For those who FTP

[Calpitor]

Verizon Must Reveal Name of Alleged Online Pirate (http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1572591)
With Verizon losing this verdict will you allow it to affect your file sharing habits?

[ProfessorU]

One of these is going to end up in the Supreme Court, where the broad scope of powers provided to the industry by the DCMA will be ruled unconstitutional. Until then, we suffer. Even some of the congressmen who passed this law recently publicly admitted it may have been a bad decision. God bless Verizon. I have never heard anything negative about the company, but I'm much more likely to work with them now. If that guy had AOL he would be in court already, "so we can let them know that what they are doing is illegal."

[f117nighthawk]

Try as they might, the RIAA will never successfully eliminate P2P. File sharing is here to stay!

[Chuck Mielke]

The only files I share are ones I have already downloaded from the Internet. I have dozens of music CDs, and I'm not ever planning to share those.

Most of the files I have DL'd are oldies that you can't find in the stores anyway. Probably the first one I DL'd was Wheels, an instrumental from 1952 or 1962, that I had ordered from Barnes and Noble, and it was unavailable for purchase.

I've never DL'd any Rap, Black Rap, or CRap, and don't intend to.

[NeoGeek]

Legality aside, people have had a taste of music on demand, and will settle for nothing less from any legitimate service. Any song anytime.The record companies must provide a single reasonably priced source for any music one might ask for. Users must also have reasonable control over the files as well, i.e. burning and other portablility. Until this happens ( and the entrenched suits don't seem very interested in this) the P2P clients will continue to thrive, and the RIAA will continue to sue. By the way, Hilary Rosen tendered her resignation as RIAA top hired gun. (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/01/22/2324241.shtml?tid=)

[104456]

It strange that a judge should agree with the subpoena whan no evidence of an illegal act has been provided to the court to back the decision.