RIAA File-Sharing Lawsuits Top 10,000 People Sued

An anonymous reader writes "While Firefox broke the 50,000,000 barrier today, the RIAA broke a more dubious barrier this week: It has now sued over 10,000 file sharers for copyright infringement, making it a good time to ask if the RIAA will ever throw in the towel. Taking an academic look at what's best for the industry, this economics article shows the financial upside to P2P file sharing. And on the flip side, this legal article argues that file swappers have a constitutional right to pay much smaller penalties than the millions of dollars they can be liable for under copyright law, making the RIAA's lawsuits much less profitable."

Comments

Lawsuits are a Revenue Stream, not a Loss for RIAA

[Cryofan]

You misunderstand something: these lawsuits are not costing them anyway. On the contrary, these lawsuits are optimized so as to MAKE them money. These lawsuits are a revenue stream for them, NOT something that costs them money at all. This is just another business for them. Why on earth would they stop doing this?

They are doing EXACTLY what the American system and the American Constitution were DESIGNED to enable--specifically, cornering and putting at a disadvantage a set of Americans and then and exploiting them. This is what America has been about from the very beginning. Remember that whole African slavery, indentured servitude, white slavery thing? THat was the launching pad of America, and we are right on path here with large amounts of organized capital exploiting human beings. So what are you bitching about? Move to France if you don't like it! Oh, wait, the French are too smart and too much in control of their control to let in too many immigrants. Never mind....