http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=601

RazorPop Declares Victory in File-Sharing War
November 9, 2004
Thomas Mennecke


Rest easy file-traders. The long, drawn out copyright wars are now over. No longer will you need to worry about the RIAA or the MPAA filing a lawsuit against your 83-year-old grandmother. No longer will you need to worry if Peer Guardian really works or is just a pile of binary fluff. RazorPop is here to save the day.

In a bold statement in their press release, RazorPop has declared victory in the great file-sharing wars, "The File Sharing Battle Is Over: RazorPop Opens P2P Networks and Software To Major Consumer Entertainment And Marketing Companies."

RazorPop, who also functions as the parent comapny of DiaRIAA and P2PFiles, owns TrustyFiles. TrustyFiles is a P2P application that accesses multiple networks. Users of trusty files can access other Trusty file uses, in addition to Kazaa, Grokster, Morpheus, Limewire, Bearshare, Shareaza, and other Fast Track, Gnutella, Gnutella2 and Bit Torrent network users. RazorPop belongs to the P2P trade group DCIA (Distributed Computing Industry Association.)

In an apparent end to P2P hostilities, TrustyFiles is welcoming the copyright industry’s embrace of file-sharing. While some may display concern at the RIAA's lawsuit campaign, the upcoming MPAA crusade, 13 year old girls being sued, the constant legal battles, the consumption of bandwidth, the threat to anonymity and Internet freedoms, TrustyFiles views these as mere trivialities.

"The recording industry is finally done battling P2P technology," announced RazorPop founder and CEO Marc Freedman. "RIAA (The Recording Industry Association of America) has proclaimed 'P2P technology is great' and multiple industry-approved P2P networks will be available in the near future."

The effort is part of TrustyFile's and RazorPop's new effort to allow record companies to 'legitimately' sell industry sanctioned music through P2P networks. Now that all legal hurdles have been cleared and P2P has been embrased by the copyright industry, TrustyFiles will be selling the entertainment industry's music through their proprietary software. In addition, the company is now free to take advantage of open networks such as Gnutella and BitTorrent for the financial advantage of RazorPop and the music industry.

"We welcome the music industry's approval of P2P. Now that the war is over, it's time for business. It's time to take advantage of the P2P networks' vast power and reach to promote and sell legal content. Major consumer entertainment distributors like Sony BMG are already well underway with their P2P initiatives. What about your company?"

Slyck will pass, thank you. But hey, with a name like TrustyFiles, who else can you trust?
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Read the forum replies at the above url. Funny as heck. RazorPop replies there too (Well at least someone does claiming to be RazorPop).

Hey, this isn't April First you know.

I got this press release about a week ago. RazorPop is a PR firm.

"No longer will you need to worry about the RIAA or the MPAA filing a lawsuit against your 83-year-old grandmother. No longer will you need to worry if Peer Guardian really works or is just a pile of binary fluff."

My grandma is dead. I never have worried much about the RIAA, except when they interfere with my personal distribution.

In the 80's B movies in context. Trusty Files sounds like something that would bring your computer to life and kill you while you slept. Such as if we had Trusty Power (nuclear power plant) and 30ft Toads were eating the town people.

Since the RIAA hasn't put out news that the infringement cases are dropped, I think is one is a bit too early to make such a claim.

This sounds more like a "What I would like to hear" statement with a spin like the RIAA would claim in winning the p2p wars.

I don't trust this one bit...

The RIAA will with 99% certainty lose, but the biggest casualty of this war is the credibility of music as human expression.

an unending question has been raised by all this which poisons every artistic experience... that question is "was this truly an inspired work, or motivated by money"

Why does TrusyFiles sound like something that is going to send hourly reports on my activity to the RIAA?

The RIAA is not dropping their cases either. And the MPAA has filed their own round of suits. This "war" (more like the USSR invading Latvia) won't end for a long time, atleast until the RIAA actually loses one of its lawsuits. Of course, that would require that somebody actually go to court with them...

The real tragedy here is how this disgraces the American legal system.

(This is a satire based article) read the first line...

No, pepe, it just reads like one. This is a bona fide press release from this company. It also describes Marc Freedman as a "visionary" in the part that was deleted from the end.

Here's the part that was left off...

TRUSTYFILES

The retail version of TrustyFiles High Performance File Sharing software is the leading multiple network P2P software.

TrustyFiles searches and downloads hundreds of millions of files over the Kazaa/Fast Track, Gnutella, Gnutella 2, and Bit Torrent P2P file sharing networks, as well as the Web. TrustyFiles is FREE with NO spyware and NO additional bundled software.

TrustyFiles can be downloaded from www(dot)TrustyFiles(dot)com.

TrustyFiles is three products in one. With Public File Sharing, search TrustyFiles, Kazaa, Grokster, Morpheus, Limewire, Bearshare, Shareaza, and other Fast Track, Gnutella, Gnutella2 and Bit Torrent network users.

Share your favorite files and searches with friends when you run TrustyFiles in Personal File Sharing mode. If you’re a business user or have confidential files, use Private File Sharing to restrict access only to users you invite.

TrustyFiles is a small 1.5MB download. TrustyFiles provides security through an Internet connection blocklist to protect from invasive users and virus scanning support to reject infected files.

TrustyFiles' advanced P2P engine provides simultaneous searches and downloads over file sharing networks. Other features include global search results, multi-source downloading, partial file downloading, multiple sharing directories, file compression, and support for TrustyLinks, Gnutella Magnet links, Kazaa sig2dat links, and torrent files. TrustyFiles features 100% native code, optimized for high performance and multiple networks.

ABOUT RAZORPOP
RazorPop (RazorPop[dot]com) is an Internet marketing, technology, and entertainment company. RazorPop develops innovative software, services, and networks for digital entertainment consumers and businesses that want to reach them. RazorPop's primary product is TrustyFiles High Performance File Sharing software, the leading multi-network client with Kazaa, Gnutella, Gnutella2, and Bit Torrent search and download, as well as personal, private, and public file sharing. RazorPop was founded in January 2001 by visionary Marc Freedman and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Other RazorPop properties include TopP2P for free and legal downloads and DiaRIAA for digital entertainment and file sharing news and thousands of articles and web links.

RazorPop is a member of the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA). The DCIA advances the adoption of distributed computing technologies and the commercial development of business models based on them.

Seems to me it's just a ploy and there's prolly a long (well-hidden) leash leading back to the entertainment industry and they're just trying to get you on their own network so they can monitor every single thing you do instead of just random transactions they happen to be connected to.

"TrustyFiles" is a little too suspicious for the name.

Trussed up files more like.

I don't like them. The problem is I don't trust any hybrid P2P, and then, toss in the fact they never show up in the GDF scares me. G2DF doesn't even say anything about TrustyFiles on their website. Mercy on P2Ps soul.

I don't know where to post this, but I think we should look into this. Here is a post from the Snow Patrol fan site.

Hello everyone. I was at Best Buy today and saw a "promo" called "Selections from Final Straw" sitting on the shelf. On the back, it says "For Promotional Use Only. Not For Sale". On the front was a sticker that said $12.99. How rediculous is that? If the band reads any of this, please contact Best Buy and tell them that you want money from the sale of your promotional items. Their excuse for the promo being so much was because the CD was not out yet. (A) It is already out and on the shelf next to the promos, and (B) The CD is only $9.99. How rediculous! I threw a HUGE fit to the manager and ASSistant managers and made them pull them all off the shelf. In the end, they ended up giving me one for free, but that still doesn't change the fact that they are charging for a promo item. If anyone else has a Best Buy near them and sees this, please do as I did and throw a temper tantrum and demand that they pull these off the shelves (if they are charging for them of course). Thanks for listening to my rant! If anyone wants to contact me directly and tell me of their findings, I can be reached at M3LV1N5@Netrox.Net. Thanks! Josh

I think this is a job for the FBI or the state attorney general, Carla. Oooo, I wonder if it's in N.Y...

We at Methlabs are considering blocking them and their application on the PeerGuardian database.

DiaRIAA has always supported spyware, and NO ONE SHOULD USE THIS PROGRAM!

Rgarding the Best Buy selling promo cd -- it's Florida -- Cutler Ridge or Perrine.
ShadowMom-- anywhere near you?

"DiaRIAA has always supported spyware..."

Thank you TheRealJFM. That is all I need to know. This sounds like a set up for the RIAA to data mine more victims.

Also, allow me to thank you for the fine work with PG. While I don't use PG anymore, for first time users, you are the folks to turn to. It is with much appreciation and with no remarks to be said against PG that your ongoing work should be recognised by all that desire any sort of security on the net.

I’m thrilled at the open discussion and want to provide facts not fiction. RazorPop did release a press release that gdZiemann accurately mentions. I thank George for his including that.

RazorPop never said RIAA/MPAA will stop suing consumers. RazorPop does not represent them. Here’s what we wrote in our reply in the Slyck column.

While RIAA accepts P2P technology, they also still
resist it in court, in Congress, and with user lawsuits.
These are not trivialities to us. We actively fight
this. We have been active in community programs like
SaveP2P and Donate Your Music Check, which sent over
$1,000 to the EFF. We continue to fight RIAA and those
who would stop innovation and sue their fans. We
publish DiaRIAA, which should make clear our position.

Some people want to create a crisis when there isn’t any. In response to suggestions that we’re somehow enabling something new or evil, we wrote:

TrustyFiles is committed to P2P users. We fully
support open P2P networks and open use of
those networks.

The entertainment industry already sells into P2P -
through Altnet, through file formats that fans share
like Weed files, and via commercial services that
provide server-based P2P file sharing that shows up
in regular search results of all clients. That is not
new.

If major recording labels want to deploy their own
private P2P networks, I’m happy to take their money
and build it for them. But any such work has no
effect on the open P2P networks or our commitment
to such networks.

We are not a PR firm. RazorPop is a real P2P developer and developed TrustyFiles software. Again, we have no relationship to RIAA or the entertainment industry. We do not monitor people’s usage of our software or any P2P use. In fact, unlike other developers, we include no bundled software with our P2P software.

Lastly, it is a lie to say that DiaRIAA has supported spyware. The site does not support spyware (and certainly does not support RIAA!) DiaRIAA promotes TrustyFiles software. TrustyFiles never has and never will have spyware. In fact TrustyFiles has NO bundled software of any kind.

Marc, RazorPop
Developer of TrustyFiles
Publisher of DiaRIAA

I tried using TrustyFiles about a week ago. What a piece of shit! Too damn slow in the downloading category. I got rid of it after a total of only one hour of using it. I'll stick to my BearShare.

And I will say the same thing about Morpheus, Grokster, and Kazaa . . .they are all crappy for anyone that still uses a 56 Kbps dial-up connection.

Carla--Sorry I just read the rest of this thread--that Best Buy is right down the road from me, about 5 minutes away. I'll try to stop in this week and see if they're still doing that or not, and then I'll send you a DMusic note, okay?

Cool. Thanks.