Don't Forget: "Six Strikes" Starts This Weekend

Dr. Eggman writes "If you don't recall, then Broadband/DSL Reports is here to remind us that ISPs around the U.S. will begin adhering to the RIAA/MPAA-fueled 'Six Strikes' agreement on July 1st. Or is it July 12th? Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and Cablevision are all counted among the participants. They will each introduce 'mitigation measures' against suspected pirates, including: throttling down connection speeds and suspending Web access."

Freenet is still here

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess most people will probably still avoid it until their first strike, but Freenet's still alive and shuffling many TB of data between the nodes without the possibility of monitoring.

https://freenetproject.org/

One word for ya: Streamripper

[Teresita]

1. Record innernets radio with streamripper, a free CLI app ported for Unix and Win32.
2. See how streamripper lays all the songs in your folder nice and neat with all the MP3 tag information intact.
3. Sort the folder on size in your favorite file manager and delete all the sub-megabyte commercials.
4. See how RIAA doesn't have a clue what's going on because it's like taping your songs on a boom box.
5. ????
6. Profit!

Glad I have RCN

[Immerial]

Sorry for all those folks that don't have any other option! This also the reason I keep turning down all those 'amazing' Comcast deals... look --> a whole year at $1/month. Yeah, great deal until RCN is out of business and I don't have another option.

Streamripper + Grooveshark

[Bananatree3]

Loadup your favorite songs with Grooveshark, queue Streamripper and voila. MP3s magically appear in your folders! No torrents required.

Make your vote count DON'T BUY SONY

[deanstyles]

I stopped buying anything with the Sony label years ago when they won a $250,000 suit against a 14 year old girl and her single mother on a disability pension for downloading a few songs. Unfortunately I already used up my vote so I couldn't stop buying when Sony when they recently jacked up prices on Whitney Houston music to cash in on her death. Start with the worst offenders in the RIAA/MPAA...put them out of business...then pick off the next. What they win in lawsuits they'll lose in sales. Sony used to be an innovative company with brilliant engineers and reliable products...then they fired their engineers and replaced them with lawyers...they figured they could make more money being copyright trolls...tell them they were wrong...vote with what you buy.

Re:One word for ya: Streamripper

[Teresita]

You know what they do to music these days? First of all, they use auto-tune to make it seem like Lindsey Lohan can actually stay on key, then they record the track so hot if you import it into Audacity it looks like a solid blob. All those square waves, that's clipping, but it makes the "artist" sound "edgy". When all the popular music is recorded like that, it doesn't matter if you get it at 64 kbps and listen with Dollar Store earbuds. So I go USENET for lossless, and to grab entire albums, including the cover art.

Re:Don't Forget: "Six Strikes" Starts This Weekend

[laederkeps]

How about a response about the resulting organized crime [b]with the purpose of skirting the prohibition[/b]?
It didn't so much change the alcohol culture as drive it underground.

Point of order, my friends

[sgt_doom]

Many people don't realize that AT&T, once broken up (at least on paper, never any data to support the actual owners financially divested), it has since reconstituted back into the original --- although "officially" Verizon is supposedly still a separate baby bell still --- on close examination, tracking all those threads of ownership through Vodafone and Racal, the majority ownership is still GE, which is indicative of the original ownership over a century ago!

My, how little actually seems to have changed?

Re:That's what they want

[dwillden]

Computers still have hard drives. It's not completely out of the question for the government to require consumers to report how much hard drive space is utilized for media storage, and charge a $/GB tax.

Oh yes it is completely out of the question. In the US at least it's called the 4th amendment. The government has no right or need to know what I have on my computer. Further how should the delineate between my own personal videos shot with my camera and movie files. Or the music I create, the music I buy and download, the music I buy and platform shift, and the music I pirate.