and you know what else?
Isn't it rather peculiar that Kazaa is the one forced to cease the downloads rather than Morpheus and Grokster, although no doubt they're next on the chopping block?
Kazaa has the 128k bitrate limit built into the software, correct?
Have you heard of any users being able to regedit it outta there same as we did with Morph?
I'm not familar with Grokster users and was never lucky enough to receive an answer from any of them when they were dling from me. I've never paid any attention to the files they were dling either....tsk-tsk on me.
Just for arguments sake, we know that 128 is NOT true blue CD quality. So even if it's users are sharing copyrighted material, it's only basically good only to play on your computer and perhaps a portable mp3 player but to the audiophile listening to his high end home entertainment system, the sound doesn't come close to .wav or even the higher bitrates.
We're just talking RIAA here, not the movie industry or heaven forbid - the software companies
. Than again the same argument can be used for the movie industry also.
Now some 128's can sound mighty good, but you can certainly tell the difference between a 128 and a 192 or 320 on your home system.
I don't know about most file shares and can only speak for myself by saying that, when I perform a search for a particular song title, 128's are *the* most popular bitrate out there. I sometimes have to look pretty high and low to find titles 128+ using kazaa and morpheus.
What is the RIAA "really" worried about?!!
Forgive me for going off the deep end........it is Friday
GR