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What sort of legislation has been done in this field? Could I be arrested for downloading, can Kazaa or iMesh be legally shut down, etc. I want to know whether my free music supply is going to be threatened. 
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Kazaa can easily be shut down.
Othernetworks, not so easy.
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How can Kazaa be shut down easily? I was under the impression that it doesn't rely on centralised servers."Paul Hanson, you should give Gibraltar back to the Spanish" - Paiktis, dramatically over-estimating my influence in diplomatic circles.
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Is there any way the EU could protect ptp networks? Weren't they opposing it?Comment
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IIRC, two years ago officials in the netherlands raided several homes going after suspected kazaa users. so the EU probably won't protect P2P.Originally posted by red_jon
Is there any way the EU could protect ptp networks? Weren't they opposing it?
kazaa should be relatively easy to shut down, Sharmon networks (the owner) is nearly bankrupt, a result of all the legal battles they have had to fight. But another, and another will take its place.Comment
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BTW, do any Kazaa users actually use the original Kazaa?
Most people use Kazaa Lite.
I guess if Kazaa goes down it's back to /listing IRC channels for me....."Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
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Kazaa reaches 6 million GB.
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Bah I don't need Kazaa, one LAN weekend provides me with 200 GB warez anyway, a few LANs a year and why the hell would you want to download at 0.02 Kb/s when you could be downing at 10 MB/s!!!
I even have a friend that rips movies for me
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Wonder when this thread will be closed? Not very long I think.
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What's wrong with this thread? it's OT after all you know?
nobody mentioned illegal sites or the like
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Piracy will never end...
To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Piracy will end when politicians will understand the flow of history, and make file-sharing legal. RIAA and alikes are desperately fighting against their fate. The tide is against them, and they'll postpone their unavoidable downfall as long as possible."I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
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come on 29 euros for a CD?
dinodoc will say our social welfare system is to blame.
bring the prices down, and the problem will go away.
what if you lose some profits? big deal.
plus mp3 haring isnt necessarily bringing down sales all by itself.
in the uk people have been buying more CDs after cheking 1 or 2 songs in a p2p program.
at least that happened some months agoComment
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A better system would be... lowering the price of CDs drastically, and giving the artists a wage every month instead of the artist earning money depending on how much they sell...
Naturally, some artists will get a higher pay as they are more valuable to the distributor, just like in a regular company employees who do more important work get paid more...
Also, in an entreprise employees that work harder and do more work and thus are more valuable than other employees who do the same work still get the same pay
Anyway this way everybody gains, except Shakira and the like, they will not be so filthy rich anymore, but they'll still be pretty wealthy, and at the same time, more unknown artists won't be so needy anymore,... the distributors will also quit the whining because we'll be happy and start buying more CDs again (I said "more"
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Say does this make sense or is it utter and complete bs you think?
Of course this is not a very capitalist way of thinking so I guess it won't be pulled off ever
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