RIAA Suing Students Again

By Jim on October 29th, 2004

Apparently it still hasn’t dawned on them that lawsuits are not going to work. :roll:

The Recording Industry Association of America filed on Thursday another round of lawsuits against alleged file-swappers, including students on 13 university campuses.

The 750 suits come just a few days after Internet researchers released a study that found peer-to-peer traffic had remained constant or risen up to the early days of 2004, despite the pressure of recording industry lawsuits.

But the RIAA said its lawsuits were helping build a foundation for the growth in authorized music services such as iTunes, Napster and others.

I don’t buy that at all. Their lawsuits aren’t doing anything except pissing away a lot of money and victimizing students. Commercial music services like iTunes, Napster, etc. will succeed when they provide superior value and service to users. Period. No amount of lawsuits will change that, so the dingbats at the RIAA would do well to bear that in mind.

But they won’t. :roll: