Comments on: How the RIAA finds music pirates, and stupid-proof ways to beat it

By: Amanda Berry

Amanda Berry — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:50:43 +0000

Another way to share music and videos is to buy and sell on auction sites such as eBay. Obviously although ripping copies for yourself is still not legal. Buying and selling legitimate originals is, and can in some cases even be profitable. So I don’t really see how harassing people who use P2P actually achieves anything in terms of preventing piracy, when the free market itself offers a means for people to share media freely and people have the physical means to rip personal copies.

By: dude

dude — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:12:53 +0000

tell them it sucks on performance and gives viruses. Because it does both. Most feel clever using it but its not its just lame even if it did have a “legal” use it just sucks so badly.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:50:28 +0000

I have a shop here in NC where I fix computers. 6-10 times they have limewire and apparently download music illegally. I tell them to uninstall it, because it is a good way to mess up your computer, and that downloading music this way is illegal. But probably most of them don’t care and get a virus the next day :-\