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I knew it was just a matter of time! Finally the Actions of the RIAA and other agencies are hammering away at the peer program users. So if you have a peer program in your arsenal think long and hard about how you use the program.
Below is a clip of an article:
STOCKHOLM -
The entertainment industry won round one Friday in a legal battle against file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, with guilty verdicts and one-year prison sentences handed down to four men accused of running and financing the popular site.
The defendants vowed to appeal, setting the stage for a lengthy copyright dispute between music and movie corporations and an online swap shop they say has deprived them of billions of dollars in lost revenue.
In its landmark ruling, the Stockholm district court convicted Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom of helping millions of users illegally download music, movies and computer games.
All four received one-year terms and were ordered to pay damages of 30 million kronor ($3.6 million) to entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI and Columbia Pictures.
“We can’t pay and we won’t pay,” Sunde said in a defiant video clip posted on the Internet. Mockingly, he held up a hand-scribbled “I owe U” note to the camera. “This is as close as you will get to having money from us,” Sunde said.
With an estimated 22 million users, The Pirate Bay has become the entertainment industry’s enemy No. 1 after successful court actions against file-swapping sites such as Grokster and Kazaa.
Lundstrom helped finance the site while the three other defendants administered it.
Defense lawyers had argued the quartet should be acquitted because The Pirate Bay doesn’t host any copyright-protected material. Instead, it provides a forum for its users to download content through so-called torrent files. The technology allows users to transfer parts of a large file from several different users, increasing download speeds.
The court found the defendants guilty of helping users commit copyright violations by providing a Web site with “sophisticated search functions, simple download and storage capabilities, and through the tracker linked to the Web site.”
The case focused on dozens of works that the prosecutor said were downloaded illegally. They included songs by the Beatles, Robbie Williams and Coldplay, movies such as “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and computer games including “World of Warcraft — Invasion.”
Judge Tomas Norstrom told reporters that the site was “commercially driven,” which the defendants have denied.
John Kennedy, the head of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, called the verdict good news for anyone “who is making a living or a business from creative activity and who needs to know their rights will be protected by law.”
The Pirate Bay had assured users the trial wouldn’t affect the site, and it remained operational after the verdict. Authorities temporarily shut it down in May 2006 after seizing servers and computer equipment during raids in several locations in Sweden. But it soon reappeared, running on servers elsewhere.
Andre Rickardsson, a computer expert and former investigator for the Swedish security police, said the ruling could encourage the entertainment industry to threaten Internet operators with lawsuits unless they block access to the site.
File-sharing wouldn’t go away, he added, but users would likely turn to more advanced technological tools to hide their activities.
“It’s not as if people will turn around and say ‘oops, I’ll have to stop file-sharing now.’ Instead the reaction will be ‘oops, what can I do to protect myself from getting caught’.”
Sunde’s lawyer Peter Althin said he was confident that higher courts would dismiss the case against The Pirate Bay, which he described as a battle between the corporate world and “a generation of young people who want to take part of new technology.”
The verdict comes as Europe debates stricter rules to crack down on those who share content illegally on the Internet.
Last week French legislators rejected a plan to cut off the Internet connections of people who illegally download music and films, but the government plans to resurrect the bill for another vote this month.
Opponents said the legislation would represent a Big Brother intrusion on civil liberties, while the European Parliament last month adopted a nonbinding resolution that defines Internet access as an untouchable “fundamental freedom.”
Earlier this month, Sweden introduced a new law that makes it easier to prosecute file-sharers because it requires Internet Service Providers to disclose the Internet Protocol-addresses of suspected violators to copyright owners.
The country of 9 million has one of Europe’s highest rates of Internet penetration, but has also gained a reputation as a hub for file-sharers.
Statistics from the Netnod Internet Exchange, an organization measuring Internet traffic in Sweden, suggested that daily online activity dropped more than 40 percent after the law took effect on April 1.
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Associated Press Writer Karl Ritter contributed
For the past 4 weeks I have been trying to get back to the OpenOffice tutorial, but have not been able due to the barrage of corrupted systems. There are many people out there asking how to use and install the P2P programs to their systems then shortly there after they ask how to fix their systems. Maybe you have heard of some of these programs? Limewire is the name of one such program. Here is just one example of what a user can face by using such an application:
Almost 500,000 people have unintentionally downloaded an adware bundle from file-sharing networks in the past week, security firm McAfee says, with ugly consequences.
Disguised as a music file or popular movies, the phony file is circulating on the eDonkey and Limewire networks. It asks users to install a codec to play the file, and then overwhelms them with popup ads, the BBC reports., the phony file is circulating on the eDonkey and Limewire networks. It asks users to install a codec to play the file, and then overwhelms them with popup ads, the BBC reports. This is dated 5/8/08.
(This is a humorous statement ((unintentionally)) the user initiated the download!!!)
No longer is it even important what such a program does behind the scenes. It is clearly apparent that just using the program is going to cause the user problems. Either directly through the program itself or as a result of what the user acquires online. Similar things can happen without a P2P program but the chances are geometrically higher by using the program because these systems attempt to operate in and underground fashion. Anyone can post any corrupted or uncorrupted file for access by the users with impunity.
I have a friend that swears by limewire and says he has never had a problem just downloading mp3 files. It is just a matter of time before his system will be wrecked.
A blurb about security
We have a list of over 46 file sharing programs only 8 of them are capable of providing anonymity. What does that mean? Anybody can see what you are doing and in some cases directly access your hard drive. Some of these programs will give the user a major headache trying to remove them. Morpheus is one example here are a few interesting things about it:
Restrictions on permitted removal methods. Purported grant of permission to remove other programs. Failure to disclose certain information collected.
The license discloses collection of “certain … non-personally identifiable information,” and the license lists some examples of such information (“your Internet protocol (IP) address, your domain, your operating system, your browser version“). The license fails to mention that the software also transmits an inventory of numerous registry entries (their presence or absence, and their values if present), including information about other “adware” programs as well as certain security programs.
- Rather than an ordinary entry in Control Panel’s Add/Remove listing, the uninstall procedure requires downloading a removal program from a web site, running that program, and typing a special code into a dialog box.
- The license purports to grant the right to “automatically repair or reinstall the Software if any third party application attempts to delete, disable or modify the Software” — seemingly referring to any removal procedure other than the official removal procedure. If a user turns to a program like Ad-Aware to remove the software, thereby avoiding the convoluted uninstall procedure, this text claims that the software may reinstall itself.
- The URL given in the license agreement, purportedly the address of the uninstaller, is in fact a broken link. The link omits the “www” host name necessary, as to the specific domain at issue, in order to retrieve the uninstaller.
Begging is not my strong point but I beg all the system users out there to delete these programs from their systems. I make plenty of money without dealing with the aftermath of these programs.
By the way, when someone brings me their system and I see any of these programs on the system the fee is automatically doubled.
