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That letter directed Tenenbaum to call a hotline run by the Recording Industry Association of America, asking the teenager to pay for his seven illegal downloads. Tenenbaum refused to pay. After his refusal, the RIAA brought a suit...
...plaintiffs and the RIAA are seeking to punish him beyond any rational measure of the damage he allegedly caused,” Nesson wrote. “They do this, not for the purpose of recovering compensation for actual damage caused by Joel’s individual action, nor for the primary purpose of deterring him from further copyright infringement, but for the ulterior purpose of creating an urban legend so frightening to children using computers, and so frightening to parents and teachers of students using computers, that they will somehow reverse the tide of the digital future...
...Until the RIAA is able to offer consumers a reasonable alternative to buying entire CDs or records, this case against Joel is essentially extortion,” said Randall Baldassarre ’10. “If other alternatives like iTunes come to the marketplace, then it becomes a different story...
...legal strategy. The wildly popular and ill-fated music-sharing giant Napster became the war's first casualty. But it didn't stop there. "Then they targeted ordinary citizens, charging them with downloading music or enabling others to do the same ... as of June 2006, the RIAA had sued 17,587 people, including a twelve-year-old girl and a dead grandmother...
...October, The Crimson editorialized against the latest round of “pre-litigation letters” the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent to college students. Warning the recipients that they may be liable for $9,250 per illegally downloaded song, the RIAA pointed recipients to a site where they can buy peace with a credit card number and a promise not to do it again. The price point is chosen with skill: large enough to hurt, but small enough that litigating would cost more. An industry spokesman responded in The Crimson that thievery is thievery. Bills were...