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RIAA Threatens More Music-Lovers
Xenographic writes "According to this article at SFGate, the RIAA has warned 204 more people that they are pursuing legal action against them. After the uproar over the last batch of lawsuits, however, they're not (yet) suing the people in question, but intend to allow them to settle out of court, first."
...but automatically labeling these newest caught music sharers "music lovers" when we know nothing about them is like calling anti-war demonstrators anti-troop or anti-american. Some of them may actually be music lovers, some casual listeners who downloaded from the worng place at bthe wrong time, but this is Slashdot, for god's sake, not Fox News. We have our biases, but assumptions like this make political propaganda out of what should, by definition, be news. If you want to state an opinion, come out and say it, give it it's own words in the main body text, but don't use doublespeak.
If the RIAA is going to hold the average citizen to such a high standard, I propose that a new law be passed that subjects everyone in the music industry to a mandatory annual IRS tax compliance audit. A tax compliance audit is the audit that requires you to provide documentary proof for every item on your tax return.
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When the RIAA was suing Napster, Kazaa, and others, Slashdot was full of posts claiming that these programs had legitimate uses, and the RIAA should go after people pirating copyrighted works instead of the companines offering P2P software.
Now the RIAA is following the advice that so many Slashdotters offered in the recent past, so why are so many of y'all bitching?
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