What do you think the RIAA's next move will be?

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I got this off of an older (12/19) TechTv newsletter. As of today, this is how people have voted:

Apologize and stop suing
21%

No subpoenas, but more lawsuits
23%

Appeal to Supreme Court
57%


I voted for the second one. I believe this to still be a valid question as although there have been several events since the original poll, I am sure there will be several more "next moves." Even if there is only one more move left, the question can still be asked as to what their final move will be.

[Omyn]

Well if they dont appologize it will only get worse.

As long as they keep being idiots, running around like crazy suing everybody in sight the hate will contine.

Even if they do appologize there will still be people that will continue to hate them and never buy any of their products ever again, but I think it may actually boost their music CD sales if more of the money goes to the artist instead of in their wallets.

Not like they have a bunch of artists with any talent to begin with.

[shawners]

Their going to strike fear in websight owners, as well as trying to close many websights who are based on filesharing.. .They will make everyone so paranoid that users will turn on each other, and in the end.. we will destroy ourselfs..

[Killawat]

i'll Have to stick with
D: going for infants
and shawners has a nice plan also

[MikeHunt]

...when you can't win...you play dirty.
Look for plenty of new P2P viruses...nasty ones....promoting FUD and Tv propaganda pieces.

[fireforce555]

I think they will go to the top and try to get their right to threaten back. They need it, if they dont have it their "scare factor" goes away and any one who was afraid to share will do it again because they will know they are nearly untouchable.


They may launch a few lawsuits at people who are massive servers of data but I dont see a person with say a couple pop albums getting one. It just doesnt make financial sense.


What they did before WAS smart, it created a sense of fear in many people and they targeted not just college kids, or highschoolers but grandpas and everyone else that falls into various demographics. It made the fear cross borders a bit, no longer was it they were only after teen to young adult "warez cyber thieves" but it was now the grandpa down the street who was turned overnight into an accused felon.

Its better to just have people afraid to piss you off than to go through the effort to get everyone. Same way schoolyard bullies are, they whoop a few people and then everyone else doesnt mess with them for it.

[method77]

apologise

ha!

[Malicious Intent]

What about subpoenas with judges signature?
The supreme court wont overturn the decision becuse it was right.

[method]

I think they're going to start to put pressure back on the ISPs to take responsibility over p2p-activity.

Y'know how they seem to be able to re-write the law...

I think they (RIAA and it's senator friends) will try it again, rather than one infringement to one IP they'll track total number of infringements, arguing that 1000's of copies of illegal media were traced to Verizon or whoever.

I hope it doesn't work out that way, but if I was as much of a persistant pain in the ass as the RIAA is.. I'd probably opt for that tactic!!

[shawners]

in the mean time while they are trying methods plan.. we are devoloping smarter p2p apps where their is no possibility for them to sue us, and get us off the networks.

[method]

Heh.. ya right.. I shouldn't give them any ideas!!!

Well.. it may finally look like we need to do both the big two p2p protection ideas..

- encrypt p2p traffic
- proxy-routing for anonymity.

Peace!! :)

[cheapprick]

That was Hard TO read.

[cjules13]

That was Hard TO read.

Heh... remember people, punctuation is your friend... love the period, love the comma... :blah

RIAA next move? method posted a realizable move - maybe. The reason I think it may be right is now the new effort that the RIAA has to go through in order to obtain your information for a lawsuit. I would really like an idea of the cost difference between simply supeona'ing someone's info direct, vs having to file suit first in order to obtain.

Do we have any law students/lawyers here (prolly not eh?) who could post a ballpark idea?

I'm thinking it's at least 10x more expensive... So, we might see the ante raised on the next round of suits. Meaning what took $3000 in the past to settle (that was the average settlement) turn into a $30,000 settlement. That'd be bad. I could personally afford ~$3000, but I sure as shit couldn't pay $30,000. Then what? :green

Or, like method, they may decide to go after the ISPs again. I'm sure they've got their law team poring of the law books and scouring the DCMA for any reason whatsoever to hold the ISPs responsible. I know they've appealed the decision made last March when the p2p tools were ruled legal. I think that's going to be a very closely watched appeal as even the original ruling judge was quoted as saying that his own decision "...did not sit well with me."

I think the p2p networks themselves could find themselves defending their legality again.

[kita]

Ninjas! Definitely Ninjas

[origin]

well lets see, what will there next move be? a tough question indeed. This is what I think in the near future within a few years we can definitely expect to see more of the RIAA's light headed tactics on dealing with issues by sueing the people that are still remotely interested in there media, and settle for the most of the amount X that they see in there bank acct so who is really robbing who here? In anycase I think the RIAA will continue to try to get to the top and have the most power over suing file swappers but it will not be a easy rode nor a completly sucessfull one. Hopefully the riaa will reach a point where the gov's gonna be like STOP thats enough you are not the law I am the LAW!. lol
Everything comes in due time, Lets just be patient and see what is ahead of us. :)

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