pier to pier
 

*Let's say* you *had a friend* who frequented a *cafe* with free wifi, and that *friend* installed a program like limewire and downloaded all kinds of tunes, how might the riaa ever find that friend since the isp in question would point to the cafe. Or would it?

just wondering. Maybe lime wire is gone, I've been away a while.

You'll have an IP address from the cafe. The RIAA will know (it's easy to look up) that the address came from the cafe's ISP. They will have to get the ISP to cough up which of their customers had that address at that time, which will point back to the cafe. At that point the RIAA will shrug and find some lower-hanging fruit, or they'll send somebody to sit in the cafe and sniff the wireless network. (I'm betting a.)

cool.
I mean for my friend.

I have a friend who was considering that too.

You guys can't afford to pay 99 cents for your tunes? That's pretty sad.

Limewire is still alive and kicking. Though *my friend* prefers torrents because *he* can download entire albums with ease, and usually finds other songs *he* likes in addition to the one that spurred *him* to download in the first place.

Oh we can afford it silly, there's just other factors at work that encourage *my friend* to choose to download rather than pay for certain artists.

Choose to "steal" is what you should have said. How would you feel if you found out that one or more of your stolen songs had some of smoothmonikers work in it?

Every time you steal a song, the RIAA kills a kitten. Think about that!

Ok, choose to "steal, "pirate", etc. My take is: I enjoy the music, but I do not enjoy monetarily supporting the bigwigs and asshats in the music labels, RIAA, etc. My purchasing a CD from them is just another mojito on the beach for some overpaid exec who is jabbing away on the phone to his buddies about more DRM strategies to further put a stranglehold on the public's ability to use music files, while his bimbo of a wife is asking her tennis coach if she should get a boob job.

I do however love financially supporting independent and local artists who haven't let their work get prostituted out.

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:sniff: They would those bastards!

Pier to pier?

I thought it was ship to shore.

To get from Pier to pier, you have to sale. :cool:

Wait, I'm confused. Now I don't know whether to download music or masturbate.

By: Jimmy Buffett
1973
Lookin' back at my hard luck days
I really do have to laugh
Workin' in a dive for twenty six dollars
Spendin' it all on grass
We were hungry hard-luck heroes
Tryin' just to stay alive
We'd go down to the corner grocery
This is how we'd survive

Chorus:
Who's gonna steal the peanut butter
I'll get the can of sardines
Runnin' up and down the aisle of the Mini Mart
Stickin' food in our jeans
We never took more than we could eat
There was plenty left on the rack
We all swore if we ever got rich
We would pay the Mini Mart back
Yes sir! Yes sir!
We would pay the Mini Mart back

It was a two man operation
Had it all down on a note
Ricky would watch that big round mirror
And I'd fill up my coat
Then we'd head for the check-out aisle
With a lemon and a bottle of beer
Into the car, got to make it on home
Suppertime's getting near

Chorus:
So who's gonna steal the peanut butter
I'll get the can of sardines
Runnin' up and down the aisle of the Mini Mart
Stickin' food in our jeans
Never took more than we could eat
There was plenty left on the rack
We all swore if we ever got rich
We would pay the Mini Mart back
Yes sir! Yes sir!
We would pay the Mini Mart back

I guess every good picker has had some hard times
I sure had my share
It's really kinda funny to laugh at 'em now
But I don't want to go back there
So every now and then when I'm in the grocery
I'll take a little but not much
'Cause you never know when those hard times'll hitcha
And I don't want to lose my touch

Chorus:
So who's gonna steal the peanut butter
I'll get the can of sardines
Runnin' up and down the aisle of the Mini Mart
Stickin' food in our jeans
We never took more than we could eat
There was plenty left on the rack
We all swore if we ever got rich
We would pay the Mini Mart back
Yes sir! Yes sir!
We would pay the Mini Mart back
Yes sir, yes sir
We would pay the Mini Mart back

and:
http://www.archive.org/details/FluffersMakeMovies