(From your second link)

Re:Hmmm... Justice? (Score:1)
by binary paladin (684759) on Wednesday September 10, @03:21AM (#6919034)
You're focusing on the wrong part of the story. There's two problems that have gotten out of hand, not just one. That's the worst part of this. Artists should get paid, I agree. However nailing a 12-year-old in the projects for $2000 doesn't solve anything.

Treating the symptoms of a disease instead of the cause will never cure anything.

The recording industry is another just another screw everyone organization. They screw the people the buy their music, the people the make the music and everyone in between. I'll use the simplest label I can here, they're bad. That's one letter less than "evil." They're that too.

And did she steal their property? What is the definition of theft? What is the definition of property? Did she think her actions were wrong? Was there any mens rea?

If it's theft, shouldn't it be pursued in a criminal matter and not a civil matter? If they really feel they're being stolen from, why not charge people with a crime as opposed to this civil bullshit? Because it's easier to step on people in the civil circuits, particularly for corporations and such.
. . . .

The gentleman has succinctly summarized in this one sentence, the Largest US Scam du jour, and ever since we began the Corporate-AMA: allopathic medicine is as single-mindset oriented as
{this entire utterly disgusting RIAA travesty is mired in lazy digital-think Right/Wrong}.

But look: a 'people' who have, thus far gone along with a First Strike attack on a pipsqueak country, via trumped-up bogus rationale -- are 'we' apt to take on the RIAA and its relatively non- life-threatening Vulture Capitalism of usual kind,

--while ignoring THAT?



'We' are, more and more often of late - Disgusting
as the Model for any sentient collection of bugs, even.