pier to pier

footfootfoot · 06-02-2008, 08:26 PM

*Let's say* you *had a friend* who frequented a *cafe* with free wifi, and that *friend* installed a program like limewire and downloaded all kinds of tunes, how might the riaa ever find that friend since the isp in question would point to the cafe. Or would it?

just wondering. Maybe lime wire is gone, I've been away a while.

SteveDallas · 06-02-2008, 08:59 PM

You'll have an IP address from the cafe. The RIAA will know (it's easy to look up) that the address came from the cafe's ISP. They will have to get the ISP to cough up which of their customers had that address at that time, which will point back to the cafe. At that point the RIAA will shrug and find some lower-hanging fruit, or they'll send somebody to sit in the cafe and sniff the wireless network. (I'm betting a.)

footfootfoot · 06-02-2008, 09:14 PM

cool.
I mean for my friend.

spudcon · 06-02-2008, 09:43 PM

I have a friend who was considering that too.

dar512 · 06-02-2008, 09:51 PM

You guys can't afford to pay 99 cents for your tunes? That's pretty sad.

Bullitt · 06-02-2008, 10:02 PM

Limewire is still alive and kicking. Though *my friend* prefers torrents because *he* can download entire albums with ease, and usually finds other songs *he* likes in addition to the one that spurred *him* to download in the first place.

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Originally Posted by dar512

You guys can't afford to pay 99 cents for your tunes? That's pretty sad.

Oh we can afford it silly, there's just other factors at work that encourage *my friend* to choose to download rather than pay for certain artists.

dar512 · 06-02-2008, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullitt

Oh we can afford it silly, there's just other factors at work that encourage *my friend* to choose to download rather than pay for certain artists.

Choose to "steal" is what you should have said. How would you feel if you found out that one or more of your stolen songs had some of smoothmonikers work in it?

HungLikeJesus · 06-02-2008, 10:32 PM

Every time you steal a song, the RIAA kills a kitten. Think about that!

Bullitt · 06-02-2008, 10:59 PM

Ok, choose to "steal, "pirate", etc. My take is: I enjoy the music, but I do not enjoy monetarily supporting the bigwigs and asshats in the music labels, RIAA, etc. My purchasing a CD from them is just another mojito on the beach for some overpaid exec who is jabbing away on the phone to his buddies about more DRM strategies to further put a stranglehold on the public's ability to use music files, while his bimbo of a wife is asking her tennis coach if she should get a boob job.

I do however love financially supporting independent and local artists who haven't let their work get prostituted out.

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Originally Posted by dar512

How would you feel if you found out that one or more of your stolen songs had some of smoothmonikers work in it?

?

dar512 · 06-03-2008, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Bullitt

Ok, choose to "steal, "pirate", etc. My take is: I enjoy the music, but I do not enjoy monetarily supporting the bigwigs and asshats in the music labels, RIAA, etc. My purchasing a CD from them is just another mojito on the beach for some overpaid exec who is jabbing away on the phone to his buddies about more DRM strategies to further put a stranglehold on the public's ability to use music files, while his bimbo of a wife is asking her tennis coach if she should get a boob job.

Oh, please. Have you stopped paying for gas because big oil is making record profits?

This is just an excuse to get something for nothing. You want to boycott the major labels? Stop listening to their music.

Bullitt · 06-03-2008, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by dar512

Oh, please. Have you stopped paying for gas because big oil is making record profits?

This is just an excuse to get something for nothing. You want to boycott the major labels? Stop listening to their music.

No because I don't have another choice than to buy gas for my car. There's no puiblic transportation here, and biking is out of the question due to distance. If someone was cloning gasoline and giving it away on the street corner, I would sure as hell be in line to get some.

How about I keep listening to the music, but do my share to make it that much less profitable for them. Sounds like a better way to boycott to me, so I'll keep doing it. Cheers.

dar512 · 06-03-2008, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullitt

How about I keep listening to the music, but do my share to make it that much less profitable for them. Sounds like a better way to boycott to me, so I'll keep doing it. Cheers.

I'm sure you will do as you like; but it's certainly not an ethical way to live. Just because something is easy to do, and just because a lot of people are doing it, doesn't make it right.

Your conscience must be pretty gullible to fall for such a flimsy excuse as that.

Bullitt · 06-02-2008, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Every time you steal a song, the RIAA kills a kitten. Think about that!

They would those bastards!

SteveDallas · 06-02-2008, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Every time you steal a song, the RIAA kills a kitten. Think about that!

Wait, I'm confused. Now I don't know whether to download music or masturbate.

HungLikeJesus · 06-02-2008, 11:08 PM

Pier to pier?

I thought it was ship to shore.

06-02-2008, 08:26 PM	#1
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