Thought this would be of interest...

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I don't have enough time to properly give you a cut-and-paste summary, but in essence, the RIAA has filed a suit against a couple for illegal file sharing based on the testimony of a 15-year-old whom they coerced into lying under oath. The beginning of the entry shows the complaint filed in court, which lists a number of other false positive lawsuits -- suits which were filed but later dropped because they were incorrectly accusing people.

I'm not going to bring up the whole filesharing issue here for two reasons: first, it's against the TOS, and second, I just don't do illegal filesharing, having had work of my own stolen previously.

I'm all for protecting an artist's rights to intellectual property, but this isn't about that, it's about preserving record company profits, and their at all costs point of view towards it shows that they are willing to knowingly break laws to do it. Just like Sony's rootkit, they know it's at the very least unethical, but in order to preserve their profits, they are going to do it anyway.