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5 Years of RIAA Filesharing Lawsuits
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "David Kravets of Wired.com, who provided in-person gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Capitol v. Thomas trial last year, takes stock of the RIAA's 5-year-old litigation campaign, concluding it is 'at a crossroads', and noting that 'billions of copies of copyrighted songs are now changing hands each year on file sharing services. All the while, some of the most fundamental legal questions surrounding the legality of file sharing have gone unanswered. Even the future of the RIAA's only jury trial victory — against Minnesota mother Jammie Thomas — is in doubt. Some are wondering if the campaign has shaped up as an utter failure.'"
seriously, though, WTH do all the damn summaries end with rhetorical questions or even just plain rhetoric?
Oh the irony!
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
...laughing my a$$ off! I wish I had mod points!
Or would I just waste them on some other comment?
Never confuse movement with action. --Hemingway
I see your prohibition, and raise you two streisand effects.
Karma cannot be described by words alone.
File Sharing is WRONG! Think of all the unborn children of todays artists, that won't be able to ride the coattails of what their parents have done. Who will have to go out and get jobs and work for most of their lives. All because you won't pay for the songs their parents have written and recorded, and keep paying for those songs 70+ years after they have died.
There no longer is any money to be made creating music because of YOU!
I predict the entire music industry will be force to close up shop in 2-3 years tops. Then there will be no new music for anyone! And it's your fault!
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Has the press gotten so pathetic...
Yes.
File Sharorist
Yeah, that was a good one.
But why do I ask those questions?
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
If you go on a backpacking trip and you are eaten by a bear, the fact that the bear is no longer hungry does not mean that your trip is not a failure.
Benefits of companies hired to attack P2P are irrelevant to RIAA's campaign outcome, which is ultimately to increase profits. Since they paid a lot of money to third parties and got nothing, it is a failure.
Those who would give up liberty to obtain working drivers, deserve neither liberty nor working drivers.
The Conquistador, I'm sure. They run tight.
Me, I think I usually ask questions because I want to know the answers. Which means they're not "rhetorical" at all.
The person who suggested that I do it to provoke reader interest doesn't know me very well. I'm much too unsophisticated for that level of planning.
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
Then there will be no new music for anyone! And it's your fault!
That's cool. My 200 Gb. music collection will see me through the dark times.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
They have failed repeatedly. They just have loads of money and can just keep failing over and over until they run out. When will that be?
Hey! Let's leave Microsoft out of this.
The content of most files downloaded is always questionable.
Yeah. Whenever Firefox is downloaded, Ballmer is on his knees and questions God, "Why?"
hilarious