Last Thursday the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) boasted it had launched another 717 lawsuits against people who share music online, bringing the total number of those victimized to a shocking 8,423. By the weekend, however, Google had indexed a only a handful of links on the story, which didn’t even rate a headline on the main news page. Is it that no one cares that Big Music is raging through America in a hopeless effort to sue people into buying its “product.”
Big Music’s Ambitions
Posted by: Jon Newton February 1, 2005 05:00 AMLast Thursday the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) boasted it had launched another 717 lawsuits against people who share music online, bringing the total number of those victimized to a shocking 8,423. By the weekend, however, Google had indexed a only a handful of links on the story, which didn’t even rate a headline on the main news page. Is it that no one cares that Big Music is raging through America in a hopeless effort to sue people into buying its “product.”