RIAA is Spamming?



Filed under: March 9, 2007, 10:26 pmFiled under: Uncategorized

Some idiot at PolicyBytes wrote an article called ‘Should RIAA sue college students who facilitate massive copyright piracy?.

I am living in the world where RIAA’s dumbness is universally accepted, and when I go through entries like this, I’m feeling like I’ve just had ice-cold shower. It is shocking, yet refreshing.

Not trying to rebutt claims about ‘piracy = stealing’, outright insults at CopyLeft movement activits and silly ideas like ‘if you contribute to economy, you are against piracy’, I will just focus on title.

Should RIAA sue college students? Perhaps, it is jury’s prerogative to determine who’s right and who’s wrong. As silly RIAA’s claims may be, I am not the power to stop it suing pirate students.

Yet, RIAA doesn’t have enough money to pay lawyers for thousands or millions of lawsuits.

What RIAA shouldn’t do is to abuse electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages, which are almost universally undesired. To those who didn’t get it: it is the Wikipedia definition of spamming, and its exactly what RIAA is currently doing with college students.

Spamming is gross federal offence. Should we sue RIAA?