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EFF Warns Against RIAA Amnesty Program
kpogoda writes "Check out the latest warnings from the Electronic Frontier Foundation regarding the recent actions from the RIAA. If you or anyone you know was contemplating handing over information to the RIAA, you may think twice."
Insightful? Come on...how about troll
You do realise that the RIAA will win this war, don't you? :-)
So by win do you mean never having a large majority of people listen to any of their prepackaged crap? This time I cant help but feed the troll...I share PLENTY of files online, and the plain fact is all of it is LEGAL. There is not ONE single piece of music I own, or listen to that will support that trade group or their member labels. Sure its a hard line position, but Im thankful that my standard for what is good music has gone up by orders of magnitudes since that time. What am I missing again? when I turned off the crap it was all brittney spears and eminem.
Although your rephrasing another party on their own viewpoints is a little presumptious, its not all that suprising. FACT is, the statement is not to ADMIT to illegally sharing files. Its a strongarm tactic, nothing new. If you are arrested and cave into the threats of cops on the beat and admit to a crime just to get them to leave you alone even though you are innocent, you can still be tried and found guilty based on that confession. The legal ignorance in this country is frightening.
Things are not as valuable as a person, no matter how much of a scumbag the person is.
Ah, now there, you have it wrong.
Humans have no value. We have made it as the single most populous species on Earth, by a a factor of 3 over the second most populous (rats, who only made it that high because they do well in the shadow of human settlements).
We have no value. Any one of us can dissapear, with no real loss to the rest of the universe. You could even wipe out four or five billion of us (as long as that didn't include all of one gender), with no real loss to the world - That would still leave more people alive than existed at any time prior to the 17th century (you know, one of those major times of unrest when people realize that if they didn't find a way to increase food production, most of them would starve, leading to such Modest Proposals as Swift's to deal with overpopulation?)
So no, your fundamental premise does not hold true. We have no reason to allow someone to threaten our safety by inquiring why they've entered our house without our permission, because the loss of that person means absolutely nothing. One more walking bag of pondscum placed a safe distance underground, and a thousand other walking bags of pondscum get the message not to break into my house.