RIAA to Sue You Now

An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC reports that apparently the music industry feels so satisfied with going after file swapping software makers that they want to sue the pants off the file swappers themselves. Of course, you'll need to be a big fish with lots of illegal music to get their attention." This is what they should have done in the first place- go after the people who are actually doing it instead of making P2P seemingly illegal.

Comments

Not gonna sue me

[killmenow]

I don't care who RIAA is suing now. I will not be a party to it. The RIAA can't sue me as I have no d/l-ed MP3s and do not partake in the sharing of them.

So, Fsck you, CmdrTaco for the subject "RIAA to Sue You Now", assuming all us /.-ers are trading illegal MP3s.

And as long as the MPAA doesn't get the same idea, I'll be just fine...

Re:About time

[Richard_at_work]

if they own it, then let them prove that in court. The majority of these people who do massive trading are pirates, they dont own all 100gb of mp3s they have.

Six in one...

[interstellar_donkey]

So, according to the RIAA, they are losing sales due to music pirating.

Whats going to happen when all the music pirates are broke because the RIAA took all their money in court and can't afford to buy a CD anyways?

What will the RIAA blame it on then? Oh wait. By that time they won't care, as they have figured out a way to have income without having to go through the process of manufacturing a band.

*sigh*

The Solution...

[evilviper]

Okay everyone, read this carefully.

According to the DMCA, a violator of copyrighted material must be notified of their infringement, and given a chance to remedy the situation before legal action may be taken.

1) If you are notified by the RIAA or MPAA that you are sharing copyrighted files, do not state of imply any intentional breaking of laws, just tell them the following:

"I'm sorry, I didn't know that THOSE files were copyrighted."

"When searching for perfectly legal content, often there are files mixed in there that are not legal. I did not intentionally download them."

"I have legally obtained those files... My software automatically shared them without my knowledge."

2) After which you've said one or more of the above, remove all the files they SPECIFICALLY NAME, and get on with your life. If they find you sharing the same content again, you will be dragged into court. If you have other copyrighted files, and are notified just as before, go to step 1.

3) I would also recomend the slowest method of communication possible. Wether they contact you by e-mail, phone, or snail mail, I recomend replies by snail mail. For one thing, it will give you plenty of time to think through your responses, as well as causing the RIAA/MPAA to spend a great deal of time in communicating with you. There's no law that says you must use the fastest mode of communication available.

4) I am not a Llama. However, I have read several legal documents thoroughly detailing the DMCA.