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• RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates - Chronicle.com
• The Chronicle of Higher Ed got a briefing at RIAA headquarters on how the group catches pirates. They just use LimeWire and other software that pirates use, except that they’ve set up scripts to search for songs, grab IP numbers, and send out notices to college officials. They claim they don’t target specific colleges, though many feel that they do
  

  The LimeWire software allows users who right-click on any song entry and choose “browse host” to see all of the songs that a given file sharer is offering to others for download. The software also lists the IP address of active file sharers. (An IP …

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  Try using PeerGuardian. It supposedly blocks IP addresses, and thus connections, from suspect computers on the internet, such as RIAA. I guess it works, if PeerGuardian keeps their banned IP address list current.

  It'd be awesome to share a bunch of self-made MP3's with names of RIAA-owned artists plastered on them. Just shit to waste their time. It'd be even better if thousands of people did it.

  were in ur internetzz watching u download our moviez

  One music pirate down, 42,457,798 to go….

  The RIAA just scares me, there's no two ways about it. I learned to avoid the RIAA the hard way, so now i am just on nutsie.com a lot.
  Take a peek:
  http://www.nutsie.com/member/view_member/121747?pl …
  Free, streaming and LEGAL.

  Here's how the process works: The RIAA maintains a list of songs whose distribution rights are owned by the RIAA's member organizations. It has given that list to Media Sentry, a company it hired to search for online pirates. That company runs copies of t

  To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative told The Chronicle at the organization's offices during a privat

  damn, the RIAA is still using Limewire?
  (damn, other people are still using it too?)

  Chronicle of Higher Education article explaining how the RIAA catches alleged music pirates

  The official explained that one way the RIAA identifies pirates is by using LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program that is free online and used by many college students.