Monday, March 28, 2011

Are they trying to make piracy guilt-free?

They could hardly be doing a better job. On this side of the Atlantic, the RIAA is suing LimeWire for $75 trillion dollars. That's more than five times the national debt of the United States of America (quick, Congress: slap a hefty tax on ridiculous copyright lawsuit awards and settlements and we can pay off the entire debt at once). It's also probably far, far more than the sum total revenues, not just profits, of the record industry since it's inception. On the other side of the pond, the Belgian equivalent is trying to make truck drivers pay to be allowed to listen to the fricken radio in their trucks.

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