There, I said it. When it comes to strongarm, Corleone-esque legal tactics, nobody's got the RIAA beat. Read this, for example.
When I spoke to Rebecca Jeschke at the Electronic Frontier Foundation for my story on a local guy getting sued, she had a lot to say about their tactics against online copyright infringement (which is not theft, don't be fooled). I wasn't able to use much of it in my story on a local guy getting nailed by the RIAA, so here's the MP3 of the whole 10-minute interview.
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Honestly, I remember celebrating when Napster actually beat a few lawsuits by telling record companies that they had it coming. I thought it was genius, and saw myself replacing the words "intellectual property" and "record company" with whatever I wanted to steal and whoever I wanted to steal it from, and just making a killing on the black market. But now, this happens. Now, we're all being hounded down like common criminals, and even us common criminals can see that this is a dark day. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I'm reading all of this.
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