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RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College
boarder8925 writes "An MIT student accused of copyright infringement has been documenting her struggles with the RIAA. Upon trying to negotiate her settlement, a representative told her that "the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements.""
block out the RIAA.
Any fool can criticise, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. - Benjamin Franklin
This kind of behavior is going to turn any last supporters of these cluesless greedy bastards against them. If Orrin Hatch can still support them in congress after that, then he seriously needs to be voted out of office. Ah, he needs to be voted out of office anyways. Utah, PLEASE do us a favor and get rid of that moron.
So what... if you are stupid enough to keep downloading songs via services that are questionable then I don't feel sorry for you. Take some responsibility and don't do it in the first place. Now, RIAA's tactics are for crap but so are the dorks who download / don't pay for Music. I just can feel sorry for either one.
"I wonder if there's some sort of cautionary tale that should make people skeptical of organizations that attempt to re-define emotionally charged terms..."
Two I can think of off the top of my head:
[1] "1984", George Orwell
[2] Republican party, years 2000, 2004
It does get tiring to see so many people defending the person who knowingly broke the laws (copyright laws), and going after whoever (in this case the RIAA) for being evil. If they were on the other side of the fence having their stuff stolen, they would be glad to have an "evil" corporation defend them.
I absolutely LOVE the part where you lump mind-destroying narcotics in with the rest of the list. It certainly lends credence to everything else you have to say.
Actually all I said was that kids don't have to pirate music, and that if they decide to do it anyway, they're not really in a position to complain when the music piracy boogeyman comes for them.
For my money, the best part of your rant is the part where you totally fail to come up with any objection to what I said, and are forced to object to other things I didn't actually say, in order to have an excuse to rant in the first place.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
I recall a case a couple months ago where some DNA evidence was found that could possibly prove a man put to death was innocent. All the way up to his death he insisted he didn't do it, and finally this evidence could potentially prove his case.
Apparently this was a rather large news story, because there were many news articles. Almost every one I read noted that it was a big deal because it would be the first time someone who was put to death would later be found to be innocent.
I looked through your link, then did some Google searches, and found no mention at all of a man put to death later being found innocent in America. Just wanted to let you know, so you don't try that argument again.
Did you know that you ended every sentence with a "..." where only one "." was necessary? Just checkin'.
Besides, only a moron would confusing NOTINFRINGING IP (supporting indie artists distributing their works for free) with INFRINGING IP (downloading pirated music from torrents and kazaa).
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