
Black Hole Sun....
Won't ya come....
....And wash away the rain...

;_; ;_; ;_;

American justice is the fairest in the world.

I could be wrong, but I think she got slammed because she originally refused to settle for a couple of grand, no? And unfortunately the law as written is pretty black and white, even though downloading is full of grays.

Anyway, good to know the industry is finally on this after decades of irreparably fucking itself over. Hot tip to the RIAA: you might want to keep an eye on China and the rest of Asia, but good luck on the enforcement front.

so if you really hate someone it's more economical to murder them with intent than to infringe their copyright