just when i think you can't be a bigger moron ... you go and prove me wrong.
Quote: "The RIAA is fighting for its existence"
.. a government backed agency is fighting for existance? how exactly?
.. RIAA might go under just for another agency to take thier place, there will always be an agency in its place.
Considering that these guys are not the ones who will sue you but actually track you down on behalf of a company suchas EMI or Warner Entertainment - which are the ones with the price tag NOT the agency.
Quote: "BTW -- Eddie, they can sue you. They may not WIN, but they can sue you. Bear in mind, in the corporate mindset they can kill you with fees and paperwork. Look up Pyrrhic victory."
actually rather than pushing for paperwork or any of that bull, what'll happen is they'll present the evidence to your attorney.
They will TRY to get you to settle this out of court, if you do goto court it isn't a case of "you might win..." if they are taking you to court then you have already lost. That is how the business works i'm afraid, companies don't take you to court unless they know they will get a return.
Hense they won't sue you they'll supeana you first, and try a cease&desist with compensation damages.
ya'll can sit there thinking up clever ways to get around this but i recommend you READ the law that was passed on this.
it doesn't affect anyone outside of California (yet!) but no doubt when the legislation goes to congress along with the spamming laws there are gonna be some bills passed.
and just thinking because your not in the US you can't be touched because all software is governed by an international law which states that if you USE that software you agree to the terms of service which bind you to the laws of the companies nationality incorporations.
Someone like FastTrak Publishing would be governed only by UK law... whereas someone like Nintendo would be governed by Japanese law -> International Law
so they can do you based on thier own laws internationally - but as they're also incorporated under European and US law they could choose to take you to court under thier laws too.
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i seriously doubt you guys understand exactly what trouble even being accused of software piracy will do to you ... not just financially but as the part and package deal - they can destroy credibility ... it can give you a criminal record (yes just from being accused) - it could hurt your credit rating.
ya'll ain't got any clue to how serious the trouble is even being accused of this is, let alone if they actually follow through and take you to court.
no amount of snake oil will get you out of this - you think some francy IP masking or dynamic IP or IP Ghosting or IP Hopping will save your ass?
christ ya'll best get reaquinted very fast with what your computer has in it... every motherboard, processor give your comptuer a unique ID number, this is combined with your Networking Card/Modem/PCMICA card's own unique IP (which is built INTO the card you CANNOT change it no matter how much you want to) which can be called from your machine remotely.
each computer is like a finger print, and your hard disk also has anti-piracy measures now too ... unless you know EXACTLY what the hell your doing they will find evidance and link you.
you think you know that you can beat these people, they can take down the serial codes of everything attached to your computer at the time (which are all unique to that product) and they can take down the entire system callback to what is actually connected according to the OS... all within 10seconds on a standard modem.
Not to mention thier rights to obtain you information which is sent to your ISP everytime you log on, most IPs by law MUST log your computers number and activities...
so you may be able to pull of cleaning your own system and trying to fake your way around everything - but there is always a backup of everything you've done.
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sorry but out of all the cases they've taken to court they haven't lost one... what makes you think you can fool the system.
its like people who think they can fool a lie detector, yeah some people can - but you have to be bloody good at knowing what they'll be measuring and controlling that.
Sorry most people just don't have the skills, those who do will no doubt be noted to for having these skills and that will be taken into account with the prosecution.
