My alternate title for this post was going to be "HEY, HEY, RIAA! HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU SUE TODAY!?"
But I thought that younger readers might not get the reference.
My point (and I did have one) is that in a cursory sweep through the blogosphere I couldn't find a single blog post defending the RIAA's terror campaign of suing peons for illegal filesharing.
A wonderfully thoughtful and cogent example of the vox populi against them is this one:
Just a Girl in short shorts talking about whatever: Fuck the RIAA
I get tired of beating this horse, but I never get tired of the outrage I feel at the music industry (overall, though there are exceptions that get it) and it's inability to face the music.
But I thought that younger readers might not get the reference.
My point (and I did have one) is that in a cursory sweep through the blogosphere I couldn't find a single blog post defending the RIAA's terror campaign of suing peons for illegal filesharing.
A wonderfully thoughtful and cogent example of the vox populi against them is this one:
Just a Girl in short shorts talking about whatever: Fuck the RIAA
“This is what can happen if you don’t settle,” RIAA asshole attorney Richard Gabriel told reporters,. “I think we have sent a message we are willing to go to trial.”
But, I am venturing to guess there was as much music being shared last night as there was prior to the verdict. Take a look here.
I get tired of beating this horse, but I never get tired of the outrage I feel at the music industry (overall, though there are exceptions that get it) and it's inability to face the music.
By the way, allow me to draw your attention to the great point made here last week by regular reader/commenter Charles Farley:
I'm not sure I understand the profiling model the RIAA uses. Sure, they want to make examples out of common folk by extorting settlements out of them. But why do they file suit against single mothers, the elderly and the developmentally disabled?
These are the folks who are the "least example worthy" IMHO. They are folks who either had relatives or kids illegally download the best of Fred Durst or Fergie...and lo and behold, the 5 figure lawsuit shows up.
Where is the vetting of the potential plaintifs? The real criminals most likely the children of white upper middle class or well to do parents. They can afford the bandwith, computers and iPods needed to download the gigabytes of drek they do.
Why haven't people who have the money to mount a serious defense ever sued? My guess is they are waiting to get precident set (which they just have), get it affirmed a few times and then move their sites up the income chain.
Why aren't they suing the parents who are investment bankers and criminal litigators?
The RIAA should go big or go home.
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