Music Piracy - Corporations infringing on your rights.

[Sfrius]

As a citizen of the United States I think it is outrageous how someone making millions of dollars a year more than I, can pursue this issue with such audacity. In fact I think they are being quite ignorant; they plan to give out thousands of subpuenas, yet there are millions of people downloading music. The only people who are caught are the users who don't know how to protect themselves. Think about how long piracy in movies and gaming categories has been amply pursued by authorities, yet they never seem to be able to put and end to these "illegal acts" as they call them.
Users who use file sharing programs basically enter a community where no one person is committing crime. Like J-walking, who really walks half a block to use a street light anymore? The music industry has become a band of oligopolies(combinations of companies working together to control a market) they have become increasing greedy and as the denominations of the past challenged our freedom, people throughtout the world should question the ideas the music industry just as they once did. Law is not sacred, its is anything but that and should be considered profane(unlike our beliefs the law is questionable).
I feel sorry for the people who are being sued that don't really understand their situation. The music industry is now using their coercion as a scare tactic to discourage people from downloading; the music industry doesn't understand that... no one person can learn a lesson until the lesson becomes part of their lives.
The music industry can challenge what I say here but it will be based on how they wish to further their economic gains. They can't pretend they don't make money; consumers who buy CD's will buy CD's and the people without money or the willingness to give up 20 dollars(what an insane amount of money for a piece of plastic! What happened to 10 cent records, which were larger pieces of plastic?)will continue to borrow CD's and copy them for themselves. Obviously, the internet makes this alot easier. Music Industry Vs. The People, who will win? We will see who has more power in the upcoming months, the corporations or the common man. (I guess we will have to rely on the justice system, which has always peeked through the blind fold and tipped its scales measuring power instead of right and wrong.)

I especially liked it when JAN JARBOE RUSSELL said (about the 12 year old briana and her single parent mother) who was sued-
"The RIAA might know music, but it's completely tone-deaf when it comes to effectively changing the behavior of 12-year-olds -- in other words, the primary market of musicians everywhere."

"The only two lessons that Brianna could have possibly learned from illegally downloading at least 1,000 songs from the Internet -- including "If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands" -- is that no one in the music industry is very happy these days and that the RIAA has the public-relations skills of a schoolyard bully."

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