The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is on a rampage, launching legal attacks against average Americans from coast to coast. After over 18,000 lawsuits and counting against P2P users, file sharing has continued to increase rapidly. Meanwhile, music fans, like 12 year-old Brianna LaHara, college student Cassi Hunt, and parent of five Cecilia Gonzalez, are being forced to pay thousands of dollars they do not have to settle RIAA-member lawsuits, and many other innocent individuals are being caught in the crossfire.
This irrational crusade is not generating a single penny for the artists that the RIAA claims to protect. The RIAA should be working to create a rational, legal means by which its customers can take advantage of file sharing technology and pay a fair price for the music they love. With artists increasingly turning against the lawsuits, momentum may be shifting in favor of a better way forward.
Copyright law shouldn’t make criminals out of more than 60 million Americans — tell Congress that it’s time to stop the madness!
We have over 80,000 signatures so far – this is amazing! If we can get 100,000 signatures, we will deliver the petition to the Senate and House Commerce and Judiciary Commitees.
We need a way to anonymously share with each other… and to get our IP’s to better protect our privacy. The big companies like Rogers Telus Sympatico and ‘states companies like sprint aol ect need to shell out some bucks to research better tech to keep prying eyes out! I’ll bet they’d find solutions real fast if we boycotted them for a month!
only 80000? how long has this petition been up? i hope only for a matter of a few days
If ya cant beat em’ join em’!!!!!! They will never stop free file sharing on the net. it is a hopeless and pointless battle.