But still, it's not very smart.

Honestly, iTunes isn't that bad. The D/L speeds are great, and hour-long TV shows are only 2 bucks!

You're entirely wrong about the RIAA not being able to monitor your downloads, by the way... especially through file sharing software, and most definitely through Bittorrent.

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whats riaa?

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They are the people the sue you if u get caught on the filesharing networks!

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It's the front for American music corperations to sue you for using thier music in an illegal way.

Recording Industry Association of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

@06300M

That's a load of bull crap. If you can see what someone is uploading, it is 10 times easier to see what they are downloading. And encryption? Hell yes. It can be cracked, and brought to court as evidence against you. Oh, and the open wifi thing? Guess what! LIES! The only reason that case got away with it is because the guy was able to prove that it wasn't him though the log files on his router. Those same log files were used in another case against someone who was file sharing.

Here's a simple rule to remember about file sharing: There is no such thing as untracible file sharing. I help monitor the network at a my old highschool from my own computer 300 miles away. Without knowing anything more then the i.p. address range of the school computers, I can figure out who was looking at what, when, and from which computer (I'm just looking for the people who try to look at porn, but I've identified computers filesharing and ones that were connected to botnets). If I can do that, then the true pros at the RIAA can do far more when it comes to figuring out your surfing habits and what you are sharing.

Next time, don't just listen to some idiot on youtube, and ask your nearest computer guru. He'll tell you exactly what I am saying now.

P.S. I'm voting this thread for closure. Have a nice day.

P.P.S. I recomend looking at this site: P2P Safe File Sharing Tips.
Please not that it specificly says that there are ways to make sharing safer, but to way to compleatly prevent prosicution by the RIAA.

P.P.P.S. 2 students at UCSD were sued last year for sharing one file. That's right, just one file.

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Here is the original link to info about it.

The Wireless Weblog: Don't Want to Get Sued by the RIAA? Just Disable Wi-Fi Security!

EDIT: Oh, cool! It auto-adds titles! AWESOME!

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On a side note:

My favorite music download program is google. ^_^

Try looking for:

anything +(mp3|wma|wav|wmv|avi) +intitle:"index.of/" +inurlhtml|htm|php) +name +"last modified" +size +description

^_^

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If you do use a P2P only dl songs pics and vids. Check the file extension before you DL. I was downloading an app on LimeWire 3 months ago and my computers been down ever since. Im gonna have it fixed this week, until then im posting from my psp...