EFF To RIAA - Your Campaign Has Failed

[GhostShip]

It seems someone is asking the RIAA to wake up to its extortion style anti-filesharing campaign failure.

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17183

The bizarre sue ‘em all marketing scheme launched by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG and their RIAA against the latter’s own customers suspected of sharing copyrighted music online, is an abject failure.
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) paper usefully encapsulates many, if not most, conclusions which have become obvious to all but the Big 4 since they initiated their anti-P2P, anti-consumer, anti-any-music-but-theirs campaign five years ago last month.

For example, its says judges have repeatedly rejected the RIAA’s “making available” theory which asserts having a music file in a PC “shared” folder constitutes copyright infringement — even if no one ever copies the file.
Downloading continues unabated, “while some people simply choose to share files in ways that are harder to monitor, like burning and exchanging CDs among friends,” says the report.
“More than 30,000 Americans have been targeted for legal action by the recording industry without putting a single penny into the pockets of any artists,” says EFF senior staff attorney Fred von Lohmann.

Fred has it hit the nail on the head there folks, not one cent of any money from extorting consumers has ended up with a single artist unless you count the "creative works" of RIAA acountants, it seems its fine to use the artists name to try to convince a court that the artist is suffering some loss of revenue and then pocket any "settlement" money into your own slush fund accounts used to pay off lawyers and politicians who campaign for yet more anti-artist and anti-consumer laws, isnt it time for this dinosaur middleman organisation to die ? 

[']['affy]

next thing would be to sue the makers of stereo equipment or do a license cos most u can record radio or copy a cd yeah radio prolly does have a license to stream but what about the thousands that record music off the radio, they gonna sue them next? i doubt it, its a joke reli non of them know what there doing.

[White Stripes]

@taffy; with digital TV an FCC mandate how long before digital (most likely encrypted) radio with FCC mandate for watermarking the analog portion and blocking the digital?