RIAA to file swappers: Let?s chat. The recording industry is turning file-swappers' own tools against them with a new campaign that will send warnings to people who are offering copyrighted materials online.

"It appears that you are offering copyrighted music to others from your computer," the message will read in part. "Distributing or downloading copyrighted music on the Internet without permission from the copyright owner is ILLEGAL?When you offer music on these systems, you are not anonymous and you can easily be identified."

[CNET News.com]

You can easily be identified? Like How? IP Numbers? (Think NAT and dial-up) Handles, emails? Don't make me laugh. Perhaps they will catch a few offenders and they will decide to get drastic. Mark my words Freenet is coming. Another option is to have an open Wireless for all your neighbors... The RIAA will have to check several computers carefully to discover who is the AstroBoy that was sharing hundreds of songs. But lying will not help the RIAA, they would do so much better preassuring artists and labels to sell online...

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