RIAA PR Efforts Examined

The Importance of writes "Yale's LawMeme has an interesting article pointing out that the RIAA is having some PR success with their anti-file sharing lawsuits. People being sued are not just angry with the RIAA, they are angry with Kazaa. The LawMeme article thinks this is bad news for innovation since Congress might be likely to pass a law making innovative software providers more liable for the copyright infringements of their customers in order to stop the public outcry over the RIAA lawsuits." And in other news, a P2P group is planning to pay off the RIAA for that 12-year-old's settlement, and the BBC has an article about another victim.

Comments

PR What?!?!

[Serapth]

RIAA and PR in the same scentance?

WIthout the word negative in there?

Someone tell me hell froze over!

Re:PR What?!?!

[ajs318]

We used to have a guy here in DERBY who swore he was a Viking and carried a ceremonial sword. He was always having run-ins with the law, but claimed he had a right to carry it as it was an obligation from his religion. He said he'd give up his sword when Hell thawed .....

DAMN MY FLOPPY DRIVE TO HELL!!!!

[Denver_80203]

I wasn't aware I could infringe on copy-right laws with this technology! IT'S A COPY TOOL! Down with Floppy drives!!!

Re:DAMN MY FLOPPY DRIVE TO HELL!!!!

[MoonFog]

Relax, just fill out this form, and RIAA will leave you alone.

Re:Imagine if copyright were abolished.

[trompete]

...and we can all dance around in one giant circle and sing Kum-ba-ya while BillG and Linus play leap-frog.

Survey says: Not this century!

If only I were cuter...

[sremack]

I could steal and get into the newspaper, too. Now I'm old and people probably want me to get fined out the poop-chute.

Re:Imagine if copyright were abolished.

[I'm Spartacus!]

Yeah, that'd be great. No one would write books anymore. No one would make music anymore. No one would make movies anymore. No one would write software anymore. Oh, except for the part-time hobbyists who do these things for fun and don't really have any motivation for doing the best job they possibly can because no one is getting paid for anything.

Honestly, the lack of real-world vision on this site is mind boggling sometimes.

Re:"d-uh, me not know it be stealing.."

[Wakkow]

2 What You Can't Do Under This Licence
# 2.6 Transmit, access or communicate any data that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;

Isn't that just about everything on Kazaa?

Re:$2000 Raised, done and done

[mblase]

Raffling off one's computer parts to pay off the RIAA is almost a confession. True poetic justice would have been for them to raffle/auction off their used CD collection to pay the settlement.

Re:GET REAL! Kazza should take some of the HEAT.

[ATMAvatar]

Since the primary purpose of Kazaa is to tarde pirated music

...and here I thought the primary purpose of Kazaa was to trade porn. It is surprisingly good at this task.