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Declan on RIAA's Lawsuits Targeting Individuals
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posted by mpawlo
on Wednesday August 27, @06:57AM
from the opinions-are-like-frank-zappa's-records dept.
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In his latest column, Declan McCullagh discusses the strategy of RIAA to start suying swap-happy pirates and the double-standards possibly held by the civil-liberties advocates. McCullagh states:
'Now that RIAA has called that bluff and announced it will in fact start suing some of the more swap-happy P2P pirates as soon as next week, civil liberties groups are less supportive of the idea. With the threat of lawsuits looming, the EFF is now on the pulpit deriding heavy-handed litigation tactics and handing out how-not-to-get-sued advice on its Web site.'
Read Declan McCullagh's column.
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As I do not remember who wrote the article on the RIAA that compared them to the mob, I cannot speak it here. Good job to you!
Now with that said, I have something to add:
In it's ongoing campaign against the "pirates" of the internet the RIAA and MPAA are reminding me of the Nazi Party in Germany before and during WWII in that they seek to control what we hear and how we hear it! That is right folks, the Nazi Party in Hitler's Germany! Although they do not directly write the laws (sic. yet) they hold sway over the very people that WE place in the federal government....Persons that are supposedly elected to represent thier individual states of origion! They seek to dominate the people through use of funds and offers of jobs once these elected officials pass bills such as the DMCA behind the people's backs (Most do not even realize that the DMCA is an actual law because no one but the well informed were paying attention). It is my belief that ALL special interest organizations should be BARRED from contributing to the campaigns of ANYONE seeking public office....REGARDLESS OF WHO OR WHAT THEY REPRESENT (i pull no punches here, ALL SPECIAL INTERESTS)! I do not believe that our forefathers wished to see thier country (our country) being run by such small subsections of the people as the RIAA. I do not believe that was thier intent when the wrote th Constitution and started it "We The People of the United States". I do not believe that government is clear on anything that it does "for the good of the people" anymore. Hey, I love this country enough to have given my time as a member of the US Military. Would have gladly given my life for this country if asked, now I am one of the 60 million plus persons being prosecuted and persecuted by a special interest organization for downloading music, this is awful "Big Brother" of the people that have totally locked up the district courts of Washington, D.C, with the "rubber stamp subpeona's" which the DMCA gave them the power to press.
Does the system need a change? Oh yeah! Do "We The People" need to oust some senators who have paid more attention to special interests than thier own constituants? Absolutely! It is time for a change!
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