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Originally Posted by Caligari
this is what i've been arguing all along. RIAA did not have the guns, Hollywood has the fucking ammo and they will get their pound of flesh guaranteed.
laws do change when you have the clout to change them, or at least get them enforced, and while i don't think individuals should be the ones getting sued and having to pay, something has got to happen to protect copyright and bolster the true idea of "fair use."
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Hollywood AKA the MPAA is not behind these lawsuits. It's just one group of ambulance chasers trying to sell their services as an alternative means of revenue to independent movie studios.
The problem with mass lawsuits like this that require the ISP's to scan through IP addresses is the man power needed to do it. To sum it up, it's not even feasible to sue so many people because of the work it would require to go through the IP address requests.(this is coming from the ISPs themselves)
Once that fact becomes more wide-known then their scare tactics will stop working so well and people will stop paying up front out of fear. Of course there will be some sacrificial lambs before they give up on suing everyone, but the odds are definitely in the favour of the pirates (7 million downloads of one movie compared to a handful of lawsuits)