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Pay up. Or else …..
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Under the new scheme, the RIAA sends out what it calls ‘pre-litigation’ settlement letters. Actually, they’re self-incrimination documents and they’re designed to extort preset amounts of around $3,000 from students with the empty promise that by paying up, they’ll remove the threat of being hauled into court on charges of copyright infringement.
In reality, all the students are doing is providing the RIAA with personal and private information which can conceivably be used against them at some point in the future when the Big 4 agency ramps up to a new level of intimidation.
In the sixth wave of blackmail, the RIAA is targetting 23 universities nationwide with 408 ’settlement’ letters.
They deliberately omitted Harvard, apparently afraid of the reaction it’s likely to get there, having been told by 2 Harvard law professors to take a hike.
It’s clear: the best way to fight the RIAA is to 1) stop buying all their products, 2) tell them in no uncertain terms you will fight them all the way.
So, just in case you weren’t clear of my point of view on this: Dear EMI, Dear Vivendi Universal, Dear Sony BMG, and Dear Warner Music, Go Fuck Yourself.
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