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To shreds, you say?
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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.
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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.)
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cool.
I mean for my friend.
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I have a friend who was considering that too.
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You guys can't afford to pay 99 cents for your tunes? That's pretty sad.
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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.
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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?
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Every time you steal a song, the RIAA kills a kitten. Think about that!
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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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Pier to pier?
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To get from Pier to pier, you have to sale.
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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
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