RIAA being sued

[Lestat]

A while ago i posted a News item about a Grandmother being sued by the RIAA for downloading music in Texas. Well she is now countersuing for Illegal Investigations. With the whole entrapment thing, they are just making matters worse for themselves. Suing the wrong people, bringing to light more and more how to get music online and making people feel okay about it cause of there underhanded actions.

Maybe if we are lucky we will soon see telethons and adverts for poor deprived music artists. Oh wait probably not, Modanna with her 9 homes and recent controversy over Live Earth Is it all just smoke.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070704-riaa-sued-for-using-illegal-investigatory-practices.html

one women wins.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070604-riaa-throws-in-the-towel-in-atlantic-v-andersen.html

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070604-florida-defendant-goes-after-riaa-for-fraud-conspiracy-and-extortion.html

[Lestat]

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41031

RIAA LOSE SUCKERS

[baxio]

Suing and countersuing. Isn't America great?

I've stopped using p2p now myself, as the PC I was using (the family one, not my gaming rig!) was limping along with viruses and spyware which must've come from Limewire but AVG and spybot just wern't them picking up. It's funny how that put me off more than being sued, but there we have it.

[Lestat]

Thats what they wanted, The RIAA and MPAA were caught uploading viruses and trojans onto p2p clients a while ago, they try it on Bittorrent, But they have pretty much stopped now as they got alot of abuse about it and it was easy to find out.

[Gamith]

Thats what they wanted, The RIAA and MPAA were caught uploading viruses and trojans onto p2p clients a while ago, they try it on Bittorrent, But they have pretty much stopped now as they got alot of abuse about it and it was easy to find out.

Distributing viruses and trojans? now that's GOT to be illegal. I wonder how long it'll be before the artists start up their own schemes to sell their music and bypass the companies altogether - all the RIAA etc are doing are punishing the people that actually want to listen to their 'clients' output.

Though of course the thing to bear in mind is that music industry is not there for the artists, it's there for the stockholders and management to make loads of money and drive around in limos.

ttfn