[TriLUG] Music Files (and a small rant)

[Shane O'Donnell]

I think you're missing the obvious solution, which has two key components:

 - tar with gzip
 - 250 Gmail accounts

I have 50 Gmail invites, if you're interested.

Shane "hoping to start another flurry of gmail invite requests" O.

On 5/27/05, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the advice on RAID.  I have discussed this
> several times with people off list and they offered some great ideas
> and really gave me a lot of info on RAID and how to set it up. I would
> not have had to continue offline had it not been for this thread
> devolving into an idiotic copyright discussion. We even had to throw
> in a little dose of good ol' southern religion on a couple of posts.
> (If'n ye download them songs, you goin' strait to hell.)
> 
> The method I decided to use with my budget and available hardware and
> how important the files are to me, etc...  is this: Two computers,
> both with 2 250GB drives, (The data ended up being only 360GB.)
> configured with RAID 0 (striping) , one with windows (Because my
> Napster-to-go wont work with Linux.), and the other running SAMBA that
> mirrors the music and 'my documents' directories from the windows box
> nightly.   I will probably add the DVD backup option now that Pat has
> informed me of the cost.  I really had no idea that it was that cheap.
> 
> On 5/27/05, Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
> > You should expect to be ridiculed when you claim to be doing something
> > that is currently illegal :p.
> >
> 
> Pat, what a great post up until this little barb you had to throw in
> at the end.  Read my earlier posts.  I stated that I was downloading
> files from Napster until all of the yelling about the legalities over
> the service started, and then I quit downloading.  When Napster first
> came out no one knew it was illegal. It ran for many months until some
> artists and the RIAA started to speak out, and then litigate against
> it.  Once I knew you could get in trouble for downloading, I stopped.
> But, to this very day, I have not seen one piece of litigation, nor
> received any notice, nor read in the press (or online) anything that
> told anyone, "Delete all previously downloaded music from your hard
> drive immediately."   I have heard of people that are still
> downloading being sued for around $5000.  One case of someone in
> Raleigh being sued by the RIAA was just on WRAL News a couple of weeks
> ago. I still do agree with most of you:  If I was still downloading I
> might deserve anything I had coming. But delete all of the stuff I
> downloaded in 1999 when Napster first came out BEFORE any one even
> thought it was illegal?   You have to be kidding me.
> 
> To close I have two quotes for the prosecution: (and you know who you are...)
> 
> "Napster: It is the future, in my opinion. That's the way music is
> going to be communicated around the world. The most important thing
> now is to embrace it..."
> -- Dave Matthews (Dave Matthews Band)
> 
> "Judge not, lest ye shall be judged."
> --Jesus
> 
> (That last one was for you William ;) )
> 
> Peace to all of you and your kind,
> Mark.
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