The fines for downloading illegal music has not decreased as the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sued more than 18,000
people. This article goes through how individuals rather then groups are now
being targeted to be sued no matter if you have 5 songs to 15,000. It is hard
for the RIAA to crack down on file-storing websites like Mega Upload and Kim
Dotcom due to location as the people who run them know how to hide. The problem
with the individual is they do not know how to get around the governments
online blocks so to say so they get picked out and are made an example of
because of there venerability. Christopher Jon Sprigman, co-author of the
Knockoff Economy says "The record companies basically bought themselves a
huge amount of bad publicity, a few settlements and no real impact on
file-sharing." I completely agree with this quote, as it just makes the
record company’s look greedy. Sure the artists should get there fair share but
at the sametime they are gaining more publicity giving there songs away then
trying to go through the old process of selling there music on a CD. I hope new
laws come into play as illegal content from music to movies is so readily
available and so easy to download. People who don't even know what they are
doing essentially are getting penalized and picked out which isn’t right. If
anything the RIAA should go after the big file storing websites to control the
flow of illegal downloads.
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