12-Year-Old Sued for Music Downloading
Oh dear. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!
The 261 people being sued is national news here in the UK, with the suggestion that something similar could happen here.
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It's national news in the US, too. However, whether anyone likes it or not, the RIAA and friends are perfectly within their rights.
It's the wrong way to accomplish what they want (which is to make money,) but it is within their rights.
And the mother in the story is wrong. What they did technically was illegal.
It's the wrong way to accomplish what they want (which is to make money,) but it is within their rights.
And the mother in the story is wrong. What they did technically was illegal.
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I missed most of it, but even PBS's News Hour with Jim Leher had a segment about the story:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/digit ... index.html
It featured one of the Johns from They Might Be Giants... Chuck Cannon, songwriter of whom I've never heard, made for a particularly dull perspective. He kept talking about intercepting paychecks, copying without permission, and "business models."
Storytelling, out of which music eventually evolved, was a purely beneficial role to society. Even though it distorted the the history or fable like the childhood game of Telephone, they both kept us entertained and kept those same pieces of information from being totally forgotten. There was no "business model" involved in such a role.
If I were a cultural anthropologist, I could probably make some more points about the role of music and storytelling to our culture, and the history and evolution of it, but that might all be lost on a web board about a P2P application.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/digit ... index.html
It featured one of the Johns from They Might Be Giants... Chuck Cannon, songwriter of whom I've never heard, made for a particularly dull perspective. He kept talking about intercepting paychecks, copying without permission, and "business models."
Storytelling, out of which music eventually evolved, was a purely beneficial role to society. Even though it distorted the the history or fable like the childhood game of Telephone, they both kept us entertained and kept those same pieces of information from being totally forgotten. There was no "business model" involved in such a role.
If I were a cultural anthropologist, I could probably make some more points about the role of music and storytelling to our culture, and the history and evolution of it, but that might all be lost on a web board about a P2P application.
The RIAA has been quite disgusting in their tactics, but suing children and now senior citizens shows how despicable they truly are.
http://www.starttherevolution.net/nuke/ ... =1&thold=0
http://www.starttherevolution.net/nuke/ ... =1&thold=0