| RIAA's heavy handed tactics I've constantly said that, while I support their right to sue pirates in theory, how they've gone about it is all wrong. From the last of any media coverage of court cases, I always thought that cases that didn't settle were either quietly dropped or (more likely) dragged on in court until the defendant did settle.
Now we have proof of it. This student reporter's conversation with the settlement center shows just how pushy they are. They don't want court cases. They could wind up losing those and setting a bad -- for them -- precedent.
Settlements, however, are good (for the RIAA). They can get to shout about how many pirates they are taking down. The defendants can't speak up (lest they violate the one sided settlement and get sued again) even if they settled out of sheer convenience. The RIAA even gets a small cash infusion. ($3,000 settlement - $200 in court fees = $2,800 net profit per settlement.)
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-Jason Levine
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