THE ELECTRONIC Frontier Foundation (EFF) has slammed the Recording Industry of America’s legal tactics for fighting pirates and accused it of conducting a “reign of terror” against the defenceless.
Ray Beckerman, a lawyer with the EFF, and the law firm of Vandenberg & Feliu in New Yor,k said that typical tactics being used by the RIAA would not be possible in Europe.
He said that the RIAA was a multibillion dollar cartel suing all sorts of people who have no resources whatsoever to withstand it.
The aim was not to catch pirates, but build up enough case history to rewrite copyright law, he claimed.
There is little money in p2p when $20 cd’s of 45 minutes to an hour of content can be sold for $ .25 an album electronically. There is NO incentive for anyone making millions selling content to want the price of content drop to p2p commodity pricing. The automation would put every player out of business. A few people and corporations would make millions everyone else would think twice about creating content. It would be a lottery where only ti tles that were downloaded would make a royality — not what is produced as it is today. Producers would have to PROVE what they produce has a market not use big business to force solutions on people with time but little to no money.
Wow this is some revolutionary thinking here. You should read the story link and the Newsforge page it comes from it really seems to bust the RIAA’s suits to bits casting lots of doubt on them.