From the article quoted:
In a subpoena addressed to MIT, the association is demanding the name, address, and phone number of a student who used the nickname ''crazyface'' to download at least five songs, including Radiohead's ''Idioteque'' and Dave Matthews Band's ''Ants Marching.''
Hmmph. Dave, I guess you were right and they _are_ going that route. I have to admit that I'm surprised at that. Ah, well, time to teach my wife how to pull music from USENET instead! (I'd like to see the RIAA track _that_ on the client end, though they can certainly still go after file-posters.)
(The common thread so far seems to be Kazaa, which I don't use, but I don't want to be the guinea pig when they move on to SoulSeek and WinMX.)
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Originally posted by hot_pastrami
I am curious whether my recent use of P2P is actually illegal... I have been downloading all the songs from CDs which I already own, but are all scratched up and won't play without skipping. I paid for a digital copy of the music itself, so I should be entitled to replace the music with CD quality music when the media becomes unusable. Right? I dunno.
I suspect that you'd find that the RIAA would sue you whether you owned zero, one or fifteen copies of a given CD.