That's Reductio ad Hitlerum (or more currently, Goldwin's Law). They are claiming a ridiculous circular thing (that since copyright is legal a judge in a copyright association can't be biased for copyright and so TPB has no case because they violated copyright, which is what's in discussion). Please don't reduce it to a nazi apology.
As with all these filters, my gut reaction is "meh". Rapidshare has always been the land of the password-protected rar file, anyway. Good luck knowing what's inside that!! And also, because of the way it works it's really not that good for massive infringement.
What's weird is that 30k albums is ok for promotion if coming from a label, but if someone gets it from bittorrent (and gets her the same promotion or more for the same amount of money) then suddenly it's immoral. And please don't start on the "she couldn't have recorded it without" because it was already stated that she could have.
1. The RIAA doesn't have a blog. Blogs have comments. The RIAA's is a news site.
2. Echoing what another comment said about the "if they make money I deserve some" logic.
3. They say about not charging radio stations: "If this is the price of gaining a minimum level of protection for the future, we are willing to pay it…". So what was that? Buying some time to come back every few years? The RIAA has been accused of that (trying the same tactics over and over and over and over again). I think they're simply confirming by not showing any shame on saying "I'm willing to give up this if you give me that" and then a few years later saying "I want this too!! I deserve it".
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Oh, and frist.
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On the post: RIAA Has A Blog? And They Use It To Read My Mind!
2. Echoing what another comment said about the "if they make money I deserve some" logic.
3. They say about not charging radio stations: "If this is the price of gaining a minimum level of protection for the future, we are willing to pay it…". So what was that? Buying some time to come back every few years? The RIAA has been accused of that (trying the same tactics over and over and over and over again). I think they're simply confirming by not showing any shame on saying "I'm willing to give up this if you give me that" and then a few years later saying "I want this too!! I deserve it".
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