old news but .....

[luvvbuzz]

i didnt know it was going on until i read it today. its a bit full on, i think craig said on here he received a spoof email from people pretending to be these people but what happens if you get it for real? scary stuff!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3104281.stm

[BJ_M]

when are they going to stop claiming cd sales dropped by 14% because of p2p/file sharing ? wake up people .....

also they say 52 million people in the USA shared songs last year -- thats about 17% of the population ... one huge chunk .. more people than vote for president i believe ..

[pacmania_2001]

Another example of media companies fixing the problem of piracy by using buckets to stop the flood instead of stopping the problem by turning off the tap.

From his Silicon Valley base he told BBC News Online: "There is no lock that can't be picked and our technology ensures that there is not a rock in the world you can hide under if you are sharing files.

"If you have an active internet address or connection and you are actively sharing files, our spiders will find you."

Again, the people they would be catching are going to be your average internet user, not the big pirate or internet savvy user that stays away from sources like P2P clients.

The fact that most people miss is that the world's smartest hackers and programmers arent working for large corporations or anti-piracy companies.

"We find between 1.5 million to two million copyright infringements a day and we have a very high effectiveness rate. About 85% of the people we send notices to go away and we never see them again."

Maybe he can explain why P2P (or piracy in general) still continues to grow in leaps and bounds?

The RIAA claims that around 57 million people have downloaded music in the United States alone and as a result sales in the last four years have fallen 14% to $12.6bn

Correlation doesn't prove causation. It's like their claims of loss arising from piracy, what they fail to mention or touch apon is that potential losses don't equate to real monetary damages.

He says once BayTSP has collected all this information, the copyright holder can use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to force an internet service provider (ISP) to reveal who is on that particular IP address.

Users charged with piracy, or ISP's refusing to reveal the identity of an IP address, could face lawsuits for damages from $750 to $150,000 under US copyright law.

Yes, United States copyright law, what about the rest of the world and the real kingpins of piracy, the Asian countries.

Even the right for media companies to force ISPs to reveal user information is still in the courts.

It's disappointing to see supposed quality journalism outlets like the BBC swallow and print such a one sided story.

[luvvbuzz]

well it is plain to see now that the hutton enquiry is out that the bbc is a media puppet theatre that the government use for propoganda, sorry this is delving into politics and i dont want to go there.
i think the BPI is doing the same as the RIAA so rather than bring down prices of cds in music stores so that more people can afford to buy more music, these people would rather pay other people to snoop around on p2p servers cos they might have some mp3s, you dont get people coming round your house to make sure that all your blank video tapes do not contain copyrighted films, because nobody cares anymore. here in the uk we pay more than people in the states for the same music, there has to be something done about that.

p.s pacmania you are aproaching your 2004th post on this website, perhaps you should have a celebration when you reach 2004?

[bugster]

From his Silicon Valley base he told BBC News Online: "There is no lock that can't be picked

Thats pretty much admitting that there is no copy protection scheme that can't be broken.

[pacmania_2001]

p.s pacmania you are aproaching your 2004th post on this website, perhaps you should have a celebration when you reach 2004?

Didn't even notice.

Just shows how much of a post whore I am.

[luvvbuzz]

oh yeah, you will have to have a special 2004 post, but i cant think what.