RIAA persecutes grandma
In a move certain to generate sympathy for the embattled recording industry, the RIAA has decided to persecute not only those who download music, but their grandmothers, parents and roommates. As the AP reports:
The president of the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group for the largest music labels, said lawyers will pursue downloaders regardless of personal circumstances because it would deter other Internet users.
"The idea really is not to be selective, to let people know that if they're offering a substantial number of files for others to copy, they are at risk," Cary Sherman said. "It doesn't matter who they are."
This kind of judiciousness has always won the RIAA praise. "pour l'encouragement des autres." What a great idea.
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Buckethead, don't you mean
Buckethead, don't you mean "prosecute"?... oh wait... you don't.
I want to like the RIAA. I WANT to back them in their quest to crack down on illegal file sharing. It... is... ILLEGAL. But it's like wanting to like the LAPD back during the Rodney King days. For every one good thing they do, they do five disastrous, destructive, and utterly shit-headed bad things.
This is going to blow up in their faces if they actually take Grandma away.
The last line in the article
The last line in the article is classic, too: "I think they're trying to scare people," Barnes said.