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RIAA Announces New Campus Lawsuit Strategy
An anonymous reader writes "The RIAA is once again revising their lawsuit strategy, and will now be sending college students and others "pre-lawsuit letters." People will now be able to settle for a discount. How nice."
Legally, extortion is the unlawful taking of property or money by force, or threat of violence, property damage, harm to reputation, or unfavorable government action (acting under color of law). The Hobbs Act defines extortion as the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.
None of this applies to RIAA's actions in this case. Threatening you with a civil suit for the commission of a tort is not a crime; it happens every day.
Yet another reason not to take Slashdot as a serious venue of news, nor its members as valuable commentators.
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
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Oh, please. Using an emotional word typed in all-caps doesn't make something true. It's not "extortion" to offer settlements. You guys all wanted the RIAA to go after individual infringers back in 2000 and 2001, and now they do that and you complain, so now they offer people a quick way to avoid lawsuits and you don't like THAT either.
Why don't you guys just admit that you're a bunch of pirates who don't want the RIAA to look good in any situation, so that you have someone to scapegoat as the bad guy to take the spotlight off of you? "The RIAA made me do it! They're so evil! Look at how they sue people who are infringing on their rights, the horror!"
"Sufferin' succotash."
Except when they target students on financial aid, whose very education could be depending on the few thousands of dollars they're demanding!
Simple solution: do not download copyrighted material that you have not rights to, dumbass.
I guess mod points got in the hands a the wrong trolls today.
And BTW, my post is talking about the same post as the one I quoted. Not about the post I quoted. I think that should be sufficiently confusing for both of us. It certainly is for me anyway. :)
And now someone with mod points can mod us all Offtopic and serve us our just deserts.
There is no -1 Disagree mod. Slashdot.org/faq defines mod options. USE IT.