http://www.wral.com/news/4832055/detail.html

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" CARY, N.C. -- A Cary woman reached a settlement with the recording industry over illegal downloads. Lynn Scott's teenage daughter downloaded thousands of songs from services that allowed free file sharing. Scott settled for $3,000. Her daughter plans to repay her mom by working part-time jobs. "

8/10/2005 3:08:35 PM

Only $3000? That's not bad considering what they have been settling for.

8/10/2005 3:10:32 PM

I NEVAR DOWNLOADED THOSE SONGS!!!

MY COMPUTAR WAS TEH H4X0rED!

8/10/2005 3:12:22 PM

that'd be my argument...

i'd install some sub-seven trojan on my laptop and say look...

8/10/2005 3:17:49 PM

they are terrorists.

they just hit one of a billion people to scare the masses off

im not worried.

[Edited on August 10, 2005 at 3:42 PM. Reason : -]

8/10/2005 3:41:48 PM

I think Joshnumbers is right. They probably picked Cary because it has low crime and is an All-American kind of white bread suburb. People think "God if they got someone in Cary they can get anyone!"

Just download from Russian pay sites or private FTPs, that's the way to go. I guess I should technically say you should pay for all of your music, but who am I kidding...

8/10/2005 4:02:28 PM

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"i'd install some sub-seven trojan on my laptop and say look... "

8/10/2005 4:03:41 PM

cant you just move it out of your share folder?

8/10/2005 4:04:53 PM

It was a chick.

8/10/2005 4:05:50 PM

haha say no more!

8/10/2005 4:13:15 PM

i would just destroy my hard drive

8/10/2005 9:09:53 PM

they go for logs, not hard evidence of it being on your harddrive.

8/10/2005 9:52:45 PM

if they just check logs would an adequate excuse be that someone broke into your wireless and dled from there?

8/10/2005 10:30:03 PM

^^ how would they be able to prove that it is actually the song instead of dead air renamed Aerosmith

8/10/2005 10:41:54 PM

i don't think they have to prove that.

because judges aren't smart enough to know all that and there's precedent now and also the RIAA is in bed with the judicial system.

8/10/2005 11:01:16 PM

it's always made me wonder why, with all the available technology, artists even go through record companies anymore...it seems like they could charge less to consumers and make more money

8/10/2005 11:08:03 PM

what's funny, is that the medium for d/ling has changed to bittorrent, and ftp servers have faded a LOT.

Etrade used to have server announcement posts, and now there are only a handful of people that post to that list anymore.

Sugarmegs used to have tons of ftp server admins too, and now there are only a couple on there.

On the flip side, bt has risen in popularity, and practically anybody i meet now into the online music trading scene looks at me funny when i ask them if they ftp...

bt's alright, dgmw, but ftp is my preferred method.

etree.org
sugarmegs.org
sugarmegs.net

8/11/2005 10:28:56 AM

bittorrent blows donkey balls.

8/11/2005 11:14:34 AM

i don't like it either. furthur ins't so great imho, i don't even know what else is out there now b/c if i ever need anything i can find it through ftp channels still

8/11/2005 12:07:00 PM

i hate the RIAA. true evidence of evil in the world.

8/11/2005 12:55:36 PM

realm protected, and encrypted HTTP is what i've been doing for a while.

very safe as far as i can tell. can't even tell whats in the directory without a valid user/pass.

8/11/2005 12:56:53 PM

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"furthur ins't so great imho"

Yeah, I was never impressed by its performance. The shows available were awesome, but downloads were just ridiculously slow.

8/11/2005 1:02:05 PM