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RIAA Vs. Web 2.0? Social Media and Litigation

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "After learning that Professor Nesson's CyberLaw class at Harvard Law School has set up a Facebook page to assist in its defense of Joel Tenenbaum in an RIAA case, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, Wendy Davis of the Online Daily Examiner opines that 'Web 2.0,' and more particularly, the 'social media,' are playing an increasingly important role in RIAA litigation. We at Slashdot have already learned that principle, and have made good use of it, as have our friends at Groklaw."

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  1. Social Acceptability by fibrewire · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe I'm missing something here, but why can the RIAA and MPAA sue individuals for file sharing? Can't they just back the movie and music studios and labels out there? Whats wrong with making money from box office movies? It's not like i can download a Theater or a Concert! Those things are awesome, and they are irreplacable and not cheaply duplicatable! But come on now, putting things in a data format and giving them out to everyone and telling them not to copy it, what did they expect? Are they just angry because their business model is no longer viable? It's free enterprise, plain and simple. If someone can do the same for cheaper... What if Target went to court and said "City of Los Angeles, please give us the video records of customers going to Wal-Mart. We would like to sue individuals for shopping there since we can't stop Wal-Mart from being so cost-effective, and we're holding the DMV an DOT liable as conspirators unless you comply." Have we completely gone insane? Why do we tolerate this?