Boy things are not like they used to be, I guess I am getting older! I remember the day when school bullies and bad grades where big things to worry about!
Today is vastly different from then and definitely carries a bigger impact! Thus my back to school blog for families with three very important tips for adults and parental commandments to children of all ages!
1. Thou shall not use Lime Wire, Frost Wire, Bear Share or “ANY” “free music” sharing sight to get free music!! Period!! It’s illegal but very profitable to those who catch you doing it!
From the case files, three main points on the perils of Limewire can be quickly summarized:
• The RIAA goes after people on file sharing sights like Limewire for copyright violation!
o The RIAA can entrap people with actual Limewire entrapment accounts and servers of their songs designed to tag violators!
o Information can be swapped in both directions allowing RIAA to obtain your ISP information as well as what is on your hard drive and who you are.
o The RIAA can now ban individuals from the Internet who violate the law through their Internet Service Provider.
• The RIAA has serious legal precedence to fine those it finds illegally sharing music on the Internet!
o The Federal Courts ordered Jammie Thomas to pay 1.92 million in fines on retrial guilty verdict!
o The Jury’s verdict worsened for the defendant on re-trial from 220 Thousand to 1.92 million in fines.
o Pre-litigation fines to collage students caught in the act are around $24,000
o Copyright law is harsh and sided for the plaintiffs.
• Social sharing sites like Limewire have been shown to have malware on 30% of their entire content and pipe it through all security to your computer.
o PC Magazine Survey found that every item downloaded has a 30% chance of delivering a malware package from these sites.
o File Sharing programs like Limewire are legal but by design create a tunnel through any firewalls installed to the shared folder on your hard drive. This allows malware free control of the PC once delivered.
o Users have little control over the sites they connect to and have no way of knowing if the site is protected, infected, trustworthy, a hacker or not.
o Malware is near to being a 6 billion dollar industry in 2010 and these sites have shown to be a prime proving grounds for malware developers to test in. In 2009 more malware was created than in the past 20 years.
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