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RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers
debatem1 writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, the RIAA has decided to abandon its current tactic of suing individuals for sharing copyrighted music. Ongoing lawsuits will be pursued to completion, but no new ones will be filed. The RIAA is going to try working with the ISPs to limit file-sharing services and cut off repeated users. This very surprising development apparently comes as a result of public distaste for the campaign." An RIAA spokesman is quoted as saying that the litigation campaign has been "successful in raising the public's awareness that file-sharing is illegal."
What about if 99.9% of all butter knives are used to kill someone... does that slightly change things?
> Oh, and my reaction is the reaction you could expect from a large part of the Europeans.
Maybe, but the Dutch hate their language. I for one would not mind if everything on TV were English (exception: the news). English is such a beautiful language compared to Dutch, you can say the exact same thing three times without ever using the same word.
Not that I would completely abandon Dutch, but I don't need my series in Dutch.
Dutch and English are part of the same family of languages which makes learning one if you know the other somewhat easier (akin to switching from Spanish to French). IIRC, German, Norweigan, and Swedish are all part of the same family too.
It's a shame though. Aside from OCCASIONALLY German, it seems that no one living outside of most of those countries ever learns those languages. In general, at MOST schools I've seen at the high school level, if you take a foreign language you generally have to choose between French or Spanish, neither of which is as easy a transition from English, as say, German. At the college level the options open up a bit. At that level I had French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, Chinese, and Japanese to choose from.
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