And …they… do it again.
Them. Those People. The Others. The Evil Ones. The Dark Side. The Sith. The Goa’ould. The Nazis.
The RIAA is know by many names. These are just a few. How this …affiliation.. still exists, I have no idea. Time after time, after TIME, I have seen articles in the news where the RIAA has sued people that had no idea what they were doing, hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions of dollars, for slight copyright infringement.
Don’t get me wrong, though. I support the idea of bringing to justice people who break the law by stealing music, but that is NOT what the RIAA is. The RIAA is a bunch of greedy politicians who want as much money as they can get, and are using their power to sue a bunch of innocent people, and steal their entire livelihoods, for a crime, that, if they committed, warrants a $500 fee, not a $500,000. Cnet recently posted an article about one of the RIAA’s latest …exploits…, in which they are picking on a site known by probably everyone reading this. Project Playlist. What Project Playlist does, is merely search the Internet (automated, most likely), and gather all .mp3 files they can find, and link them on their site, and allow you to organize them into a playlist, and put it on any site. That is not illegal. It is only illegal when they are purposely and maliciously finding sites they know to be illegal, and putting their music on the site. Admittedly, it is a fine line, but I am confident that they will win the current legal battle, because they do not actually host any music on their site (btw, I am listening to PP right now).
Now, this is TYPICAL RIAA. They go after the unknowing distributor. Again. Now, what they SHOULD do, is make an agreement with PP, and use their database to locate illegal music sites, and take them down.
Here are the articles: (link)(link)
What do you think Do you disagree? agree? why?
(My Project Playlist)
(edit: stupid non-paid version of WordPress won’t let me do custom HTML/CSS. use the stand-alone link to view my playlist)
