OT: Recording Industry Ripoff

[El_Phil]

Atrocities said:
A long while back I posted about how the RIAA had copied KaZaa software and had released its own version in order to "gather" evidence against people who happened to use their P2P program. I was laughed at but later that year the developers of KaZaa sued the RIAA for doing it and the RIAA sued a great many people for piracy. I think one of them was an 11 year old girl and her destitute Grandmother. Way to go RIAA, make those examples.

Looking at it first off, well yes its awful. BUT and it is a big but, she was breaking the law. Either the law applys to all or scrap it. Complain about the entire system all you like, but the girl wouldn't have been in trouble if she wasn't breaking the law.

I'm not condoning the RIAA or their actions, but if people didn't pirate they wouldn't be in trouble. When you can get legal music from Hong Kong imports at £6 or so each then I start to lose sympathy. Yes in a standard retailer music is overpriced, but at ~50p a track on legal CD you can't say that is a ripoff.