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| Still Amazed at the blundering idiots (RIAA/MPA) While the lawyers for the RIAA and MPA try to bully the ISP's and LECs into revealing their customers that they claim are downloading content they didn't pay for, they are completely ignoring the fact that these businesses themselves are probably the biggest violators of copyright infringement and have been conducting such activities well before P2P was in existence.
I've chimed on the note of NNTP before, but anything that has previously replied simply stated to 'shhh, keep quiet' or 'what's NNTP'? For those that do not know, NNTP is Network News Transport Protocol. Imagine it to be something like a old-timer's forum, text-based, and using the same communication set under TCP/IP.
Unless you are special, your ISP provides some sort of basic NNTP service. And, with the right software (e.g. Outlook Express, Xnews, FreeAgent, Gravity, etc.) you can access an NNTP server provided by your ISP. What you will find upon initializing the groups list is that as many as 60,000 newsgroups (or more) on various subjects and in various languages.
In general, NNTP is not a threat. But there are some newsgroups that cater to the posting of binaries, or binary files. A binary file is one in which usually someone wishes to post an encoded file that may span several parts because of its size. On some binary posts and in some newsgroups the file sizes can be tremendous, and the content can include software, still images, video, music, and other forms of traditionally non-text content.
The NNTP protocol has been used to transport content for almost a decade (maybe longer, and specifically binaries, here). I, myself, downloaded binaries back in 1993, which was before Napster and the idea of music trading. Still, if you want a music track of whole CD of music you can post your request and usually someone that has it, familiar with NNTP, will usually do you the favor and post it.
Still, I am surprised that these entities that are bitching are illustrating that they are completely ignorant, or uninterested, in the NNTP caravan of illegal content trading of copyright materials. No, I am not the moral majority. No, I am not trying to shut down the NNTP service or the get the ISP's into worse financial trouble (via RIAA and/or MPA law suits upon them), but merely to illustrate that the idiots causing the hub-bub about P2P (i.e. downloading and trading of copyright materials) has been going on for a longer period of time.
Let's not assume or forward the idiot notion that Kazaa servers are maintaining huge server-based storage farms for storing Terabytes of copyright materials (as far as I know, that's BS!), while the likes of NNTP servers at any NNTP service provider and many ISP's have been seemingly duping the dopes at the RIAA and MPA for much longer.
Of course, this could all change once the end users are put in jail (the remaining Americans that are not locked up will of course see our taxes go up to house the millions of Americans put in prison for their P2P actitivies while the MPA and RIAA complain then that no one is buying their stuff) and the only focus of their bordom and target for their inept business decisions is to blame the NNTP providers.
I find it insulting that not one of these bimbo's for both camps have not once entertained a critical interview, by and intelligent investigator, and in full lime-light for public discern. Of course, the MPA and RIAA doesn't want the horse's ass on television showing just how stupid they are. God, Fox could almost create a prime-time real-tv show on these kinds of interviews, and maybe they can call the the show Donkey TV. | |
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join:2002-09-27
Walkersville, MD | Oh your right that file trading has been going on for a long time before P2P. I ran a BBS back in the 80's, file trading was just as prevalent then as it is now just it has more media attention now. I remember when Sierra and the like were crying a river saying "with all the software piracy going on we will not be able to stay a competitive company" hmm look at all the software companies around today. If you offer a good product worth buying people will buy it period.
I prefer to buy my software and music now just because I like to have the security of an legal copy when I need to upgrade or what have you, but I CAN NOT stand RIAA or any group that is circumventing the constitution by swaying senators and congressmen who have no idea what they are doing or the impact that they are going to have on our future privacy. If the RIAA's facts are right the music industry should have been bankrupt weeks....no years ago.
It is a sad day in America when we are wasting millions of dollars in court trying to coerce an ISP into releasing the names of it's customers to a PRIVATE organization, what a laugh it would be if this horrible person who it would seem warrants the death penalty or at least exile to a small country where the locals only speak pig Latin and wipe with one hand and eat with the other, turns out to be a 10 year old "pirate".;) | |
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