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Inquiry Into RIAA's Piracy Crackdown Tactics

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the sanity-checks dept.

MongooseCN writes "Sen. Norm Coleman started an inquiry to check the RIAA's tactics on attacking online music swappers. He believes the RIAA's tactics may not be taking into consideration the damage they do to innocent people. It's good to know that someone remembered people in the US have Rights." As a former roadie, Senator Coleman doesn't oppose file sharing penalities, he merely wants to make sure the punishment fits the crime.

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  1. Property Rights Anyone? by Hethcox · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    • The recordings are the RIAA member's property. Pure and simple. They can do with them what they want. It's not ours to decide.
    • Just because there are zillions of people sharing does not convey a new right upon them.
    • Somewhere there are people whose 401K owns stock in these corporations. Not 'big business' and all the other naive cliches /. folk indulge in, but people who directly or by proxy paid for stock in those companies.
    • Clearly the RIAA members need a new model, but just because we don't like their current model doesn't mean they have to change.
  2. It is nice to have some of my rights remembered by b-baggins · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Specifically, the right to profit and income from my intellectual/artistic work.

    The right to profit through the providing of a product or service to a customer.

    Oh, wait. I forgot. This is slashdot. Excuse me. You must have meant: "The right to be a parasite and take without paying."

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    You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
  3. Re:Stealing is a crime against society! by notetoi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Quite defensive there, aren't you, but I had in mind these quote from this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/technology/28TUN E.html "Some of the targeted Internet users expressed shock that they were singled out for an activity that tens of millions of Americans are believed to engage in. Others said they were unaware they were doing anything wrong. Most of those interviewed refused to be identified by name, citing privacy concerns and the potential impending legal action against them." More exact, this unawareness of "doing anything wrong", which I called "arrognace of the law" should be a crime against civility.

  4. Re:Ahem. NOT. by Clockwurk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    60,000 African American voters who were TURNED away on election day because they were incorrectly tagged as convicted felons by the state of Florida.

    I don't see what you're upset about. If they are African Americans, they probably are convicted felons or they are criminals that haven't been caught yet. They should never be allowed to vote and the fact that 60,000 of them tried illegally is a sign that election officials need to be even more dilligent when dealing with African American voters.