- RIAA Lawsuits for music sharing
- Posted by Ceci Powell on December 1st, 2003
If you are concerned about being targeted by the RIAA and its
music-sharing lawsuits, check out ShareControl™, the first
"self-policing" software designed to allow you to take control of the
music sharing capabilities on your computer, whether it's at home,
work or school. The application searches your hard drive for the most
popular music-sharing programs and reports the status of any programs
found (Sharing enabled or disabled), as well as all MP3 files. The
user can then decide whether to enable or disable the sharing
functionality, and to delete or retain the MP3 files. For more
information, visit http://www.music-amnesty.com.
- Posted by -=ô;ö=- on December 1st, 2003
No thanks, I can remove the files I wish to when I want to already, it is called 'Windows
Explorer'...
"Ceci Powell" <ceci@music-amnesty.com> wrote in message
news:c8b616e8.0311302202.63a08d1d@posting.google.c om...
| If you are concerned about being targeted by the RIAA and its
| music-sharing lawsuits, check out ShareControlT, the first
| "self-policing" software designed to allow you to take control of the
| music sharing capabilities on your computer, whether it's at home,
| work or school. The application searches your hard drive for the most
| popular music-sharing programs and reports the status of any programs
| found (Sharing enabled or disabled), as well as all MP3 files. The
| user can then decide whether to enable or disable the sharing
| functionality, and to delete or retain the MP3 files. For more
| information, visit http://www.music-amnesty.com.
- Posted by Slow Joe on December 1st, 2003
On 30 Nov 2003 22:02:21 -0800, ceci@music-amnesty.com (Ceci Powell)
wrote:
I checked it out. The website deliberately lies about the program.
The first page claims that ShareControl will find and identify illegal
music on your computer. Since the RIAA has repeatedly refused to
provide a comprehensive list of copyrighted tunes, that claim is hard
to accept. Digging farther into the site, it turns out that
ShareControl merely finds and displays mp3 files, without attempting
to identify which ones are copyrighted or even which ones are music,
nor does it search for any other format of music file.
Additionally, the site is selling this program. You have to pay money
before they let you download it. They claim that it will only run on
one computer. If you have two computers, you have to pay twice and
download the program twice.
Oh yeah, they advertise one free upgrade, too. I guess that would be
to update the non-existant RIAA copyright database.
The site claims that they are not affiliated in any way with the RIAA.
That, combined with the simple fact that their program won't do what
they advertise, tells me they are con artists, trying to make money
off people's ignorance and fear.
regards,
Joe
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It matters not how experienced you are, nor how dedicated to the task. If you're not having fun, you are doing it wrong.
- Posted by Slow Joe on December 1st, 2003
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:05:46 GMT, pokeeejoe@yahoo.com (Slow Joe)
wrote:
I forgot to mention...
The disclaimer on the site informs us that neither the presence of
ShareControl on your computer, nor the use of ShareControl provides
any legal protection from the RIAA.
Clearly, this is a scam.
regards,
Joe
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It matters not how experienced you are, nor how dedicated to the task. If you're not having fun, you are doing it wrong.
