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RIAA = SCO on serious steroids

RIAA = SCO on serious steroids

Posted Jun 25, 2004 21:29 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Senate bill bans P2P networks (News.com) by ccchips
Parent article: Senate bill bans P2P networks (News.com)

If you are thinking this will help then you are seriously wrong. The answer is in subject of why message.

What is SCO ? It's dying company which have product no more needed and no more profitable. Instead of adopting to new times it started to sue anyone and everyone: old customers, old partners, etc.

What is RIAA ? It's dying "company" which have product no more needed and no more profitable (more about it here). It has budget of many-many billions of dollars instead of less then 100 millions of SCO. That's the only difference.

So instead of suing customers and partners it tries to change law and sue everyone. That's all.

You must understand what goes on: RIAA is going out of business. It does not matter if people will copy CDs or not. Someone will be sued no matter what and no matter if. Obviously peoples who are "clearly in the wrong" will be sued first. But if everyone will stop making MP3s out of CDs and everyong will stop distributing them then other scapegots will be found nothing will change globally.


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