Record'g industry sues individual file-swappers....

[FuseU1]

Just thought some of u guys might want 2 c this...
http://CNN.com
[AOL keyword: CNN]...
...or, MORE SPECIFICALLY:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne...ing/index.html
CNN - 261 music file swappers sued; amnesty program unveiled By Jeordan Legon
Monday, September 8, 2003 Posted: 2:55 PM EDT (1855 GMT)
Why suing college students for music downloading is right
TIME.com: Special report gives you sound advice
We hope to encourage even the worst offenders to change their behavior, and acquire the music they want through legal means.
-- Cary Sherman, RIAA president
Internet music
Patents, Copyright and Trademarks
Recording Industry Association of America
More information about RIAA's amnesty program is available at
www.musicunited.org.


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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 08, 2003 04:28 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>

[royerin]

Apparently the file-sharers don't give a Shi'ite...

http://netscape5.marketwatch.com/new...0FA7C27920B%7D

[FuseU1]

LOL, Roy

... interesting & good points of view on that link... i especially liked these 2:

"Consumers will not tolerate their [record companies] price gouging any longer [& the control of what the masses are exposed to] and they need to come up with something else besides suing college kids. The industry has gone unchecked too long and has passed the cost down to us. Now they are crying." - & -

"Now what I would love to see is all music artists selling their stuff directly to music lovers, bypassing the music industry completely.
That would bring more money to the artists, more music to the people, and the extra pleasure of watching rich music industry execs pulling their hair out."

...Personally, it sounds a little like a "paper-tiger/gorilla pounding its chest/cry wolf/chicken-little" sorta thing [last-ditch intimidation tactic, perhaps?!]...