May 27, 2004

RIAA sues single mom making $21K/yr

Good going guys.

Here's a question to be posed....Is it fair to sue a 41 year old single Mom who ostensibly had a computer in her house to encourage her daughter's education, but who herself could not use that computer?

Posted by joy at May 27, 2004 03:31 PM | TrackBack
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Frivolous lawsuits are bad in general...but the RIAA has taken it to an entirely new level of uselessness. They are apologists for an industry that puts out subpar products and they reply to their customers' (I hate the term consumers) frustrations with high prices, low quality and limitations on fair use. The fact that they are suing those least able to pay is just sick. It's akin to picking on the smallest kid in the playground multiplied by 1000 (estimated figure).

It's a damn shame.
-D

Posted by: Derek at May 28, 2004 09:44 AM

I really think everything they are doing is worthless. First off making a women like that pay tons of money is just crazy and heartless. Second, all of these lawsuits, don't scare me one bit, I still download as much music as I always have, by doing this they aren't making any "friends", I can see them soon going down the path as SCO.

Posted by: Colin at May 28, 2004 11:44 AM

Sadly, you're preaching to the choir. There are a whole bunch of people who _have_ been taken in by RIAA propoganda, but I don't think they're reading our weblogs... :)

Posted by: Harald at May 28, 2004 01:27 PM

your post has inspired some comments over on blogcritics...

Posted by: ilan at May 29, 2004 03:37 AM