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

Oh so frosty

[Anonymous Coward]

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Sad news...Recent Events (TM) dead at 2

[Anonymous Coward]

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - The Recent Events (TM) was found dead in its American jingoistic culture this morning.. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the /. community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy Skull & Bones' American Reichstag, there's no denying its contributions to our creeping corporate fascism. Truly an American icon.

John Titor predicted the Segway on 2001-01-29!

[TheMidget]

check here. Search for Ginger. Then search for Scooter. Then ponder the fact that it was publically announced November 2001!

So, was John Titor truly a time traveler, or just a Dean Kamen employee?

Re:Software makers should be liable

[Overly Critical Guy]

Why do I get the feeling that if Linux had some major malfunction, people would be defending it as not liable? Remember the series of major flaws in the 2.4.x series, including the filsystem corrupter?

But when it's Microsoft...well, you know.