Message: I wanted to personally thank all of our supporters. We at Grokster appreciate your loyalty and want you to know that we will continue to fight for your right to share files. Please stay tuned, as we are planning to make an assault on Capitol Hill and will then really need for all of you to mobilize and make sure your voice is heard in Congress. Keep an eye on the news and our web site for when and how you can be of the most help in what will be a long fight. We'll need you now more than ever! let's not let these guys get away with their storm trooper tactics. There are better ways to solve the problems. The RIAA just doesn't want to acknowledge them. So we have to "educate" them as to what the public really wants. Let's stick together and show Congress and the world that we're not just a bunch of geek criminals with crowbars, but are thoughtful intelligent VOTERS who have convictions and rights as well.

Thanks again.

Wayne Rosso
President
Grokster, LT

IT'S ABOUT TIME. GO GROCKSTER!!! I knew there was a reason why I downloaded.

Truth is, there is a defense here, I just have to call in a few favors and make sure all my facts are straight.

go freedom!

If one of your firewalls stops a known RIAA/MPAA IP, save the log, and report the attmpted hack/illegal access to your computer, to the FBI.

How would one know when its the RIAA?
They probably will pay a third party to do their dirty work. If we could find out who these companies are
we could get list of IP's that they own
and block them (Among other things .
Dose any one know who the RIAA/MPAA have used in the past?

get a piece of software caalled Peerguardian and the data file..it lists the known servers to block.

I dont want to block the kazaa servers.
I want to get the IP's of the people spying on us.

Sticking together, I think, is the most important thing he said. Not just because more letters to congress and more protests are better than one, but because to change any minds in our idiot congress they have to know a lot of people feel strongly, and that votes will balance on how they handle this.

Nobody will refuse to vote for a politican because they're against the RIAA anyway, because nobody, except the RIAA gives enough of a rats ass. But they have plenty to lose by supporting them.
Election 2004 is another good chance to let them know how we feel. How many of us are there again? tens of millions?

coulda swung 2000's prez vote either way. interesting.

The EFF says we are 60 million. Enough to elect any president we want.

I'd like one who would put people ahead of corporations. Fat chance someone like that will even run.

If any politician even has the guts to speak out against the RIAA pirates, he/she will have my vote--even if they're a Republican! and even if they are running for dogcatcher!

Same here, except even if they're a democrat. Call me a cynic, but I figure they're all evil, fat, white, impotent, rich bastards and there's no difference anymore. So for me, my vote will be determined 100% by this. That description of politicians reminds me of what corporate goons look like.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm rather certain that more RIAA employees vote in elections than teenage downloaders of MP3s. Thus, you would be asking a politician to commit virtual political suicide by telling him/her to go up against the RIAA. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely ways to bring a politician around to our way of thinking, but election voting is not the key.

Just makin sure we all have both feet on the ground here, that's all.

Those teenagers need to explain the 4th Amendment to their parents abut unreasonable search and seizure..Without a warrant its illegal, and do you really want a business inspecting you computer? without your even being aware of it? The RIAA has been lobbying hard for wat amounts to "Police Powers" to enforce their business model.

The Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I doubt the RIAA has around 4 million employees. That's a usual online participation for KaZaa alone, not to mention the other P2P services. And, most of these people online (i.e. the 3.5-4 million) have a NETWORK of friends and families who give a damn whether the RIAA decides to a modern Joe McCarthy, and try their friends and loved ones in court. Who buys CDs of people like Nelly and others...young kids...not 50 year olds!
Guess what demographic is downloading the files? The same demographic. What business makes the decision to attack as many of their customers as possible and stays in business if the customers have an IQ over that of a potato?

Boycott RIAA, MPAA, and all the other bastards!

Grokster's cool.. they really need to kill the spyware in their stuff tho, it's another kazaa, you can't use it without the spyware in it.

i was thinkin why r they just tryin to get people who download songs it should be these places like cdnow.com to cuz it is just as easy to find the songs on the cd u want an download them

Expose, Check out Kazaa lite
http://www.kazaalite.tk
No spy ware and some cool stuff that Kazaa dosnt have.

DarnWall, I see what you're saying, but I think a lot of it is coming from the same stereotype that everybody else has. Filesharing isn't something that a big group of teenagers do.

A lot of middle aged people take part in it, and there plenty of college students 21 or older who take part in file sharing. I know a big number of them are teens, but I'm willing to bet an equally big number are voting age.

I am. I was looking around this morning for politicians against file sharing, just so I could see who not to vote for. I know there's more, but here's a few (three) that I found in my spare time. Why not make a big list, eh?


U.S. District Judge John D. Bates
U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (Utah) (dolt)
Representative Bob Goodlatte (Virginia)

Problem: A large percentage of teens & young adults don't vote period.

Thanks for the link BadSyntax! Most useful. But most people who use the regular Kazaa simply don't know it uses spyware & adware & gains money from monitoring your Internet activities that you thought were (relatively) private.

Kazaa Lite ought to be publicized more, and the fact that regular Kazaa uses tons of spyware.

hell yeah! kazaa lite kicks ass!

I think that if the young people that "don't vote period" have a strong reason to vote, they will. It's just that in my 19 y/o opinion (meaning I am 19 years old) politicians don't generally address issues that are important to young poeple such as myself. If the file sharing issue became a platform issue, I would most likely vote in the 2004 election.

P.S.
I don't mind spyware, I have nothing to hide.

p2p and this whole thing IS a platform issue... OUR platform!