Hollywood and music biz are dead. Judge just ruled IP address is not an identifier.

from today's headlines-

---Viacom 2Q earnings up 56 percent--

http://news.yahoo.com/viacom-2q-earnings-56-percent-112719667--finance.html


heh..dead indeed..

there is many ways to identify what you actually doing online. provider can and do this all the time..check out your agreement verizon customers. there is also special section in your billing for it(illegal downloads). timing is everything(as usual). it was ok to download whatever with napster 10 years ago,but i wouldn't do it today. specially, if you do have nice sum of cash sitting on your brokerage or banking account.
 
Quote from Publicus:

All movies, music were free before this on The Pirate Bay. But now, no legal action can be taken against you, even if the courts could track your download to an IP address (which is like the "phone number" of your computer).

Download as much as you like.

Do NOT be the last guy on your block still paying for movies and music!

http://torrentfreak.com/judge-an-ip-address-doesnt-identify-a-person-120503/
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I've seen that pirate bay. Its not just music/movies that people download. Its all sorts. Operating systems, adobe creative suite products, rosetta stone language software, games for your xbox, wii, playstation, apps for your iphone, android, ect. In a few hours, you could download $10,000+ worth of programs.

But before you all rush over to go there, remember one thing...its NOT free. Oh yeah...its free to download, but its a little like russian roulette. You download from the wrong person and you get a virus that crashes your computer, or searches your computer for your credit card information, or maybe even puts some new age spyware on your computer and gets your trading account number and password and they log into your account, and place an order to buy 5 million shares of some low volume stock that is trading for a penny while they have their sell order set at 2 or 3 cents making you basically transfer your account to theirs.

So there it is...russian roulette. You could get lucky 5 out of 6 times, but that 1 time it going to cause you such a problem, that its really not worth it.
 
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