Recording industry sues more file-swappers
Found on Slashdot on Wednesday, 31 August 2005
The RIAA has unleashed yet another round of copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 people. Evidently they still had some customers that they had to make an example of. I guess the RIAA never saw the study that says that file sharers spent more money buying music online than those who don't share music at all.
They sure will get rid of their last customers. Furthermore, people don't seem to understand that fielsharing is not the same as theft. This is just as wrong as the assumption that every download is a lost sale. Those who still cry for a complete ban of P2P and think that those lawsuits are perfectly ok should keep the studies in mind which show that filesharers buy more music. So, by axing off P2P, the music industry would kill filesharers; exactly those people who spent more money on their products than non-sharers. Not to mention that quite a few would stop buying at all to boycott them (or start to record webradio, which is perfectly fine). It's not like there's a law forcing you to buy music (I guess the industry is already working on this). As long as Spears, Diddy and others can still throw out money, they can't really be suffering that much.