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.

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More info on 12yr old girl

[linuxkrn]

There is some more information here and here.

At least the P2P United group stepped in, offering to pay the fine.
Saying "We don't condone copyright infringement, but it's time for the RIAA's winged monkeys to fly back to the castle and leave the Munchkins alone."

Seems to me they are using shock and awe. The girls mother, when confronted with the charge, instantly agreed to settle the action.

$2000 Raised, done and done

[aliens]

Raffle nets $2000

The sister site of HardOCP

Very cool of them to do this. The 12yo might come out the better for being sued.

Re:Angry with Kazaa?

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, re the McDonalds case, McDonalds had settled dozens of lawsuits over the exact same thing already, and McDonalds knew that the coffee served was too hot for consumption, and refused to do anything about it.

And she didn't spill it. The cup melted.

techtv Music Wars

[Wakkow]

Watch the Music Wars special on TechTV Friday. It's supposed to be an open talk between major players in this whole ordeal. Unfortunately, as of yesterday, no one from the RIAA has yet to give them a yes or no.

No, its also for legal uses.

[nurb432]

The last 2 files i got via p2p was a FBSD iso, and several *legal* ebooks i wasnt able to find via googling..

Pehraps its commonly used for pirating, but its not the ONLY use..

Woo! FTP and Usenet will be illegal next

[Anonymous Coward]

And usenet. Wait until congress finds out about all that child porn sitting on all those usenet servers.

I would fall over laughing if some major backbone provider like AT&T gets raided because they have gigs of child porn sitting on their news servers.

Fun stuff!

Re:Software makers should be liable

[Anonymous Coward]

I really wish you would stop quoting this case without actually bothering to check the facts. The coffee was way too hot - close to a boiling point. That's not a normal way to serve coffee. A perfectly good reason to sue and quite frankly I don't why you would have a problem.

For your information, every other silly case against McDonalds (like the recent one about parents who accused McDonalds for making their kids fat) has been thrown out.

Re:Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies

[bigjocker]

You have posted (as an Anonymous Coward) several links to books on amazon.com with you as a refferer (you make some $$ with each sale made through that link), and the mods keep modding you up.

This is a spammer, people, don't click the link, you give him money through that link.