Posted by speeder on 10/11/05 03:58

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:03:50 -0400, Don Wiss <donwiss@no_spam.com>
wrote:

>It seems to me that when I read about people that the RIAA has sued I read
>that they have been caught supplying a file to the RIAA that the RIAA knows
>has been circulating around for a while. Like from the Napster days. Unless
>you download something from the RIAA, and we don't have any evidence that
>they are illegally serving up copyrighted files, this would be the only way
>they can know that you have downloaded a copyrighted file. What do others
>think? Would it be safer to only share your own rips?
>
>Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).

Revenge of the Sith was available back in the Napster days?! God, and
I missed that one...

Don, there are techniques like digital watermarking to track
copyrighted material. Though I hardly think the RIAA would be so
sofisticated, it could in theory nail your rips back to you. Do you
know how to identify and scrub those out? Didn't think so.

Besides, what makes you think you can freely distribute something that
you've bought? Just because you've paid for it?? The RIAA thinks you
can't. And it will sue you regardless and you'll have to win your
case. So far, no one has even argued that in a court of law. Do you
want to be the first?

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