RIAA Goes After Fair Use Doctrine

[Win]

Gary,

Could be. I thought it was more of a scare / deterrent / exemplar tactic than a revenue raiser, but who really knows?

It seems to me that they go after easy targets - students, idiots, people who think the law is stupid or doesn't apply to them - that type of thing.

I would think people who have enough wealth to be worth going after would also be smart enough not to risk losing it by disregarding copyrights on something you can license legally for $0.99.

Maybe they have a big book full of the IP addresses of illegal file swappers and they just open it up and pick IP's at random, the Navin Jones model of litigation targeting!

 

[Gary Allan]

Yes, it could just be a situation where "Hey, we had to ruin someone's life ..we picked you

. It's nothing personal.". I do agree about the $0.99 thing. The industry has reacted and made it cheap enough to be honest.

 

[Anduril]

But I shouldn't have to pay 99 cents to put something I already own on my iPod. You're missing the point here.

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: Anduril
But I shouldn't have to pay 99 cents to put something I already own on my iPod. You're missing the point here.


Hey, pal ..you got my full support

..but he was apparently caught offering it for distribution via Kaza

A legit user license for that type of distribution is more than most people are worth.

 

[Anduril]

Anyone with half a brain will (a) not use Kazaa, (b) turn their uploads off, and (c) tunnel their traffic through a proxy or series of proxies, such as TOR.