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RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl
tcp100 noted an article running at fox about
The RIAA suing a 12 Year Old girl: "'I got really scared. My stomach is all turning,' Brianna said last night at the city Housing Authority apartment where she lives with her mom and her 9-year-old brother."
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Everybody thought that slavery was right. So why didn't they just keep it like that, you moron?
Copyright is an intrisnic necessary. But you want to rip that apart. Go fuck yourself.
1. I wonder if this 12 year old got the "What the F*ck do you think you're doing" message from Madonna?
2. How is it that a single mom with 2 kids in city housing can afford $30 just to avoid seeing advertising while stealing music?
3. If the RIAA are in fact only going for the flagrant downloaders - people sharing thousands of songs - then that would mean that A) They must have broadbank and B) They must have a good sized hard drive - See #2 above.
4. Anyone who lets a 12 year old use the Internet, especially Kazaa, unsupervised, should be investigated for child endangerment. And if she was supervising her daughter 100% of the time, then she's the one they should be going after.
I'm sorry, I hate the RIAA as much as the next guy, but this is BS. If anything, this is better than the other 260 lawsuits because maybe it will call attention to the fact that this mother, probably on public assistance, is letting her kids run wild on the Internet and blowing money on broadband and ad-free Kazaa access.
666-607: 6th floor apartment of the beast
I can't think of a better person to go after.
We're taxed to death--up to 35%+ fed income tax, 9% state income tax, "Alternative Minimum Tax", 8.5% sales tax, and these po folk are living rent free and listenting to free music.
Throw them in jail and toss away the key!
Best Buy can have you arrested
The Digital Black Market has existed long before Kazaa came around and every media company on the planet has been pressing charges against people who participate in it.
Stealing (copyright infringment is a form of theft) has been illegal since forever. Book publishers have been cracking down on thieves since the inception of printed material.
Just because Kazaa came around and gave a warm fuzzy name to the Digital Black Market lulling people's minds to shut down resulting in massive amounts of participation in the Digital Black Market, doesn't make the laws wrong.
Kazaa has just brought the phenomenon to the mass market in first world countries. Every media company has been cracking down on all forms of the black market (from street corners, to personal servers, to hosted pages, and now P2P) in 3rd world countries for a very long time.
It sucks she's 12 in which case, her mom should be prosecuted for being an accessory to the crime. There's no excuse for her mom not knowing that downloading the music was illegal.
Just because everyone else is stealing, doesn't make the laws against stealing unjust.
It's funny that Slashdot whines about a 12 year being potentially sued by the RIAA and yet when a 12 year old running a warez site is slapped with a fine or the site is simply removed, nobody says a word.
Kazaa is no different. The only difference is that now since "everyone" is doing it, history is being rewritten to justify it. This is just another example of why society is going to shit and the Slashdot community is becomming more and more of a laughing stock.
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