RIAA Sues 12yr Old Girl

But...

The entire 'industry' or whatever, is too big to really police in such a manner as they are trying to do. The last time I was on kazaa, I think the stats at the bottom read something like 10 million users, sharing like 80 million gigs of information just on Kazaa. I mean, that's one network. Then there's the old crap, like gnutella, and whatever else, which are seldom used by the hardcore downloaders. They're always going to be 2 steps behind. I mean, no one can know what's happening on the entire internet at any given time. What about p2p setups, just on small College or High School LAN's? I mean, you can turn AIM or ICQ into kazaa, at any given time. What about Apple's rendezvous? Then there's direct connect. How many people are on that?

I mean, the entire situation is just too big, and I think they're going about it the wrong way by suing a freakin' 12 year old girl. I mean, any way you slice it, no matter if the parent's are at fault, it's just bad PR for an organization like the RIAA to go after a 12 YEAR OLD GIRL. And seriously, are people going to buy a product from a company that they fear might sue them? I mean...do they seriously think this is going to work?

You know what I say? The last CD I bought was in tenth grade. It was $18.99+ 8% sales tax. I'm 18 now, and I Always have new music. People are always coming to me, asking me about bands, and which CD's they should buy or download. I am the music guru to all of the people I know.

That should give you an idea of how much music I download.

You know what I say?

Bring it on RIAA....

Bring it on...

Well, then it's dumb on their part to make a claim like that because if you steal a CD, the record company's not going to sue you for copyright infringement, but rather they (Who isn't really 'they', but rather the vendor, who owns the actual CD's) But rather the company will pursue criminal charges on shoplifting, and/or posession of stolen material.

In this situation, however, if it were fully equated to shoplifting, can't really be defined as stolen, because they have no proof where the files came from. You could have borrowed a friend's copy of a given CD, and loaded it onto your HD. I mean, Kazaa (or whatever) cannot be equated to a store in which there are cash registers, security cameras, and so on. I mean, they can't prove where a given file came from. It's not like if a friend gave me a CD as a gift, then the police came after me, after tracing the physical item back to a record store, from where it was stolen (or at least unaccounted for in inventory). Then, I could be charged with posession of stolen property. But this, this is completely different. They can't say where she got it from. Her having Kazaa on her computer and her having some 1000+ songs on her computer is merely circumstancial, unless they completely confiscate the computer, verify all of her history, examine the hard disks with a freakin' electron microscope to find anything that had been deleted, and whatever the hell else they want to do to find out that she has some songs. Probably not even full albums. Then, mind you, there is the issue of who owns the computer, and whether or not they're in some way responsible, then given the fact that she's a minor, and so on, and so on, and so on.

You know what I say?

You wanna get on people for downloading stuff? Go bust some Goddamn kiddy porn perverts and get off us for having some music.

Copyright laws need to be rewritten, dammit