At last folks it seem the light of reality has beamed down upon the RIAA and its members, or has it ?
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33022/120/The Recording Industry Association of America’s massive lawsuit campaign to crack down on music pirates has generated a lot of bad PR, while any good that has come out of it remains controversial at best
“Litigation tends to generate more heat, friction, and headlines,” Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the RIAA told us. “What is the most important anti-piracy strategy is aggressive licensing and offering great legal alternatives. That is what our member companies obviously do and our job is to complement that, which is the most important thing to do to win over fans.”
According to the latest statistics from the RIAA, there were over 7.8 million households in March 2007 in the U.S. that illegally downloaded music versus 6.9 million households in April 2003, when the litigation campaign began. However, while this number suggests that the lawsuits have been counter-productive there is also the fact that the broadband penetration rate in the U.S. has also more than doubled since 2003.
“I don’t think [the litigation] has made a meaningful dent in how much piracy goes on among American young people,” John Palfrey, a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “And I think it continues to represent a signal that the recording industry is out of step with the future, and frankly out of step with the present as well.
So it seems while they admit on one hand their policy of "sue em all" is flawed and ineffective they still seem bent on suing the very young and old, the infirm, and those on low incomes, in fact anyone who is unable or unlikely to offer any effective legal resistance, regardless of their claims of justification their actions are those or a parasite on society as a whole and should be resisted, a good start is to ensure
we all discourage purchasing of any of their products, why help fund the same cartel organisations who would sue people terminally ill or dying as they have done ?
