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Didn't know about the hearings- can you summarize? What is the purpose of them?

> Comparing the RIAA to the Taliban is ludicrous and a sick insult to the people that suffered under their tyrannical rule. I agree, there's no reason to bash the Taliban here.

> If you want to place blame on anyone for this scenario, you can place it squarely on the producers of those shows, and nowhere else, for they failed to obtain blanket rights when they first negotiated the use of the song. If a show's over 20 years old, you can't really blame the producers...

> Anyone who allows a 12 year old to download anything unsupervised needs to be shaken up. They should have at least had some knowledge of what they are doing. According to the mother, she was aware of the kid downloading songs. (Why do you assume it was unsupervised?) She thought the...

> As far as I know, Music CD-Rs, DATs, and regular audio cassettes have royalties built into the purchase price How do they decide how to distribute those royalties? (semi-rhetorical question) They can't possibly know which works are going to be copied (not to mention that not all of those...

> Senator Hatch said that if he copied a CD for his friend, Senator Leahy, that would probably be Fair Use. Interesting. I thought distributing copies to someone else (whether for profit or for free) was a no-no. In other words, I buy a CD in a store & make a cassette copy to listen to in...

> If they are stealing the files, they aren't customers. Fine, if you want to assume that people who download music never legitimately buy any music.

My understanding is that this round of lawsuits is going to target people distributing music, not those downloading it. I don't think the idea is to make money off the suits, but to intimidate others into not sharing files. I think the strategy is likely to backfire by causing bad publicity...