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Download copyright music = Fry your pc

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"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Illegally download copyright music from the Internet once, or even twice, and you get a warning. Do it a third time, and your computer gets destroyed.

That's the suggestion made by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at a Tuesday hearing on copyright abuse, reflecting a growing frustration in Congress over failure of the technology and entertainment industries to protect copyrights in a digital age.

The surprise statement by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that he favors developing technology to remotely destroy computers used for illegal downloads represents a dramatic escalation in the increasingly contentious rhetoric over pirated music.

I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights.

If we can find some way to do this without destroying their machines, we'd be interested in hearing about that," Hatch said. "If that's the only way, then I'm all for destroying their machines. If you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would realize" the seriousness of their actions"




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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/06/18/download.music.ap/



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Reply #76 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok, first... if I remember correctly, the Mac service let you also download the whole CD for a little less. For me, that's perfect. I would rather download an entire CD legally than try to find the tracks illegally. It takes a lot of the inconvenience out of buying CDs. Now, this is obviously only for people who place laws above...well...free music. For the rest of the world, I doubt the government will ever be able to SHUT DOWN all the P2P services. They may start finding ways to track downloaded music to the user, and fine/prosecute the person who downloaded it. Frying the computers of the people who download the songs won't do anything but make the population mad. The only way I can see the government enforcing laws against song-swappers is in an old-fashion courtroom. Also, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that at least 50% of the users at this site have probably downloaded music off Kazaa/Gnutella/etc. In the end, it comes down to the conscience of the person downloading the music, and the RIAA (which is obviously filthy rich) going after people all the time won't help. Niether will the Senator's idiotic ideas about a completely insane punishment for the people that download. (OK, I'm done ranting.)
Reply #77 from WinCustomize Forums Top
there is a way out for the RIAA as well as the music indrustry in a whole. I don't know they know it though... or are afraid to try it because the one thing big business hates in uncertainty. if they do what I think, it will be a risk, but more likely than not it will succeed.

I think your right Citizen AlphaDraco. To many computers would be put at risk and the owners (whether they are downloading music or its someone else) would be officially gooing after the music indrustry. Corporations, goverments, lawyers, everybody.

RIAA going after people will work actually. What they are after is awarness of that downloading specific music at 100mb a week is wrong. Its actually not allot of people providing these songs, it is a few who have whole albums of stuff on the P2P network. Get the point to those few and the other will too.

By the way, Kazaa and others are totally opening your computer up into hackers, viruses and anything else on the other persons drive. I am surprised nothing has happened.

Your taking out the mouths of allot of people not just the RIAA, but conveniantly those who download don't think of that.

I doubt most people on the site are because this site mostly has adults on it and are not likely to have those programs on their computer unless there kids put it on.

People who do this are mostly people who are on networks and are in school. Mostly at college campuses.
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Reply #78 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What it comes down to, in the end, is the maturity and sense of right and wrong of the person, IMHO. You're right, most of the people who download are younger. Using P2P networks to download music is (basically) an easy version of shoplifting music. Older people are likely to care a lot more about the fact that it is illegal...but at the moment, the RIAA is going after the networks and 1 or 2 of the actual users. Also, the people they DO go after are just examples. I believe it is known to most (if not all) of the users that there is a 99.9% chance they WON'T be caught. There needs to be more punishment, and also more reasonable punishment.
Reply #79 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Seems that Australia is often the 'first' to do things....real 'hacking' started here....then the first international net-based defamation case....and now this month the first private individuals [students] to face court on copyright theft charges relating to mp3 downloads.....aparently AUS $150,000 worth of illegal dl's.....but they are being charged on a 'single' count....to be 'specific'. BTW...in Aus we do not have 'fair-use' as a condition/allowance of use.....legally even backing up a song to audio tape is NOT ON...
Reply #80 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Needless to say, the world is watching this as it has world-wide repercussions...
Reply #81 from WinCustomize Forums Top
well.... kazaa et al. will be phased out in favor of the new secure p2p protocols
waste etc.

the RIAA's watchdog's salary is gonna go up
Reply #82 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I will say though, the problem with the music industry is not the RIAA but the million and one sellout copycats that inhabit it these days.

They're created and crush out individual unique bands by force of the record industry who wants to make another buck.

The MTV generation latching onto the utter CRAP and the unorigional 'artists' whining because they need another freaking p1mp3d out Ford Excursion to add to their fleet of vehicles.

Or maybe I just don't be(lie)ve.
Reply #83 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ever heard of an ISO?


tried that and it dosen't work either. The problem is that RA2 is on a DVD rom of sorts (i think bevause when you view from WE it has 4 gb of info on the disk) and I do not have a DVD writer...
Reply #84 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No, actually its 2 700mb CD's that RA2 is on.

CDILLA v2 is the copy protection Westwood Studios uses.
Reply #85 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ok my bad. sorry. cdilla is a damn good program i guess.