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Swatting Flying Monkeys

Downhill Battle has launched a system to allow people to contribute to the defence funds for people sued by the RIAA. I believe one should pay the musicians and their support networks for the music one wants, but the RIAA is a luddite acting indiscriminately, heavy-handedly and not in their members interests. Their action seems to involve no research of the actual people involved and they make no distinction between using peer-to-peer as a way to shoplift and as a wired 'preview' booth or for other legititate uses (take Moby's view for example [via Boing Boing] - go, Moby!).

The RIAA plan seems to be to mindlessly threaten people who will be too scared to fight and thus to build up a body of precedent to support their delusions. Hopefully sooner or later they will target someone who can actually afford to defend themselves. But in the mean time I am supporting the fund and encourage you to do so too - to quote Adam Eisgrau, "We don't condone copyright infringement, but it's time for the R.I.A.A.'s winged monkeys to fly back to the castle and leave the Munchkins alone." [thanks, Mitch]

posted at 2:31 PM (UK) | |