An idea:

Create a movement to have all (reasonable) computer users to create a P2P share on their hard drives and fill it with files named as song files but are actually anything else - images, text documents, whatever. Initially, there will be a number of subpoenas for people who wouldn’t have been called otherwise, but this will:

1. immediately dilute the pool of cases including the “legitimate” cases to the point that courts will look at RIAA’s procedures as ineffective and ambiguous.

2. with a 99% rate of frivolous, unsubstantiated cases, make it economically infeasible for the RIAA.

I bet some of the great P2P software authors could easily make a downloadable program to set up one’s computer with this plan. (They might even relish working on the project.)

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End of idea - (The following is just a rant and doesn’t contain anything useful.)
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I hope that helps. I’m so p*ssed at these soul-less attorneys that I just hope to help stonewall their immoral and underhanded way of trying to coerce money from fine upstanding people. Since the recording industry failed at claiming enough market share with new technology, they should try another approach again instead of trying to bleed their former customers for revenue they could have produced with the right business model. I think when CD recorders became affordable to the home user, they should have realized that they were no longer the only ones capable of producing their product and gotten ahead of the digital game at that point. It seems they’re poor at business and immoral in character. Gee, how many artists have we heard that from over the last 60 years?
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