My firewall logs are showing pings from within the mp3.com network ( 208.48.67.12, 208.48.67.17, 208.48.67.60 and so on) I searched google.com with those addresses, and I see that other people are being pinged too.

If I don't run a Gnutella client for a while, the pings slack off to once a day. Right now, I'm logging several a minute. Since MP3.com belongs to some label (Vivendi Universal) I am suspicious of their intent.

Perhaps RIAA or Vivendi or mp3.com are trying to keep track of people using Gnutella?

What they could do? Arrest us all? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.....HAH!

uhh, maybe some of the people there just use gnutella...

wouldn't these be consistent with that?

maybe they're trying to find out how well their artists are doing, and what better way to determine popularity than by counting a track's appearances on gnutella?

Yes, this is surely more likely than a trial against us all. Eheh...