RIAA Prepares Legal Blitz Against Filesharers

Sayonara writes "The RIAA are now well and truly gathering their forces for a financial onslaught on file sharers in the US, with a "fear and awe" campaign targetting college and high school students in particular. The strategy can be reduced to 'We should really charge you $150,000 per song you have downloaded. Pay us $50,000 now, and we'll say no more about it.' In a related article, the BBC describes how the netizen known as 'nycfashiongirl' is now attempting to delay the RIAA's case against her by claiming their investigation of her online activities was illegal. The RIAA has dismissed these arguments as 'shallow.'"

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RIAA, MPAA, SCO

[KlaatuVN]

Geez, with the RIAA trying their best to alienate consumers, the MPAA blaming the consumers for crappy sales, and SCO trying to intimidate people into paying for what is essentially in the public domain, I have never felt more like moving out of the USofA.

You Canadians have any room up there for me?

Re:Might work for governments

[lynx_user_abroad]

People are free to not buy you [sic] products.

Oh get off it. The only people the RIAA is targeting are those losers who are so addicted to RIAA music that they'll lie to themselves and steal to get their fix of "American Crap" tunes.

If any of them had any sense of right-and-wrong, half a clue, and any taste at all in music, they'd be downloading free and clear music from independent artists that doesn't sound like the same old blah blah blah the AM pop stations overplay.

The RIAA is targeting people who are addicted to their product and too cheap to pay. They have no fear of a boycott occurring, because these people obviously can't live without RIAA music and can't stop paying for it because they're already freeloading.