So Sue Me for my blog
The RIAA, MPAA, and IFPI have all taken hits in the popular press about the lawsuits that they have foisted on Kids, Grandparents, and the technologically illiterate. Moreover, these cases really are not lies, they are not deceit, these are not things that anyone has made up. RIAA right now is in process of loosing two cases in the courts for the way that they do things.
In case you are wondering, if they loose, this gives people the opportunity to go back to see if they can get some of their previous fines lifted, well if they have enough legal help and didn’t plead guilty in the first place.
We also do not advocate theft, we do advocate for a DRM free world, but that is behind the point.
The highly fascinating exchange between the IFPI/BPI and Andrew Dubber over at New Music Strategies is interesting. Mostly because Paul Birch of Revolver records really does not get it. We all work our full time day jobs, and we like to do so, but what we put out here at Techwag and a pile of other blogs across the planet really does not reflect our employer’s attitude or opinions.
The amusing part is that the BPI/IFPI person is sitting there threatening a professor for commenting on an article, that was someplace else. Pretty standard fare in the bloggers world of writing.
This is one of those unbelievable kinds of things, and while Paul Birch might be a great person, threatening someone’s livelihood because they linked to an article that was critical of something is chilling in its own right. Not only that, it is blindingly wrong, while the university might cave in, they also might see this as a free speech issue and take the whole thing as far as it will go in the legal system.
In the mean time, BPI/IFPI desperately needs a good PR person to try to do damage control on the conversation. People really need to stop and figure out that if you are in a hated position or industry right now how to come about and do the warm fuzzy thing, fix the image. The conversation between Paul and Andrew did not accomplish that.
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