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Suing Your Customers: Winning Business Strategy?

Posted by michael on from the history-lesson dept.

Cobarde Anonimo writes "The Knowledge at Wharton has an interesting text about the RIAA strategy of suing its customers. As Wharton legal studies professor G. Richard Shell writes below, this same tactic was tried 100 years ago against Henry Ford. It didn't work then, and it won't work today."

2 of 395 comments (clear)

  1. Re:One big difference by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Aah, but the RIAA, etc has the US government on its side, doesn't it? DCMA, copyright extensions, etc, etc. Do you really need further proof that your government is run by bought-off politicians for special interests rather than for public interest?

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  2. Re:They ARE customers! by borgboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I bet that shoplifters pay for things sometimes too.

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    meh.