For those who seldom read the newspapaer. Today, I saw this piece of news in the Strait Times.

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MUSIC file-swoppers in Singapore, take note. You could get into trouble if you're downloading songs illegally.
The Recodings Industry Association of Singapore (Rias) which protects the copyrights of artistes here, will be going after individuals for file-sharing violations.
Under the Singapore copyright law, a person caught distributing illegal MP3 files could be fined up too $100,000 and/or jailed for up to 5 years.
Rias had identified individual offenders, and had already taken legal action against some.
Illegal music downloads and file-sharing networks like KAZZA and MORPHEUS have been targeted by record companies recently in a high-profile drive.
More than 1,000 subpoenas, requiring Internet service providers to reveal the names of music swoppers, have been issued over the last 4 weeks.
Previous reports put the numbers of broadband subscribers here who reguarly download music at 500,000.
Add the fact that almost all the music files found on the internet are illegal copies, and the picture is of a large number of Singaporean who breach intellectual property laws. But Rias is working to change that.

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They're targeting individuals now. Got to be careful, S'pore mates.

RIAS is a slave of RIAA D*ckheads! Morons! Greedy bastards! Ran out of ideas to solve the problem? I'll suggest some:
- lower the price of albums!
- quality over quantity! Absolutely no conveyor belt music!
- at least 15 songs per album! Not like 10's! Long live the the 80's!
- pay less to artists!
- Innovation is essential!
- remove copy protection, unnecessary. Can be copied.

Every record association around the world is slave to RIAA
Anyways good news to me where I live. I don't think our record association wouldn't resort to that low trick and they don't have enough resource to submit it. Small country.

JPOP! Yay! *currently listenin to Ayumi Hamasaki - Evolution* WHOOA YEAH!!!!

BTW "Are you a female or male"-thread is goin off topic I will not reply the thread anymore

I used to leech jpop off P2P. P2P has sucked for some time. Greedy bastards, they only leech from you, they don't want to share! Gettin cut offs! P2P unnecessary since I found jpop channels on irc and got access to friends ftp. gigs of jpop goods

so what are we supposed to do..?? stop downloading from kazaa... no way... but i dun d/l mp3 files.. mostly videos.. that's illegal too right...

I uninstalled kazaa ever since they start sueing a college student for dling music. Some poor dude was sued for $10,000. I still dl anime every now and then i hope i don't get into trouble.

and i just reserve this spam from this silly site today www.cdservicesingapore.cjb.net.

Read their ad and you'll roll in laughter

"Do you want to have all your favourite songs just in 1 CD? Then our
service can help you. Our service is to help our customers to store
their favourite music(up to 12 songs per CD) into 1 CD. It's only $5
per CD.Just have to purchase 1 Disc, no minimum purchase of 2 discs
is required now. It's worth it because you can get your favourite
songs into 1 CD without buying CDs which cost nearly $20 each. Wad's
more, the more you buy, the more discounts we will give u, up to 15%
discounts and more. We only use high-quality CD for our recording.
Postage is Free of Charge . So, why waste your precious time
downloading songs and burn them into CD-R, let us do the job for you
and you can have quality assure. For more information and ordering,
please visit our website at www.cdservicesingapore.cjb.net.
"

damn... this actions that they are taking are getting really f-up...
if they continue with this rather unjust actions i think we should just boycott buying originals... ahhahah

it's not like we stop buying originals right.. the purpose for us to d/l mp3 files is to see if the artiste is any good.. and whether it is worth to buy his/her original cds.. well it is that way for me at least.. so what's their problem..??

hey pemu, irc jpop? can tell me about some of them?

arashinokoto wrote:

it's not like we stop buying originals right.. the purpose for us to d/l mp3 files is to see if the artiste is any good.. and whether it is worth to buy his/her original cds.. well it is that way for me at least.. so what's their problem..??

yup...i usually do that too....
i dl some songs to see if that ablum is worth buying....but now after hearing this...i think i dun even dare to dl songs again...

this is bad.... very very bad......

I read they are only going for the ones who share copyrighted music, meaning if you're just leeching then you should be okay, but that defeats the purpose of P2P.

In Kazaa-Lite, there is now an option that supposedly blocks the ip of the RIAA therefore preventing them from tracking you or something. But I'm sure how or if it actually works.

Also read that they are gonna sue one or two small time sharers to set an example.

I don't use kazaa to d/l music and don't use it often. There are other ways to get them.

RedRum wrote:

I don't use kazaa to d/l music and don't use it often. There are other ways to get them.

how??

Yup. Heard about that one! That's why I rarely use Kaaza...right now, I am using Winmx to d/l Jpop music & video clips!

Pemu wrote:

BTW "Are you a female or male"-thread is goin off topic I will not reply the thread anymore

hehe

chikusho..!! my mum is now scared to death that we would get fined if i even log in to kazaa.. she has ordered me to stop using it... arghz....!!

windrider wrote:

hey pemu, irc jpop? can tell me about some of them?

Try #jpop@galaxynet

sheesh.....these pple are such a pain in the butt!!!
ya, it's not as if we don't buy originals anymore wat!!!!

shucks.... think i'll go and remove kazaa from my comp... only good thing being i hadn't use it for a long time.... like arashinokoto, only use it to dl music videos...

protecting copyright??!!! my a**!!!!!
they just want to fleece you off in watever way they can!!!

the last i heard, these artistes aren't earning any less than they already are!!!

arashinokoto wrote:

chikusho..!! my mum is now scared to death that we would get fined if i even log in to kazaa.. she has ordered me to stop using it... arghz....!!

Don't use Kazaa! Kazaa is full of those pesky spywares! You're being spied on by advertise companies. "Gain" or "Gator", ring any bells? Spywares also slow down your comp as well! Eatin extra process.
A lot of malicious worms have been distributed thru Kazaa! I highly suggest installin and runnin Ad-aware! Ad-aware removes spywares and keeps your comp spyware free! And run a full virus scan!
Some viruses have the ability to turn off antivirus and firewall!

Anyways, try WinMx programme. www.winmx.com
It's a lot better than Kazaa, Morpheus etc. If not the best P2P for jpop goods Dun worry, RIAS is targeting Kazaa and Groktster!