Lawsuits!!

[Fozzee]

Reference all this chat of lawsuits etc on this site.............

Is this campaign just aimed at the US???

There are a lot of threads on this site about the RIAA.
Can someone tell me what this is??
And are those in the US the only ones at risk??

Cheers

Fozzee

[Faustus]

Currently its US only that I've seen, but much like the evil head of the DMCA it could likely be coming soon to a area near you.

[pacmania_2001]

ARIA (the Australian equivilent of the RIAA) has launched a small (in comparison) number of subpoena's to p2p users as well as against a few universities.

[Fozzee]

Currently its US only that I've seen, but much like the evil head of the DMCA it could likely be coming soon to a area near you.

Just did a GOOGLE on DMCA and it appears to be US law as well. How would that affect the UK??

Is Direct Connect p2p software?? And what about Bittorent??

Cheers

Fozzee

[RabidDog]

Call me naive but I presume your running these softwares and you dont know if their P2p... I hope you have a firewall and that you dont store banking details on your Pc.
This legislation is by the riaa recording industry association of AMERICA so they are only doing usa peeps. But its likely to start in UK soon...

P2p software is not illegal
file trading is not illegal
trading copyrighted materials .is illegal (in most countries)

[Fozzee]

Call me naive but I presume your running these softwares and you dont know if their P2p... I hope you have a firewall and that you dont store banking details on your Pc.

NEVER presume anything

What has banking details got to do with anything??????????


Any danger of people actually answering the questions instead of posing them??

Cheers

Fozzee

[Fozzee]

Is Direct Connect p2p software?? And what about Bittorent??

Cheers

Fozzee

I worded that incorrectly. I meant are these programs being targeted too or is it mainly Kazaa etc??

[pacmania_2001]

From the information I have read it appears that currently they are only targeting Kazaa (or variants of it).

[arcorob]

Fozzee said
"What has banking details got to do with anything?????????? "

When you use P2P software, you are allowing the file sharing of a particular folder. To do this you are in effect opening a PORT from your pc to the P2P network.

The software is supposed to protect the other folders however, once a PORT is open, an experienced hack now has an open door to your machine.

Thus the hope that you have nothing CRUCIAL on your PC .....That is what they meant

[thor300]

Never know when the industry strike next, for example in our small kingdom of Norway they already struck, but not with big success, one student were fined for downloading music, thats about all they achieved. This Norwegian boy known as DVD-Jon, creator of the DeCSS DVD descrambling program, was brought to court for watching his own DVD's on his computer "at the request of the US DVD Copy Control Association (DVD-CCA) and the Norwegian Motion Picture Association (MAP), allies of the US Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).", and he was not convicted. They want to try to stop us from doing as we like with our own property, the DVD-Jon case showed that they cant. Still some US law guys ment that he would have been convicted if tried in a US court: "he may have been found in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act"). We will never know, i just know that i pay "big" money for this small disks and then i consider them to be my property. As long as you dont live in the US theres nothing to be worried about. [/i]

[Fozzee]

Fozzee said
"What has banking details got to do with anything?????????? "

When you use P2P software, you are allowing the file sharing of a particular folder. To do this you are in effect opening a PORT from your pc to the P2P network.

The software is supposed to protect the other folders however, once a PORT is open, an experienced hack now has an open door to your machine.

Thus the hope that you have nothing CRUCIAL on your PC .....That is what they meant

Hi
I knew what he meant
That applies to any program you give internet access to your pc. You only have to connect to any chat program for other users to be able to obtain your IP address.
If someone wants to hack your pc they will find a way to do it.
I just didn't see the relevance to my post.

Thanks anyway.

Fozzee

[arcorob]

Oh okay