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Discuss “Recording industry brings piracy on itself”

It?s said that the best judge of a person?s character is what they do when nobody?s looking. If that?s true, then it appears many of us are thieves. We?re dastardly little pirates, but instead of cannoned ships, we man computers and sail the seven seas of cyberspace. We rape and pillage the noble music industry with iPods in place of eyepatches.

Or at least that?s the image being propagated by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as it gears up to prosecute 450 college students (25 each from 18 offending college networks, including CMU and the University of Pittsburgh) for illegal file-sharing. While technically they are in the legal right, the RIAA is seriously misguided in its approach to this situation.

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