I'm sure most of you are awway of the recent blevy of lawsuits that the RIAA has filed against us common folk in the hopes of killing the MP3 download industry. Well, now it seems that these folks are coming after us again for ripping CDs to our hard drives.
See this article from PCMag contributing editor John C. Dvorak.
Suing customers for ripping CDs is an attack against fair use that, if successful, would reverse legal precedents and give some momentum to the slow effort to eliminate all consumer recording devices. This would include VCRs, CD burners, DVD burners, DVRs, and even copying machines.
And there goes everything that those in the tech industry as near and dear......
Not too mention that if we allow this sort of industrialized police action to continue unabated (like the RIAA is hoping for), then the next thing they'll start coming after is the Bill of Rights. The "connect the dots" path is patently clear, at least it is here on the base. Don't believe us, then sit there and do nothing but when Big Brother comes knocking at your door...don't say you haven't been warned.
Instead of finding some way to benefit from easy copying, these two associations and the companies they represent honestly believe that clogging the American legal system with John Doe nuisance lawsuits will somehow put an end to piracy—
Nope, all it does is clog our already stretched to the limit court system with patently frivilous lawsuits. Where is the reform that the Congresscritters said was coming????
Obviously teh folks at RIAA and MPAA need a few more lessons in history. For as long as there has been a need for something that a large population of people want, there has always been the subculture of piracy. Lawsuits AIN'T gonna change that, in fact it's problab y going to make the piracy market florish even further. it'll just go a little bit further underground.
These folks clearly are mad with power and greed and obviously need more to satiate their thirst. Pity they are too near-sighted to see their own misfortune.
