One of the lawyers involved in defending cases bought against people by the RIAA claims that if the music industry wins a crucial case, the Internet will have to be switched off.
Speaking on the DefectiveByDesign anti-DRM campaign site, Ray Beckerman said the case of Electro vs. Barker has become very important for the web’s [...]

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They have a point. Google stores a ton of illegal files but no one is filing a lawsuit against them. Ugh.
While the RIAA has waged a full-on legal assault against individual file-sharers, the MPAA has instead chosen to go after individual web sites. In 2006, the motion picture industry trade group filed copyright infringement lawsuits [...]

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Jesus these goons don’t know when to quit. If they could make you install a brain filter that prevented you from hearing pirated music I’m sure they would.
At a Washington, DC, tech conference last week, RIAA boss Cary Sherman suggested that Internet filtering was a super idea but that he saw no reason to [...]

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