Yesterday I had a beeg fight with Fat Her Ooi about, of all things…Kazaa.
He insists that I delete Kazaa.
With a heavy heart, I agreed, due to the fear that the FBI would detect me downloading copyrighted stuff off Kazaa and sue me.
Hehe, sounds quite funny written down, doesn’t it?
I was very irritated. But the risk of that happening while I’m over in the US is there.
So I agreed to delete Kazaa.
Then Fat Her told me to delete ALL MY SONG FILES as well.
This is where I balked.
WHY MUST I DELETE MY MUSIC! I don’t have any movies or videos, all are songs. And not all of them are from Kazaa, some are sent to me by friends while some I downloaded straight from CDs.
Fat Her is paranoid that “what if my roomate doesn’t like me and she will go tattle to the authorities aka the school authorities or Police and they check on me and I lose my scholarship”?
Breathe in, breathe out, Aud.
Me and Fat Her are in the dark about all this legal stuff.
Can the FBI or the record companies track you down even if you delete Kazaa or any other P2P network you might have had? By checking your music files, can they detect whether you got them from Kazaa or from a legitimate CD?
Which is the better way, save all my music files on the comp, or burn everything into CDs?
I don’t really download any English songs anyway. Most of my songs are Chinese or Japanese. Does that decrease my risk of being sued?
Someone give me an answer!!!
Will I be doomed to spend four years without music?
