RIAA Plans Lawsuits Against File Traders
from the sue-your-customers! dept
It appears that the music industry really does mean to go through with their plans to sue all their customers. They are getting ready to file hundreds of lawsuits against people they say are trading illegal files, and plan to keep filing the lawsuits until people stop. That the people they're suing are the biggest "fans" of the music they're producing doesn't seem to occur to the industry. That this might be an opportunity for a business to make money doesn't seem to occur to the industry. Instead, the lawyers in control have convinced them that antagonizing their customers is the way to build a business. As the head of Grokster points out, this is "nothing short of lunacy." It also brings up the quote we posted last week: "When your product is stolen by thieves, you have a police problem. When it is stolen by millions of honest customers, you have a marketing problem." Studies show that 57 million people use file trading software. Those are 57 million fans of music, who are about to hate the music industry. This is a monumentally backwards move by the industry.
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