Or maybe they know they can sue 1 pirate $6000 per song they find s/he shared.

So $34000000 for 5000 files?

That is 34000000/5000 == $6800 per file.

That was some really expensive music!

hotfile is booming…

Too bad Hotfile sucks. The download speeds are even slower than Rapidshare and they make you wait even longer between downloads.

Solution:
Pack the files in an archive with strong encryption. And do that TWICE so that people who don’t know the password will only see one single archive within an archive. Better yet, do it thrice or more if needed.

You don’t need to encrypt twice to hide the filenames, Rar has an option to encrypt the filenames as well. Without the password, it looks like an empty archive.

Keep telling yourself that bro..

You missed my point completely.. if you think that the government is going to allow such encrypted communication after WW2.. you are out of your mind..

Im not a conspiracy nut.. or somebody who thinks they know everything.. but im pretty sure FCC regulations doesn’t allow for any official encryption method that they don’t have control over.. its just not going to happen no matter how super secret you think everything is. We are all slaves to the government.

Its the same reason why they can triangulate cell phones.. or even find a cb radio..

Again.. the effort it would take for them to do it would be incredible.. not to mention the politics involved.. but don’t kid yourself.

It would need super-duper computer to brute-force a multi-layered encrypted archive. That’ll surely slow them down and show that content filtering useless.

114 Jun 25, 2009 at 10:55 by @99

e-diot, swiss isn’t in schengen space.

Switzerland joined the bloc’s passport-free travel zone, the Schengen Area, in December 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area

We need to stop this. Both of us. We’ve got it so, so wrong about filesharing and piracy. Why didn’t the RIAA tell us? I never got an email, fax, text, or anything! I mean, first they give us this list of sites to harass and troll and then they just leave us dangling. I’ve had enough. I could never really believe their piracy BS anyway. There is only so much lying you can do before it just gets so boring and repetitive, hehe, but you don’t need me to tell YOU that eh, neostyles? I know it’s a drag for you too having to lie every day and pretend it’s stealing.

I just think there’s other scams out there we could pull instead of this RIAA one. They don’t even pay me that much. I might go into phishing emails I think.

The problem is the government owns every algorithm to every encryption.. I know someone who works for a company that specializes in tapping and such.. the government technically has control over everything.. but of course the logistics of actually using such power is beyond complicated..

in any event.. they CAN get into any encryption. I know its besides your point.. because lets face it, its not going to happen.. but its worth noting.

See – this is the kind of comment that shows how little understanding you actually have! It does not matter one little bit if they know the algorhithm – without the RANDOM key which it would take decades or more to crack there is no way to look at the contents of the file! No government can crack it as you are describing.

A 20 digit password using A-Z and 0-9 without lowercase or punctuation would have 20^36 combinations (more if you count all the passwords under 20 characters since they would not know the password length!) – this would take thousands of years to break using brute force!

Probably not since most of them spend their entire days taking advantage of people’s trust.

Taking advantage of peoples’ trust? How is filesharing taking advantage of peoples’ trust?

Have you resorted to claiming things at random, now?

Pirates are exploiting every legitimate system for piracy, criminalizing them (those system)in the process.

Considering that piracy itself isn’t a criminal offense, it’s entirely impossible for piracy to criminalize a legitimate system. Let alone anything. Please come back when you have a better grip on the reality, the law, and the English langauge as a whole.

As usual people on the internet don’t listen to this, because anonymity makes people feel untouchable

Ah, I see. Is that why you don’t listen to anything? Because your anonymity makes feel untouchable, you little coward?

Quick hint: Unless your parents named you Neo Styles, you’re just as anonymous as the rest of us. It’s rather amusing to watch you accuse other people of “hiding behind the Internet”.

You people are ruining the services you enjoy through your own shortsightedness.

Enjoy Rapidshare?

Dear God.

Does anybody actually enjoy Rapidshare? Personally, I think the Internet would be a much better place if RS vanished tomorrow, but either way, the court ruling is still a farce.

(Disclaimer: I’m not the real neostyles. Sadly you aren’t watching him argue with himself in a fit of schizophrenia. I’m just using his name because it deeply, deeply annoys him :D)

[quote]Re: 82, 4nd;

“Actually, first off, a message to everyone here: If you’re going to secure your files for p2p, can you find a way to do it that doesn’t involve .rar? Not everybody out there runs Windows and has WinRAR…”[/quote]

There are Rar unpackers for Mac and Linux as well, available right from the official Rar site. They’re command line versions, but a quick search shows that there are GUI front ends available for both of them, as well as native GUI programs that will unpack Rar files on both OS’s.

If only Windows users could unpack Rar files, don’t you think there would be a lot more complaints about its use than there are now?

What do you care? You don’t consume media etc anyways you have no need for a site of this nature..

your only complaint that i found to have any merit is that artist do not get compensated by file sharing. As i have stated before i believe the pledge system is the answer to this problem. the following article has more information concerning that.

http://www.digitalproductions.co.uk/index.php?id=197

but i have come to believe that you have a personal stake in this argument and that greed is your driving force not the good of society. you will ignore any argument that does not support your greed. therefore i fully expect you to say that artist should have a right to “own” idea’s and that we are trying to take there right’s even though it they are really priviledges and the public is the one being deprived. hence this will be my last message to you unless you actually show that you have considered an alternative to traditional copyright

Go Rapidshare!!!!

Fight the power!!

logon to:

http://www.crackedsoftwares.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=8116

100 Jun 25, 2009 at 00:54 by Anonymous

I hate Rapidshare but isn’t it illegal for a court to order the impossible to be done?

Here is the funny thing about law, it is only illegal if the law say it is if there is no provision for that effect no it is not.

The Schengen Agreement may explain why germans can get to swiss territory LoL

It is not just about copyright in this instance is about a lot of things that people could do to servers like rapidshare and other types of service, people will destroy the foundations of something and doesn’t matter to them if the thing have good uses or not.

And that is why people are slowly but surely moving to decentralized anonymous encrypted networks where there is no chance someone could stop anything, it will be and internet on top of the internet, where people will do all they can legally in one and switch to the other to do those things that they are forbidden.

For good or for bad privacy will prevail in the internet if for anything else just because the number of technicians against the institutions it is far way bigger than the ones the institutions employ and sympathizers.

Why does a court in Hamburg have jurisdiction over a Swiss company (Rapidshare Switzerland)? And isn’t this really a suit against Rapidshare Switzerland’s parent corporation in the USA?

This strikes me as venue shopping.

Basically, I don’t understand how a German court has jurisdiction here. Shouldn’t this belong with the WTO under the Berne Convention?

Actually, first off, a message to everyone here: If you’re going to secure your files for p2p, can you find a way to do it that doesn’t involve .rar? Not everybody out there runs Windows and has WinRAR…

Both Mac and Windows have free archiving apps available. The PC has 7zip, for example, and Mac OS comes with it’s own archiving utility. Obviously, both basically support every archive format in existence, including .RAR and .ZIP.

You sure love to generalize. You do it in all your posts. It’s fascinating how ignorant you are of the concept of civilized discussion. But I’ll play along. Whose trust is being taken advantage of? When I download a file, I doubt I’m going behind the back of the uploader. I never see notices that say “I am placing this torrent on TPB, but nobody except my close friends is allowed to download it.”

I assumed that part was clear. If you were an open minded person, and thought about things beyond pirates and their needs, the answer would present itself : Society. Society trusts that you pay for your things and provide the content creators with the compensation you are OBLIGATED to contribute.

How would you know unless you use it? And if you use it, it would therefore follow that you use it extensively for piracy.

Wow. Worst. logic. ever. Do you need do do drugs yourself to know that people are doing them?

Uh, here’s a thought. Maybe I go to sites, where material is offered up for download on rapidshare.

I love how you’re contradicting me on something that is actually stated in the article. It shows you’re just contradicting me for the sake of it.

The only thing I’ve ever downloaded from RS are mod files for PC games that my friends made.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=blogspot+rapidshare&aq=&oq=&aqi=g3&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g9&fp=leBsIIJAIN0
http://rapidsharemovieblog.blogspot.com/

I guess it stands to show that not everyone uses a given service legitimately, and more importantly, that the user base of people who pursue that simple fact is enormous.

Oh, dear God, you’re starting to come around! I think I may just faint.

I think you may have intentionally misinterpreted that part. I was very clear. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the nature of filesharing. But the way many people have used to it to indulge their greed and laziness at the expense of copyright holders is definitely a problem.

Did you design BT? How do you know what it was made for?

I was talking about rapidshare, but either works. Nothing about Bram Cohen, the creator of bittorrent indicated that his intentions were to create a means for people to violate copyright. Most people also generally have a natural tendency to stay with in the bounds of the law, criminals and pirates aside.

http://www.bittorrent.com/

They ares sponsored by every major movie studio. I doubt that would be the case if they were recreationally crossing paths with the law.

Yawn, more generalizing and more of you telling people what’s right and wrong… we’re bored of it. Come up with something new.

Taking something that’s not yours, while not contributing to the creator or the development of the product you enjoy is fundamentally morally wrong. There’s no avoiding it.

Right, I’m totally letting everyone’s uptime go up just so I can download a song. Stop generalizing.

What……?

I dont think you get it. When legal pressure is increased against RS, they have to take whatever action is necessary to protect their business. If this means, unarchived every uploaded .ZIP or .RAR and checking it for copyrighted material, they will do it. Havent you ever used youtube?

71

Disregard that, I suck cocks.

Thank you for proving my point that pirates resort to insults when confronted and hide behind their internet connection.

neofag

As if I really needed any more proof that pirates are immature..

BTW, I wonder why a swiss company should give a f**k about a court decision from germany.

There’s this thing called countries cooperating with each other. Every countr that’s part of the World Trade Organisation is bound by copyright laws. Yeah, that includes sweden.

I really am writing that list of Things Neostyles Doesn’t Understand About Filesharing and I will be uploading it somewhere soon.

LOL
Go ahead. If it helps you validate yourself, go for it.

Rapidshare was originally German, it used to be rapidshare.de but their main advertiser cut them b/c of piracy “problem”. So they renamed it to rapidshare.com.

I pay ~30-50 USD a year on ebay for RS accounts, and it gets me a ~2MB connection to almost any file imaginable. Rapidshare is worth the premium costs, but not if their going to be filter nazis.