How will they know if you DID download it?

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1) If you fly they can check it
2) They can copy it
3) They can't tell whether or not it is pirated media
4) Just don't bring it
5) Leave it in in your baggage, not in your carryon
6) Lol

the chances of them searching your mp3 player is like one in ten

You're forgetting that downloading music isn't illegal. Worst they can do is keep your isht. if you're worried about that, look up trucrypt for your muzaks.

I have one question:
How do they differentiate from illegal mp3s and ones you ripped from your own CDs? If I take one of my many CDs and upload it to rapidshare, does it suddenly lose a watermark or some shit that says it's legal?

If you have a Cowon or Zen or something with SD support, remove all of the music from it then tape an SD card to your nuts and just put the SD card in the mp3 player to play music off of that for the flight

I'm going to reiterate this, because I'm appalled no one bothers trying to wrap this around their heads.

DOWNLOADING music is not illegal. DISTRIBUTING music, and thus infringing on copyright distribution laws, is fairly illegal. So far even _that_ has only been prosecuted successfully from the RIAA (and the successful part is arguable) and has never been prosecuted criminally.

>>2483652
Also it probably won't work but you can encrypt the SD card too

>>2483659
so wait is this why you can get fucked for torrents?
seeding and all

>>2483679

Can you? Yes. Do you? Trying finding news articles about people being successfully prosecuted because of file transfer through torrents. Emphasis is on 'try'.

>>2483635
They probably check against a list of known MD5-Hashes for well known pop songs, because each mp3 you encode on your own should get a unique hash. When many mp3s raise a flag, the chances that you did d/l it somewhere are pretty high. No proof, but enough hint to get you in trouble.
Workaround: convert to .ogg, .mp3 or any other format, so the hash changes

This happened to my cousin on his way here for thanksgiving.
Basically he had a mp3 player with a bunch of crap downloaded from limewire and torrents and they searched it and he got caught. He got a fine for $200 but nothing serious.
They can tell what songs have been downloaded without legitimate licenses (illegally) by checking the ID3 tags of the mp3 files. Easy way to circumvent this is to use the program ID3 Fixer Pro which will remove all traces of illegal downloading.

Here's a patched version of ID3 Fixer Pro for anyone that wants to keep their files clean: http://sharebee.com/f89edd48

>>2483723

Totally lies. There's no legal process set up to "fine" someone for this.

>>2483707

Protip: changing a single bit anywhere in the file will change the hash. Just change the least significant bit of the last sample or something, you'll lose infinitely little quality compared to a transcode.

>>2483723
Nice virus bro
mootbIock

>>2483723
thanks! this finally made it so i can sync all my music with my shitty drm supported player.

>>2483753
Gah, you're right. However I might add that changing the tag should change it aswell.
So here's what we have so far:
*if possible: put it into a container with password on a cheap USB stick (name it "photos of maria" or something), have empty mp3 player.
*if above not possible, strip all the tags and check the filenames for release names.

>>2483812
Listen to this anon, or use the ID3 Fixer Pro that was posted earlier in this thread.

>>2483723
I see your trojan horse and raise you a RED PNG.
And yes, I downloaded it, scanned it with three scanners, etc. It's a trojan.

THE MORE YOU KNOW

Put the mp3 player in a locked box.

>>2483864

Mail the key ahead.

Stick it in a condom and shove it up your ass.

I mean come on, are you paranoid? just leave it at home if you're that worried, or walk up to the counter sniffing and saying "Do you smell vermiculite?"