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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Imagine if copyright were abolished.

[Thinkit3]

If copyright were abolished, there'd be no reason to be mad at either Kazaa or the RIAA. Kazaa couldn't charge for the software, and the RIAA couldn't sue for sharing information (which by nature is easily copied). Nobody confused and nobody sued. It will happen.