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[somedaybitch]

maybe i'm naive, but i think that winning a 200k plus expenses judgment against a single mother of 2 that makes 36k a year is only gonna piss people off MORE, and ignite a Robin Hoodesque sort of retaliatory behavior on the part of music downloaders. the RIAA is going the way of the dinosaurs and everybody knows it but them. i could feel bad about that, and yet......

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[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

those guys think they have problems now? heh. they are going to get eaten alive, and my sympathy factor for them is deeply in the negative numbers.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. These are the same parents that whine at their kids to behave. The same kids I expect to see not respecting their fellow man, or in jail because everything is owed to them.

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

I read something in wired about how the number of ill-downloaders has tripled since 2003 when the RIAA started this gig, so that lies much about the dissuasion factor. What I found difficult and chilling is that it seems some of the evidence rules seem shallower than I expected...

Wired

McMegan wrote something about how she retroactively hates Sonny Bono for pushing through the legislation on copyright years ago. I can see copyright of 10 or 20 years... but 95? that fuels in part what the RIAA does simply by making that right a business right and not the individuals right:

Sonny Bono

I mean I understand some of the ramifications to children and so forth, but really, if it's to pass into the public domain at some point, why so ling? :shrug:

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

what Bono did was nothing less than an abomination.

[filmg33k.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of setting up a TOR server, or maybe I'll join a darknet...

I mean, I just spent about $90US on the special collection of Radiohead's new album because I believe in supporting them. And I'll almost always buy a CD (sometimes several) when I go to a concert.

But give more money to the RIAA and its members, after their bullying, their backwards thinking, and now this? Yeah, no...

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::cheers you on:::