RIAA Pursues State-Level Anti-Piracy Bills > Not too surprising

Not too surprising

This is why corporations should not have rights like an individual. A company swoops into a state and gets laws passed yet taxpayers are losing their homes to inflation and their lives to lack of adequate and affordable health care.

It is pathetic how quickly this law passed. The government of Tennessee represents the citizens of the state and yet a corporation gets a law passed without the majority of the taxpayers in the state asking for the law to be passed.

I would argue that the law is taxation without representation since obviously the RIAA not being headquartered in Tennessee pays no Taxes to the state of Tennessee and thus should have no rights. Taxpayer money will be squandered for services provided to the RIAA to enforce their views on the state and it's people which the legitimate taxpayers never asked for.

reply to powerhog
There's a simple legislative solution to this.

Pass RIAA's bill with a couple of implementation mandates:

1. RIAA must provide digital copy of everything it wants policed.

2. RIAA must pay the institutions a fee to cover the costs of the policing action.

Failing this, the states (and Congress) can (and should) pass legislation absolving ALL institutions from liability derived from copyright infringement that was not authorized by the institution.