EFF Chronicles File-Sharing Lawsuits in 'RIAA v. The People: 5 Years Later'
Date : 2008 10 01 Category : Web News
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Recounts the music industry's failed strategy of suing at least 30,000 individuals that have included children, grandparents, unemployed single mothers, college professors, the handicapped, and even the deceased.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF has written an excellent recount of the RIAA's "sue 'em all" anti-file-sharing campaign that began September 8, 2003 called "RIAA v The People: 5 Years Later." In seven parts it chronicles the failed strategy from prelude to a current assessment.
In part 1, "Prelude: Sue the Technology," it notes how "The music industry initially responded to P2P file sharing as it has often responded to disruptive innovations in the past: it sent its lawyers after the innovators, hoping to smother the technology in its infancy."
Rather than capturing the genie and putting it on the RIAA payroll, it instead tried to put it back in the bottle and forget it ever happened.