[TriLUG] Music Files (and a small rant)

Mark Freeze mfreeze at gmail.com
Fri May 27 07:07:10 EDT 2005


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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