The Riaa And The Unthoughtful Lawsuits
...of your fingertips. Nowadays that kind of freedom exists through the mainframe of our computer networks. Back in the old days, one would have to go to a record store and buy an entire music album that was only bought for the one song he or she wanted. Since the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, internet file sharing has become a phenomenon in online communities around the nation. For years after, teenagers, college students and even adults have taken advantage of the new music situation involving the internet. It was only a matter of time however, before the RIAA got involved and started suing people for thousands or dollars. Many people feel wrongfully accused on the matter when they are sued but that’s for the courts to decide. The consequences enforced by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for downloading music are unnecessary, unfair and should be changed to something more stable.
People should not have to have a lawsuit staring them in the face in order to change their minds about something they do on their spare time. At least if that something is the simple task of downloading music from the internet. Downloading music has become a popular trend ever since this world entered the twenty-first century. It is wrong to think that a threat is the answer to stop people from downloading. Apparently however, the RIAA thinks it is.
The RIAA has really taken its suing of offenders a step further since about the year 2004. They started targeting and suing every person they could get their hands on. Each person that was caught downloading music through the internet was sued and fined and minimum of five to seven thousand dollars (Fisher). Since then the RIAA has made improvements and adjustments to the way they want to target their “potential criminals”. Depending on how the song was downloaded and which music artist it is by, the...
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