[Cyrax9]

The LAST thing the RIAA wants is a College Campus Riot Gekko, we ALL know how those end, and we all know afterwards whoever started it usually winds up ruined for life.

If the RIAA pisses off a College, (we knwo the RIA IS Pissed already, but the Colleges really aren't as much) by demanding a list of names, a College can refuse under "Unwarrented Search and Seziure" laws, and "Invasion of Privacy", granted the government will cut funding, and the College will probably try to crack down on the P2P users, but the minute the RIAA hauls a bunch of College Kids out of the classroom in 'cuffs they're going to piss off a lot of people, some, who are not kids, but who may be in anywher from 30-50 are gonna get just as pissed and probably TRY illegally downloading files to see if the RIAA will sue them too, as a sort of immature "Come and get me" attitude. The RIAA will have so many "Pending" suits, they'll collapse in on themselves.

Some kids will do time, and yeah theya re adults, but then again, you also have 4th Graders with a Cable/DSL line at home and parents who know jack about the PC and how their kids use it. Now let's say little Jonny is at his PC DLing 500 files a day--but WAIT! He's only 10! Now the RIAA doesn't know that and due to thier stupidity, issue a summon's, the Juvinile is sent to court and a baffeled group of parents ask "why?"

When theft is given as the answer, these parents, those "D@mn soccer moms" as we call them, will actually be useful, they will piss off the RIAA even mre, possiblyc ausing further suits until one of two conditons is reached:

1. The RIAA learns the age-old adge of "If you can't ebat 'em, join 'em" and starts their own P2P network or"

2. The RIAA, now hated by the US Government among many others is Dissolved in a Supreme court for "Frivolous Lawsuits", which, as legit as they are, are deemed "Frivolous" due to the sheer number of them and "more improtant" crimes, need to be solved first, either way the RIAA loses, after that new laws will probably be written to fix problems like this from occuring again.

Also they're going after people with files in the 100,000's more than anyone, I have 284 "Stolen" MP3's on My PC, most of which, I also own the CD too, ASSUMING one is in existance, some songs are actually ripped from *gasp* REcORD LP's! They're OLD and out of PRINT!

Now the only stuff I have that's on Shelves and is causing a "Sales Loss" is two Eminem Songs, and if Eminem wants compensation for two lousy song's he can have $2.00 just as if I paid for them, hell I'd write out a check right now if need be.

The RIAA is desperate, they're sueing students because they can't shutdown the P2P networks, but those Students aren't always stupid, some will move the music and reformat their Drives to make it harder to trace, others may stop but that's unlikley, and the last thing the RIAA wants is an image on TV of Soanso being hauled off of the Temple University Campus as a "Music Theif" as it will hurt the school, which will probably countersue for damages from the RIAA, and nobody wants that.

The RIAA is now stuck, if they sue, the jury may consist of P2P users who rule "Not Guilty" and really piss off the RIAA, if the RIAA can't shutdown the P2P networks then they're already in trouble, sueing students is just going to create animosity towards them, and several artists speak under the condition of Anonimity saying that they never get paid by the RiAA and that they SUPPORT P2P networks and Concert tours where they make their money, this aggrivates the RIAA even more, as their own artists are against them, and if Athey jail a few of their Artists, that will be the crippling blow, and I am sure we will see it eventually.

As for our tax Dollars paying for the court hearings, a lot of people are probably going to say "Why should I pay for a hearing when I don't even know what P2P is/I support file sharing?" Then they'll download musicto try and cause a tax increase to the "Honest Fool" for a suit against them.

The RIAA is desperate, they're LOSING they are winning this war about as well as Saddam is winning the war in Iraq!

These guys are going to sue, and they're going to lose from various loopholes, and like Saddam Hussien, they're going to crumble at angry Parents, Children and P2P users all with suits filed agaist them, by the time they jail everybody they'll need to put a wall aroud the whole country.

Also take into account that P2P users are usually people with low cash and the RIAA will never see the money they want, tax payers won't want to pay for jail time and thus will convinve congress to release the P2P users quickly, and you have one ruined RIAA.

The RIAA vs. the P2P users is like Nazi Germany Vs. the Allied Forces, the RIAA has more people and better equipment, but the P2P users are persistent and may be willing to cause damage to RIAa Property, this is a WAR, it's not being fought with guns and tanks though, it's ebing fought with Mice and MP3's!

Now the question is, who will win in the end?

As far as the ammount of Songs I have, I seldom even use a P2P network, and if I was called to court my response would be "I looked for the CD it was discontinued or never even excisted as such, but only as an LP. You wouldn't get paid for Second-hand items anyway, and as for what I have that IS available, I will GLADLY pay you the $0.99 the Download SHOULD have cost me in the first place!" As you can see what I have is fairly small comapred to most users, and isn't even stuff people would really want except a few people interested in odd music, in fact the stuff I have is so obscure at times that the RIAA would have to make sure they COVERED it in their vaults at times!

Also, as far as logging my IP#, my ISP is as stupid as a mentally-retarded ape! These guys usually can't even help thier customers, let alone the RIAA, and considering I haven't actived my P2P program since last month, I'd say that they'd rather go after those who are sending 500+ files an hour instead of a guy who can pay for what he has, and would probably have the RiAA laughedout of court for a suit on such obscure music.

For the most part I buy CD's of what I have on MP3, and what I don't have is all rare stuff from Various places, most of which has never been "Shared" and I think I'm low-priortycompared to people like one guy I know who's 57 and has 1,500,000,000 MP3's on his laptop, if they take this guy, they're also going to really look stupid since they're trying to send a message that "Nobody over age 29 shares files."

Anyway that's just my $0.02 and once the suits start I'll be following them, let;'s see how many people they actually beat, because there's a good chance that they're going to get a smart person in court and the judge HATES thatbecause any smart person can usually ruin a lawsuit, but we'll justs ee how everything pans out.