And the Soldiers March...

The RIAA offically subpoened ISP’s for records of their users. The battle has begun, can the RIAA scare people from using p2p into buying CD’s or online versions? 3 million plus users use the system at anyone one time, how will they find everyone and sue them? Mostly likely the users they are suing have no money. If the RIAA has not noticed we are an economic slump. RIAA tactics are only adding to this slump by robbing people of their money.

Napster was sucessfully brought down because their shareing was centralized. P2P is not, every computer running the sharing software acts like a hub. It’s similar to the way DNS works, computers know what other computers have to offer. Taking one computer out of the mix of millions is not going to do any good. To create disarray in the network they would have to remove 70 to 80 percent (depending on the size of the p2p network) to create enough damage to possibly bring the system down. This is not going to happen.

I have said this before, the solution is not to insanely sue everyone who downloads music. P2p is a cry for a creation of a new business schema. The RIAA needs a new industry schema.

The significance of the RIAA taking court based action is they are the first to do so. In a time when most judges are ignorant of the techincal structure in place. The RIAA is createing case law (where future rulings will be based on past court decisions). The case law will be used, until it is directly challenged. Which could be a long time.