Posted by Amun on 10/03/05 04:41

"FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in message
news:1128304912.027023.7090@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>
> Amun wrote:
>
> > How much did it cost the RIAA in legal fees, and other associated
expenses
> > to send out all the orders and threats needed to get frontcode to pull
the
> > plug ?
>
> It was probably on retainer - which means it was practically spent
> already, only now they had something to show for it. Well, sort of.
> >
> > Only to find out they didn't accomplish much other than create their
worst
> > nightmare.
>
> for old hands, maybe - but when they read this NG, and I can't belive
> that they don't, and they see the same clueless and lazy newbies, and
> you know they do, they probably get this shit-eating grin on their
> collective corporate faces and think to themselves - goood job!
> Decentralized networks, and hordes of users incapable of getting off
> their asses to make them work.
>

Of course those that don't know how to set up a "hosts" file, or search for
open nap servers, also never knew how to set up a ripping program, so were
many of the "leeches" well known in P2P circles.
I guess we can thank the RIAA for fixing a problem that dozens of add on
anti-leech apps couldn't solve.
<g>

The lazy ones will now go to limewire and others, and endlessly share the
same 200-300 corrupted files.

AMUN

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