Comments on: Prof. mounts constitutional counterattack to RIAA claims http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2008/11/17/prof-mounts-constitutional-counterattack-to-riaa-claims/ A Daily Record blog devoted to Legal Affairs Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:12:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Anonymous http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2008/11/17/prof-mounts-constitutional-counterattack-to-riaa-claims/#comment-2074 Anonymous Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:54:30 +0000 http://blogs.mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2008/11/17/prof-mounts-constitutional-counterattack-to-riaa-claims/#comment-2074 I have never understood why so many people seem to think that the stealing of intellectual property stored in an electronic medium is "ok." If these same people entered a store and stole a CD, most people would agree that it's "wrong." I don't know the details of the law(s) that the RIAA is using to pursue these people. But, superficially, it doesn't really seem that different from a qui tam statute. I have never understood why so many people seem to think that the stealing of intellectual property stored in an electronic medium is “ok.” If these same people entered a store and stole a CD, most people would agree that it’s “wrong.”

I don’t know the details of the law(s) that the RIAA is using to pursue these people. But, superficially, it doesn’t really seem that different from a qui tam statute.

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