| They will never learn Well, this is yet another nail in the coffin for the RIAA.
Why are they so bent on chasing around little people who download the latest britney spears album? Isn't their time better spent on trying to figure out better ways to get us to whip out our wallets to buy overpriced music?
And I still don't get how the RIAA could "win" all those cases. I mean, any person who has any brains in law would go "Can you prove I actually violated any copyright laws?". The answer to that question is no. Simply because the majority of the "evidence" that the RIAA ever really had was that you were connected to a tracker. Legally, they can not seize your computer unless they had hard evidence; which usually they don't (just in case always have a drill bit handy!). And when they serve you with a list of media that they claimed you pirated. So, you grab some cash, buy those CDs/DVDs and countersue. And when you present that you owned all that media, the RIAA has 0 evidence that you did anything wrong (or didn't own the media before you priated the content)...you wouldn't even need a lawyer for that. The law never states that you can't download music you own, it just says if you own it you can have it in whatever format you want; MP3 or AVI. This is almost the same as the scam where people are calling up threating you about debts you never owed to companies and if you don't pay up you will go to jail.
/rant
All I know is that I will "opt out" of the piracy tax. It is really taxation without representation! The RIAA really just want to get money from the people who they know they can't catch because those people either know what they are doing or don't use trackers (or both!).
In the mean while, I am thinking about starting my own ISP. One where it wont bend over backwards for the law makers or the RIAA, and I don't care what you do with it as long as it adheres to US law. And if you get caught pirating, you have to pay a big fine to get back onto the network.
Who wants in?
P.S. Am I one of the few people who will actually stand up for what is right? I don't care how much money you have or how many lawyers are on your side, non of that will help you in violating my rights  . Suing copyright violators is ok...make all of them share a cell with "Bubba" in jail, threatening people with lawsuits and settlements without any real evidence is not; the latter is called extortion and it is illegal - especially when you sue people that don't even own a computer. |
