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I heard about that over at (please don't flame me! ) MacAddict Forums. Can they get around firewalls and stuff?

Isn't the below the same thing?
http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... adid=26618

IIRC, this morning i read that there's a Madonna "MP3" where she asks something like, "WTF do you think you're doing", and then erases all MP3s from your HD. This really is starting to get silly IMO.

like i said i forsee many deaths in the future for these people
some crazy mp3 sharing guy is gonna be bankrupted then go on a 9mm rampage

too much.. I'm sure by the time it actually is out there, most will be warned, and the "hackers" will have already created a program you can download that will detect the "piracy protectors" and let you know before you ever get a chance to run them..

I would say that most virus scanners will be able (when updated) to detect anything they dish out. If not then what eGoCeNTRoNiX said.

Originally posted by MegaVectra
I would say that most virus scanners will be able (when updated) to detect anything they dish out.

We can only pray. Personally, i think it's time to consider making some offline backups of my MP3s.

I have 40 gigs of mp3's 70-80% of them i have ripped from my own cd's... I don't know how these fucks think they can get away with an invasion or privacy which in most ways it is... it they put out a virus to detect mp3's and delete them it has to search for them and you know they'll have it report home saying what was on there... i'd love to have one of the fucktards knock on my door with a warrant then hand him the 700+ cd's we have here in the house and tell him to have fun finding not a fucking thing illegal...

Originally posted by PreDatoR
I have 40 gigs of mp3's 70-80% of them i have ripped from my own cd's... I don't know how these fucks think they can get away with an invasion or privacy which in most ways it is... it they put out a virus to detect mp3's and delete them it has to search for them and you know they'll have it report home saying what was on there... i'd love to have one of the fucktards knock on my door with a warrant then hand him the 700+ cd's we have here in the house and tell him to have fun finding not a fucking thing illegal...

You may have a point. The RIAA views things a little differently. When people are connected via P2P software, they are sharing mp3's that they themselves might actually own with others who do not.

The only way to stop the sharing of 1's and 0's is to shut down the internet. I don't see that happening anytime soon.

In all honesty, when was the last time any of you actually pruchased a cd? I havn't for a few years. I open the track list at CDNOW.com in one window and download the highest quality tracks I can find via Kazza in another, then burn it. I also have friends that buy CDs, that I borrow and burn exact copies.

I've purchased only one cd in the last 2 years. Just bugs me that you have to spend $15-$20 for a music cd, and you have no idea what all the tracks sound like, which is why I liked to download before I purchase. What is really funny is when Napster was king, there was no impact on cd sales. Since then, I've heard that sales are down greater than 10%. I guess the RIAA does not believe in recession.

I forgot where I read it last year that the RIAA wanted to collect money for users that sell used music cd's. LOL Can you believe that one?

actually, i just bought 2 the other day the new 311 cd and foo fighters one by one
first thing i did with them was burn a backup for car use (cd's tend to get tossed around in the car, and riped them to 192kps mp3;s to shuffle into my music collection to listen to ewhen im working on the net or hanging at fine places like PCA, But the riaa doesnt want us to 1;1 backup our cd's to digital or other format, if they get f-ed up they want us to buy a new one, give me a break, ive bought undertow by tool 3 times , and Dark side of the moon once on vinyl 2 times on cassette and once on cd.. ill be damned if im gonna buy another copy before downloading.. Its all about money and control..they are losing both, just imagine what real artists (sorry britney, your outa luck) will be able to do in 10 years when the internet can market and distribute there releases for little$ and the money will go to them instead of 90% to riaa and label...

I still get a lot of cd's through BMG at half the cost of the stores... i don't have a problem buying cd's as long as the music is good. when someone kicks out a new album i hear so so reviews of it.... i'll download the whole album listen to it... if i like it i'll buy the cd if not i'll keep the couple decent songs and delete the rest... I wonder if they would just stop and think that maybe people are tired of buying shit and thats why their downloading then just maybe they'd make the artists put out something worth listening to so people WOULD buy their cd's...