If you are using Kazaa... STOP!

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If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - Anhil8tor - 07-27-2005

Four Acadiana residents are facing a federal lawsuit from record companies for illegally downloading copyrighted music from artists such as Jon Bon Jovi, Outkast, Korn and Usher onto their computers.

They are part of the latest wave of lawsuits filed in June by the Recording Industry Association of America against 784 people across the country. The unknown downloaders were originally listed as John Does until the RIAA was able to subpoena Internet service providers for their names.

Named in this week's suits are two Opelousas residents, Delonda Batiste and Frederick Campbell, and two Eunice residents, Jason Paul Castro and Glenn Credeur.

All four used Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file sharing network, to download hundreds of songs, according to court records.

The record companies are demanding that the four stop downloading and sharing the music files. The defendants could be forced to pay thousands of dollars in restitution.

Previous settlements in similar cases have reportedly been between $3,500 and $4,500.

These new cases follow the January lawsuit against Opelousas police Officer Cleveland Thomas, who allegedly downloaded more than 2,000 songs from Kazaa. Thomas, Acadiana's first named defendant in a downloading lawsuit, said at the time that RIAA representatives had offered him a chance to avoid a lawsuit by paying $3,000, but he didn't have the money.

The RIAA has filed a total of 12,500 such lawsuits across the country since September 2003, said spokeswoman Jenni Engebresten. At least 141 of those have been against Louisiana residents.

To date, about 2,800 cases have been settled.

Engebresten said there is no specific number of downloaded songs that can prompt attention from the RIAA.

"Under the law, uploading or downloading even one song is illegal," Engebresten said. "That said, our efforts to date have primarily focused on the egregious offenders - those who are downloading hundreds or thousands of files and offering them to millions of anonymous users."

Two of the downloaders, Batiste and Credeur, had fewer than 1,000 downloaded files, according to court documents. Several of the files listed, however, were not music files.

Castro and Campbell had more than 3,000 downloaded files, but many of those were also not music files.

Their musical tastes spanned across several genres. Batiste had many songs by American Idol contestants, including Fantasia Barrino, LaToya London and George Huff. Credeur favored Dashboard Confessional and punk rock bands.

Castro's and Campbell's playlists included hip-hop and rap artists such as Missy Elliot, Janet Jackson and Ice Cube.

None of the four named in the lawsuit were available for comment by phone Tuesday.

If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - PurpleHaze - 07-27-2005

Ya, two people in my town that I know just got busted for that stuff. Scary.

If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - Anhil8tor - 07-27-2005

:wub:

hey PH!

If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - PurpleHaze - 07-27-2005

Hi 8.

:wub:

If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - VitaminE - 07-27-2005

My wife will freak if I get busted for all of the gay porn I've been downloading and sharing.

If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - Anhil8tor - 07-27-2005

VitaminE Wrote:My wife will freak if I get busted for all of the gay porn I've been downloading and sharing.

4nd...

i don't use kazza though

If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - Bill - 07-27-2005

newsgroups is where it's at. nuff said.

If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - VitaminE - 07-27-2005

Bearshare here.

If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - leeman - 07-27-2005

Fidonet ..... Huh

If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - TomFoolery - 07-27-2005

If I downloaded music, I would probably use a bit torrent site such as

http://www.torrentspy.com or

http://www.torrentreactor.net

I'd probably use them with a program called Shareaza (http://www.shareaza.com) too.

But I don't download music, so this post is pointless.

If you are using Kazaa... STOP! - Ntype - 07-27-2005

that would suck to be caught for having downloaded some britney spear, or american idol.

anyway Fuck the Majors, they want us to believe that we are "stealing" while it's them that are stealing from the autors.

the suck. fuck them