RIAA Starts Going After Individuals
from the gearing-up dept
Clearly, the RIAA is going on the offensive. First, they convince the DOJ to waste their valuable time and resources going after teenagers sharing files, and now they're asking a federal judge to force Verizon to reveal the name of someone they say is filesharing. Verizon refused to give up the name, saying they could legally liable if they did. This appears to be the first step by the RIAA towards specifically suing individual file traders in civil cases. I'd just like to remind the music industry that if they put half as much effort into actually producing a service that gave customers what they wanted, they wouldn't have these problems - and they would be more profitable with happy customers.
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Ya know
And since it's bad and easy to get away with, people will flock to it like crazy.
I have seen many reports where CD Sales have not decreased due to file sharing. In fact, one comes to mind where the first 2 years of Napster CD Sales were up 15% or so over the 2 prior years.
So I wonder if the RIAA is doing "just enough" to curb the major offenders and then publizing all of this to spin it as something bad or naughty to attract more people into doing it. And in doing so, they dont have to spend any money developing their own service.
Maybe this IS their business model. Mmm. Then again maybe they are just greedy morons.
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Good. About time.
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