Is using Kazaa for downloading music illegal?

[AlexHall74]

Good post WK,

As far as I know in the U.S. the RIAA was after "uploaders" who were sharing 750 or more files via their "My Shared Folder". If you think about it, doesn't it keep you off the radar if you limit the contents of your shared folder to let's say 400 or 500 songs?

That's what I did at the end. I put my best tunes from all genres into my shared folder. I added a prefix of the genre it was from in all caps: TRANCE-ATB-9PM Til I come; 80s-Deveo-Whip It; that way when new stuff came into my shared folder I could easily sort therough my files and the new ones. This seemed to work pretty well and I never got any messages from other users bitching that I wasn't sharing my files.

Another thing, I have a hunch that the RIAA is going after people that are sharing music that is currently selling well in the market. If everyone who was going to buy the new Nelly (blech!) album did not because of Kazaa, then the RIAA gets pissed. But who is going to care if someone picks ups some tunes that are lower on the radar such as less mainstream music that never sold too well in the first place? Again, just a hypothesis of mine that is completely not researched in any way shape or form.

WATCH OUT BRITNEY SPEARS DOWNLOADERS!!! 8O

-AlexHall74

WinMX also works better than Kazaa sometimes as Kazaa has so much paid content listed on it now...