EFF Ad Campaign On File Swapping

miladus writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation is launching an ad campaign to counter the RIAA's lawsuits about file swapping. There are more details available at the File Sharing: It's Music To Our Ears subsite." The press release kicking off this campaign says that "EFF's Let the Music Play campaign provides alternatives to the RIAA's litigation barrage, details EFF's efforts to defend peer-to-peer file sharing, and makes it easy for individuals to write members of Congress."

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Er...

[squiggleslash]

Ok, my understanding was that the RIAA's "campaign" against peer-to-peer (the one they recently announced) was directed solely at those redistributing copyrighted content without the permission of the copyright holders, and then only if they were doing so on a large scale. I don't recall seeing anything in the RIAA's campaign against fair use - ie people swapping music with friends, people loaning music, people redistributing works with the full permission of the copyright holders, etc, etc.

So WHAT exactly is the EFF campaigning against? If it's campaigning against the above, and suggesting that people should be able to redistribute the works of others without the permission of the people who were responsible for us having those works in the first place, then how is this going to make the EFF, technical community, and peer-to-peer advocates look in general?

Re:can we just automod these "theft" posts down?

[aardvarkjoe]

can we just automod these "theft" posts down

Only if we get to mod the "copyright violation != stealing" posts down at the same time. Honestly, you guys sound like a broken record.

Re:Troll, troll, troll

[heli0]

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