RIAA continues to extort money from filesharers, fails to promote a viable alternative
I’m sure everyone has already heard about the RIAA’s new money-making scheme, p2plawsuits.com. Instead of paying lawyers to sue filesharers, the RIAA is now “offering” filesharers the option of paying up before a lawsuit is filed. Apparently, the RIAA is looking for about $1,000 and a pledge never to download illegally again.
Of course you can download legally using iTunes, Napster, or other services, but those songs are (a) lower quality, and (b) crippled with digital rights management software. It seems the RIAA really wants you to buy CDs, not download. But then you are wasting space on your shelf, promoting pollution in CD production, and wasting time ripping songs to your computer.
(As a side note, I wonder whether the RIAA cares enough about its graphic to ask me to take it down. It’s quite amusing in its own right. If only I could get the opponents in my cases to come looking for me, happy to settle for whatever I offer, life would be an awful lot easier.)
Hmmm…they must have decided that regular lawsuits are just too risky (and cutting into their bottom line with lawyers, etc.). My immediate reaction was - an electronic version of the Nigerian money scam - called blind blackmail. “We know what you’ve been doing - pay us to keep quiet.”
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