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Dead end for the RIAA??

A federal appeals court is now examining the Verizon supoena case in light of the RIAA's Sue the World program. The Verizon case stated that ISPs must hand over the information about their customers if the RIAA accuses the customers of pirating copyrighted music. The Sue the World program was green-lighted by the outcome of this case. And the RIAA arrived at suing end users because of the setbacks endured in the Grokster case, which said that P2P tools were legal.

While this issue is far from resolved, I have to examine the path this adventure is taking. First the RIAA/MPAA spends tons of money on buying congresscritters to get ass clown laws like the Home Recording Act and the DMCA enacted. These overarching laws are heavily jilted in favor of the RIAA/MPAA and their cronies. But now that the rubber meets the road, these laws are being examined in the courts and the RIAA/MPAA seems to be loosing ground slowly.

Not surprising, really. If these laws are jilted in favor of The Cartel, the judges across america are increasingly scrutinizing these ass clown laws as the RIAA blunders into stupid lawsuits, like suing 12 year old children. If this trend keeps up, the RIAA will be stuck with a set of unenforceable laws, or worse yet, have these laws repealed altogether.

Unenforceable laws are not much good, are they? If things go this way, the RIAA will have its last escape path cut off. They will have not choice but to adapt to the times and embrace the net. Or die.

How is that for some rose colored lens idealism??

Posted by Mayhem at September 18, 2003 01:36 AM