Huge fine for US music downloader

Firstly the headline is incorrect. It should read "Huge fine for US illegal music online distributor". As far as I am aware it is legal to provide music or iTunes and all the other would not exist.

The music industry are trying to stop people who illegally distribute artist's copyrighted material via the internet. However my blog today is not the legal aspect but a reminder to all those non-techie people out there that whatever software you are using to download music from e.g. Kazaa just ensure that it is not using your My Documents folder to upload music and ensure you exit the software when you are finished or ensure that it is not set-up to allow access to your Music folder under the My Documents folder or any other folder you purchase music for downloading from...

I would like to close by saying that I do not condone the sharing of copyright material.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Huge fine for US music downloader

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Pot and kettle, how does that saying go...

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And the point is?

BBC NEWS | Business | Illegal downloaders 'face UK ban' What a ridiculous idea. How exactly are they suppose to do this? Hire more staff? That is going to up the cost of broadband and how exactly are they going to spot out of millions of connections who is downloading music and films. Software tool? Can always be worked around. Large file download, break it down to small sizes or use bittorrant. How is it going to detect a Linux OS download? How will it get into a peer to peer connection? Will the RIP Act be re-written for ISP to snoop? Powered by ScribeFire .

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