I was wondering if anyone knew what the chances were of getting caught for downloading off Kazaa ect. were? Also copying borrowed cds. Has anyone ever been caught? What are penalties?

lol Sounds like someone is worried..

Locked in a room and forced to listen to Weird Al Yankovic music 24/7.

Don't worry about it! They have only gone after a handful of people who have been using their website to share files.

Hi! Here is some old news taken from http://www.p2pnet.net/issue05/lead.html

Denmark's Anti Pirat Gruppen which apparently, is trying to get about 150 KaZaA and eDonkey users to fork out up to $14,000 each, "for illegally downloading copyright material".

"APG monitored the file sharing networks for available files with Danish IP addresses - and went to court to get the users' personal details from their ISPs, armed with screen shots of, for example, the KaZaA window showing the files on the user's hard-drive," he says on his news page, continuing:

"The courts obliged and ordered the ISPs to deliver the personal details of the incriminated users. Then the bills were in the post ... landing on the mats of the unfortunate downloaders over the last few days.

"Users are charged about $16 per CD and about $60 per full length movie. If they pay now - and delete the illegal content from their hard drives - then the amount is cut in half and they avoid going to court. Those who don't pay up are to be sued."

Ps I suspect there will be more to come since RIAA has declared war against piracy Ds

check to see if your isp has been issued a
Subpoena
from http://www.eff.org/

chances are slim and none......don't lose any sleep over it.

oh ya, listing things like this on sites would be a good tool for investigators to find who is using Kazaa and not..sooo be carefull....

John

the Kazaa files are not gonna cause you a problem. as for the copying of friends' cd's, if you are talking about making copies of sw (namely office xp, winxp home, etc...) be careful and NEVER register any of it. keep in mind that sw like office xp HAS to be registered or it will quit working but those types of apps are few and far between. jsut use common sense and you'll be fine.

i wouldn't worry about it...i download a couple of new songs a month ..i use the new kazaa k++ which has no spywear and it also hides your user name and if checked it only shows you with 1 song... but i'm not that worried anyway i don't live in the states ..you can get the new kazaa here

http://www.k-lite.tk/