I know how hard it is to be a student, pay for tuition, books, rent, food, strippers… its tough without the RIAA sending you litigation letters demanding you send them $3,000 – $4,000 dollars to make the whole thing go away, otherwise face a lawsuit which could end up being much more ($222,000 in one case). The record companies point to a decrease of 9.5 percent in album sales in 2007. How about actually take a look at the crap your spewing out of the ass end of your record companies, and maybe consider that people don’t want purchase music when shoving shit directly into your ears would be much easier (and cheaper).
I don’t know why these judges allow these things to go through. College students already have enough problems with debt, without “settling” an unfair case with the RIAA over supposed music sharing. Leads me to lose faith in our lawmakers and judges, allowing the country’s youth to be raped like this. The RIAA has even suggested that students should drop out to pay settlements.
When you ponder this keep in mind that the RIAA is a multi-billion dollar association with absolutely no proof other than the IP address of the computer that shared music, which can be compromised in many ways… Most students do not even know they are “sharing” files because it is enabled by default in most music downloading programs.
Two Things need to happen:
1. RIAA needs to embrace digital content instead of trying to protect a dieing system and suing their own consumers. Or better yet the RIAA needs to roll over and die.
2. Our law makers need to put in place a limit to how much the judgment can be in a case… Like I said in one case $222,000 for downloading a few songs. Also maybe talk to anybody that knows anything about networking and understand this one fact: IP Adress does not equal a person..
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