It’s been a mere five years since the RIAA redefined “sharing” from being a virtue to the very bad thing it represents today.
They’ve taught us other valuable lessons as well during the past half-decade, while seemingly learning nothing at all themselves.
After 7000 lawsuits, the file sharers still dodge and weave, change software, use firewalls, and ask the rhetorical question, “What are the odds?”, knowing full well they have a better chance of winning the PowerBall than getting busted for sharing songs (although your odds are obviously much higher if you are on a college campus, but not for the PowerBall). There are still 60 million or so of them out there, a full 20% of the country’s population.
If anything, the massive army of file sharers has occasional collateral damage with no real harm befalling the “cause” itself. They have the edge, which can only be altered by changing the law to make the basis of the Internet itelf (the transfer of files from one computer to another) an illegal activity. This is rather like protecting our roads by banning traffic. In theory, it would work; realistically, it’s pretty damn stupid.
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