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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by innocent_bystander:
As for the RIAA employing people to use gnutella and download mp3's to use as evidence against an individual, just who is breaking the law? OK, i made the file available, but they initiated the download, re-compiled the file and were then able to play the copyrighted music.
I think the reason they haven't done anything to gnutella yet (the napster drama has been going on for ages...) is that, at this point, they don't know how to, legally. Thats why things like worms embedded in files and distributed by the industry seems like a more likely, clandestine scenario to me. Pretty scary, but would they dare? I doubt it. I guess we'll see.</font>
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Umm ... that would make you the criminal. It's their copyrighted material, remember? They can do whatever they want with it. As long as they're not sending you emails begging you to share the files, they're not entrapping you, they're just catching you. And they have done this before.
This is exactly how Metallica got users banned by Napster. They downloaded copyrighted material, recorded the name of the user, and sent the list to Napster, who, as required by law, banned the users from their service. Again, this is the law. If you share copyrighted material via the net, the owner of the copyright has the right to have you shut down. If you don't like it, write your congressman or congresswoman. Whining here doesn't help matters any.
Oh ... and as for embedding worms in files and releasing them, I'm not sure that you could successfully code a worm into an .mp3 file ... that would require your .mp3 player to do some pretty strange things, and I just don't see it happening. You could do with an .exe file, but anyone ignorant and/or stupid enough to open an .exe file downloaded from a network like the gnutella network deserves what he/she gets.