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RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents
cecil36 writes "In a follow-up to the subpoena silliness by the RIAA, the Associated Press is now reporting that the RIAA is now issuing subpoenas to family members of suspected online music swappers."
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As a law-abiding citizen and one who not only supports IP, but who makes a living off of it, I think this is a great idea. It's fairly well documented that most adolescents have little regard for the law and perhaps if enough of them are forced to move into the YMCA, homeless and hungry, where they will be at high risk of forced sodomy and other vile disgusting acts, all because their parents are imprisoned, well, this might be just the ticket to wake all these kids up.
I've gone as far as to build back doors into some of my networking products that gather and track information straight from the level II socket upstream layer and although I've yet to use this information in any way, it would be real easy for me to bring some lawsuits against some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the US. You guys would be shocked by the amount of IP theft that goes on by large multi billion dollar companies.
It's a shame that most of these kids can't see that if they were out there busting their hump and trying to make a living on their own and millions of people were stealing their IP they would be as angry as Metallica or any of the other people who back the RIAA.
Warmest regards,
--Jack
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I don't think it was necessary for you to put the IANAL comment on your post, its pretty clear. For instance, if I, in a paint related thread, were to write, "Don't buy brushes - if you live the open can in the room for a day or two, it will paint the walls by saturating the air with paint, which will obviously be transferred to the walls," then I clearly don't have to preface it with IANAP (I am not a painter), my sheer ignorance will make it obvious.
/. is the number of experts it creates. I once heard a psychology student complain "Psychology is the only serious field in which everyone, despite complete lack of training, considers themselves an expert." Well, this person obviously never came here. I could post an article about the most remote precedent set by English Common Law in the middle ages, and there would be 700 tech support people on here offering a lengthy interpretation.
In a criminal case, the prosecution has the burden of proving BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT that you are guilty. Its not even that rare for a defendant to provide no defense; it's not their responsibility to defend themselves. Of course in practice, it helps to discredit what evidence the Prosecution provides, but the burden solely and always rests on the prosecution.
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well, YGWYPF.
The safest way to approach lava is to have another person with you and he goes first.
You seem to be missing the point that not all file sharers believe that what they are doing is wrong. In fact, the ones who share, as opposed to the leechers who just download, are quite likely to disagree with your premise that the RIAA somehow "owns" the bits they are downloading. Not everyone agrees that current copyright law is fair. As far as the RIAA caring about the actual guilt or innocence of those they sue, don't make me laugh.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.