Author Topic: File-swappers beware (Read 2002 times)

shmokes · « **on:** April 21, 2005, 08:07:09 am »

Bill expected to be signed into law

Looks like the feds are cracking down on online piracy.

"The bill, approved by Congress on Tuesday, is written so broadly it could make a federal felon of anyone who has even one copy of a film, software program or music file in a shared folder and should have known the copyrighted work had not been commercially released. Stiff fines of up to $250,000 can also be levied. Penalties would apply regardless of whether any downloading took place.
If signed into law, as expected, the bill would significantly lower the bar for online copyright prosecutions. Current law sanctions criminal penalties of up to three years in prison for "the reproduction or distribution of 10 or more copies or phonorecords of one or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of $2,500 or more."
Invoking a procedure used for noncontroversial legislation, the U.S.
House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the
measure, called the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act. Because the bill already has cleared the Senate, it now goes to President Bush for his signature."

daywane · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2005, 08:20:26 am »

I figured it was coming soon .
I have often wondered how hard it would be to set up a old school BBS
with the new PC'S?
members only. I must say I really miss those days. things were much more private
1st. you had to know the PH#
2ND. you had to log in with a password and only 1 person logged in at a time.
(once I fell asleep and caught all kinds of slack for hogging the BBS

)
how safe is instant messanger?
wonder if news groups is next ?

shmokes · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2005, 08:33:45 am »

You could set up an FTP server and only make it available to people with the correct username and password. You could link to it off your website, where you would have a chat section and a message board. Seems to me that would give you everything a BBS had, minus the theoretical top speed of 56k.

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2005, 09:22:08 am »

gmail sharing is all teh rage now with mp3's. you get a group of people on one big gmail list and you attached mp3's. everyone gets em.

I'm sure this could be used for files as well....prollyhave to split them up to several linked zips though

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2005, 10:31:52 am »

they will never be able to crack down on IRC, always been there, always will be

GGKoul · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2005, 11:07:21 am »

Quote from: Hoagie_one on April 21, 2005, 09:22:08 am

gmail sharing is all teh rage now with mp3's.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 21, 2005, 11:08:48 am »

i can see it now... selling gmail accounts on ebay that come with 2000 songs. lol

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #7 on:** April 21, 2005, 11:22:45 am »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on April 21, 2005, 11:08:48 am

i can see it now... selling gmail accounts on ebay that come with 2000 songs. lol

now thats brilliant

GGKoul · « **Reply #8 on:** April 21, 2005, 11:55:33 am »

So I have 50 gmails accounts at 2 gigs each.. thats 100gigs of music and whatever... hmm...

Shape D. · « **Reply #9 on:** April 21, 2005, 11:59:48 am »

E Music

menace · « **Reply #10 on:** April 21, 2005, 01:39:59 pm »

Any law without enforcement is just paperwork--so are they going to spend tens of thousands of dollars to track down that guy with a ripped dubbed jackie chan movie? of course not, they are still going to target the big offenders and ignore the little guy. I can't understand their zeal to make absurd laws for everything....

shmokes · « **Reply #11 on:** April 21, 2005, 02:20:59 pm »

It's probably directly related to their zeal for campaign contributions from the companies they pass these laws to apease.

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #12 on:** April 21, 2005, 02:30:42 pm »

Quote from: menace on April 21, 2005, 01:39:59 pm

are they going to spend tens of thousands of dollars to track down that guy with a ripped dubbed jackie chan movie?

They don't have to.

There are cameras now at traffic lights that take pictures of your plate, and then they just mail you a ticket.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 21, 2005, 02:53:38 pm »

yeah all that stuff you just mentioned, combined with how a lot of new cars have GPS trackers on them.. i dont think the matrix is too far off

mr.Curmudgeon · « **Reply #14 on:** April 21, 2005, 05:02:17 pm »

KDX = the new BBS

mrC

mr.Curmudgeon · « **Reply #15 on:** April 21, 2005, 05:04:07 pm »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on April 21, 2005, 02:53:38 pm

yeah all that stuff you just mentioned, combined with how a lot of new cars have GPS trackers on them.. i dont think the matrix is too far off

The matrix is already here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,35667.0.html

mrC

SOAPboy · « **Reply #16 on:** April 21, 2005, 06:51:59 pm »

Quote from: Sephroth57 on April 21, 2005, 10:31:52 am

they will never be able to crack down on IRC, always been there, always will be

Aye

rchadd · « **Reply #17 on:** April 21, 2005, 07:10:07 pm »

Quote from: Dartful Dodger on April 21, 2005, 02:30:42 pm

There are cameras now at traffic lights that take pictures of your plate, and then they just mail you a ticket.

GGKoul · « **Reply #18 on:** April 21, 2005, 07:51:10 pm »

Quote from: rchadd on April 21, 2005, 07:10:07 pm

Quote from: Dartful Dodger on April 21, 2005, 02:30:42 pm
There are cameras now at traffic lights that take pictures of your plate, and then they just mail you a ticket. That led to cameras at constructions sites to enforce speed limits, which will lead to cameras everywhere.

thats already here in the uk

its a great money spinner for the government & cops

ive got one of these...

http://www.blackspotinteractive.co.uk/

They have red light cameras in Canada too.

jbox · « **Reply #19 on:** April 21, 2005, 10:15:44 pm »

Quote

ive got one of these...

Pssst. Don't tell anyone else, but me and my friends have worked out this amazing new t3K4 that allows you to avoid all tickets from "Big Brother". I've been using mine for years now and never once gotten a ticket...

Alternatively, you could try voting instead. I'm led to believe that still works in some countries in the world.

RayB · « **Reply #20 on:** April 22, 2005, 11:41:18 am »

Matrix? You mean Big Brother.
Mandatory webcams in every TV set.


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