| . Interestingly enough, it's not illegal to download copyrighted material, if you already own the material.
The case the MPAA has is useless. They try to shut down torrent linkers, who's sites contain 0% copyrighted material. The Torrent files themselves have 0% copyrighted material in them. They might even succeed in shutting some sites down, but I say, posturing and threats. The best offense they can come up with is .'enabling theft of intellectual property' It's like someone trying to sue ford because they were drunk and driving a mustang. .it's really silly. Or the government sueing a baggage manufacturer like TUMI because some columbian drug lord transports cocain in them.
The lesson here is that you can point the finger at causes . . .music . .whatever . .(what was in Hitler's CD CASE . .let's sue those musicians!) Threaten a huge legal battle, the sites are going to shut down, but in 2 days they are back up again, in a country where they don't give a shit about the RIAA or MPAA.
Even if the MPAA or RIAA went after an individual, there's no money in it for them. To even pursue someone in court with charges etc costs thousands of dollars. You think bob from dallas who works a regular job is worth targeting? No, he's not. They don't have a target to go after that's worth money because bit torrent is de-centralized. So they will try and shut down sites, maybe file some suits, but ultimatly, they simply will loose money, and file trading will go on. Get another ISP, find another link page, and move on. Just give them the finger.
They will probably file suits against folks to scare people off, but it's not working.
Best way to fight the xxAA? Don't buy music from an artist on their list. Don't put money in their coffers. That's what helps them. |
