Tapsearch Com EditorIt's my computer, and I'll steal your music if I want to
July 26th 2007 22:10
Glenn Reynolds is in a tizzy, suggesting University of Tennessee students boycott major-label CDs. The RIAA subpoenaed their school's records of suspected music downloaders' identities.
Uhm, here's how these things called "investigations" work. Law enforcement (or in this case, a tort plaintiff) thinks you've done something worth going to court over. To find out more, they look for clues, and one of the tools they have is a subpoena -- basically, if a court agrees that you possess relevant evidence (including memories you could testify about), the court can require you hand it over.
Why in the world would this not apply to blatant copyright infringement? The record companies and artists own the music, so they get to decide how to distribute it (that's called "property rights"). They typically decide to to sell CDs and legal downloads ("capitalism"), and if you circumvent that ("stealing"), they have every right to sue ("justice").
As one of my favorite video game characters might say, "That's the lesson for today."
Uhm, here's how these things called "investigations" work. Law enforcement (or in this case, a tort plaintiff) thinks you've done something worth going to court over. To find out more, they look for clues, and one of the tools they have is a subpoena -- basically, if a court agrees that you possess relevant evidence (including memories you could testify about), the court can require you hand it over.
Why in the world would this not apply to blatant copyright infringement? The record companies and artists own the music, so they get to decide how to distribute it (that's called "property rights"). They typically decide to to sell CDs and legal downloads ("capitalism"), and if you circumvent that ("stealing"), they have every right to sue ("justice").
As one of my favorite video game characters might say, "That's the lesson for today."
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