[Ronin]

That background noise we are all hearing is the lawyers and the lawsuit industry chuckling, giggling, snorting and snickering as they imagine a whole passel of tasty little lawsuit tidbits and legal fees from this mess.

Thousands of little lawsuits? Wheeeee!!!

Of course, most of the P2P downloaders and uploaders are not worried. Heck, if they had the money to pay a lawyer they wouldn't need to download their music from the Internet.

The RIAA is not going to stop music downloaders because even if Kazaa were to vanish tomorrow, another network would pop up in less than a week.

They want to send out spybots and monitor everyone's machines? How long before some computer wizard comes up with a fix that stops them from doing just that.

The RIAA is trying to shovel back the tide with a pitchfork. The only winners here (as usual) will be the lawyers.

[wizzler]

The only winners here (as usual) will be the lawyers.

No, the winners here will be artists, musicians and those others to whom they've legally transferred their copyrights. You know -- people who invested money, time and creative energy banking on the good faith that society would live up to the copyright laws it has written.

You may think that five years' worth of downloading technology suddenly mitigates centuries' worth of basic common law principles regarding copyright. The courts, I'm afraid, are apt to disagree. They're not quite so myopic.

[rs79bm]

Thousands of little lawsuits? Wheeeee!!!

The recording industry would go broke before they successfully sued Americans on this issue.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The only winners here (as usual) will be the lawyers.

That's what the RIAA has wanted all along. It's the big Record Labels that want to squash Napster, Kazaa, et al.

The RIAA has only been carrying water for the Big Labels because the Big Labels pay their salaries.

[Calpernia]

You are very close to being on the motive. Lawyers are just out looking for the next "Payday". Matter of fact, this past weekend, a bunch of these hungry sharks had a meeting in Boston to discuss the 'next payday'. The next deep pockets they are targetting is Big Food (junk food). I'm sure these file swapping suites are just to keep empowered.