The guy wants to get "attention." He wants to say anything at all to get your attention, for so called "brand name recognition." It's the "shock value."
He doesn't want to get the attention of people stealing music, or to shock them. He wants to get his name in the news. That is all he cares about: himself and his career. Why should he care about anyone else? He is, I think, a greedy bastard polatition after all - so you tell me what he wants.
What would actually happen if he jailed "a few" people is that filesharing would be mentioned in the news, and even more people would learn about filesharing and then commit the very crime he intended to prevent!
In the long long ago, in places where people were drafted, people failed to show up after being drafted. They were arrested and prosecuted. In an act of disobedience, the news of the prosecutions caused even MORE peopple to fail to show up after being drafted, and then even MORE.
It's millions of file traders against the minority of polatitions and employees. We outnumber even the RIAA! We can lobby congress en masse, remind the media that we are people too, and just as the media companies violate federal antitrust laws and get caught but nothing happens to them, we violate federal copyright laws downloading their music, and nothing happens to us.
The government eventually abandoned the draft altogether. We shall prevail.
I think that they are threatening to do this and won't actually do it, with the hope that some people will pay in advance for fear that they'd just have to pay later anyway.
They wouldn't risk actually filing a lawsuit because they could lose if they did that. It's better to pretend to be going to file a lawsuit, e.g. to threaten to sue. They will threaten people, saying pay or else - and for those who refuse to pay, SCO will offer to settle for just $1.00 rather than risk losing in court.
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The guy wants to get "attention." He wants to say anything at all to get your attention, for so called "brand name recognition." It's the "shock value."
He doesn't want to get the attention of people stealing music, or to shock them. He wants to get his name in the news. That is all he cares about: himself and his career. Why should he care about anyone else? He is, I think, a greedy bastard polatition after all - so you tell me what he wants.
What would actually happen if he jailed "a few" people is that filesharing would be mentioned in the news, and even more people would learn about filesharing and then commit the very crime he intended to prevent!
In the long long ago, in places where people were drafted, people failed to show up after being drafted. They were arrested and prosecuted. In an act of disobedience, the news of the prosecutions caused even MORE peopple to fail to show up after being drafted, and then even MORE.
It's millions of file traders against the minority of polatitions and employees. We outnumber even the RIAA! We can lobby congress en masse, remind the media that we are people too, and just as the media companies violate federal antitrust laws and get caught but nothing happens to them, we violate federal copyright laws downloading their music, and nothing happens to us.
The government eventually abandoned the draft altogether. We shall prevail.
They wouldn't risk actually filing a lawsuit because they could lose if they did that. It's better to pretend to be going to file a lawsuit, e.g. to threaten to sue. They will threaten people, saying pay or else - and for those who refuse to pay, SCO will offer to settle for just $1.00 rather than risk losing in court.
It's a pretty standard legal technique.