The RIAA's double standard
The RIAA settled with a 12-year old filetrader for $2000, who admitted that sharing and downloading songs was immoral, illegal, harmful to artists, a Satanic ritual, pro-pornography, anti-American, bla bla bla. Once again President Cary Sherman and others use the battlecry that her activities with copyrighted material are akin to shoplifting, which is the best analog with the physical world they can think of.
The problem here is, the example of the guy who tried to sell his downloaded song (from Apple's Itunes, a "legitimate" online music service) on eBay. The RIAA claims there is no analog with the physical world. They insist the guy has no right to resell his purchased item (as he would be able to with books or CD's).
So the RIAA can play double-standard with the Law? Do they intend to crack down on used CD stores next? Eliminate libraries? Make reading borrowed books to child akin to shoplifting? Can the RIAA decide anything that they don't like to be illegal? They are just a trade group. A cartel. They are not police, yet they act like a Mafia now.
The RIAA settled with a 12-year old filetrader for $2000, who admitted that sharing and downloading songs was immoral, illegal, harmful to artists, a Satanic ritual, pro-pornography, anti-American, bla bla bla. Once again President Cary Sherman and others use the battlecry that her activities with copyrighted material are akin to shoplifting, which is the best analog with the physical world they can think of.
The problem here is, the example of the guy who tried to sell his downloaded song (from Apple's Itunes, a "legitimate" online music service) on eBay. The RIAA claims there is no analog with the physical world. They insist the guy has no right to resell his purchased item (as he would be able to with books or CD's).
So the RIAA can play double-standard with the Law? Do they intend to crack down on used CD stores next? Eliminate libraries? Make reading borrowed books to child akin to shoplifting? Can the RIAA decide anything that they don't like to be illegal? They are just a trade group. A cartel. They are not police, yet they act like a Mafia now.
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