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RIAA Moves Against College-Network Fileswapping
pazu13 writes "The RIAA is taking action against college "Napster networks". It's suing four network operators, two at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, one at Princeton University, and one at Michigan Technological University. Don't know where this is going, but I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc... my speed across the network is ridiculously faster than when I try to access outside sources."
The fact that I am swapping files does NOT mean I am infringing on your bloody copyright. I have the right to share MY own data with whodahellever I want, with or without your approval.
We really need to stand up for our rights as consumers and tell the RIAA to take a hike with their cavemanish license agreements. The cost of sharing data is rapidly approaching zero, yet these anuses still want to charge $17 a CD AND rid you of any rights to share it. Imagine the nerve! The world is so full of people willing to rid you of any rights or liberty you have if you are in any way naive, trusting, or complacent. Nothing really changes. Human greed is everlasting. The powerful will always seek to oppress and capitalize upon the weak and meek.
It's high time we rejected these ridiculously ridiculous license agreements.
People died for your freedom.
Don't just give it away.