Tilting At P2P Windmills

Having won its case forcing Verizon to reveal the names of ISP customers, the RIAA has now sent "cease and desist" letters to five people it says are unlawfully offering copyrighted music via peer-to-peer Internet technologies. [MTV.com]

Hey, you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Even MPAA, the movie industry association, has never sued individuals for taping broadcast television or DVDs. There's millions of P2P users on the Internet, and RIAA can't sue them all. What a wild goose chase they've embarked upon.

Update: Just a week after this post, RIIA announced it will starting bringing lawsuits against individuals for file sharing.

 Posted by glenn at 04:13 PM | Comments (1)

Gore TV

Al Gore is apparently mad at conservative talk show hosts and wants to start his own liberal television network. Gore, Enter Stage Left? This quip by Fox is a particularly good rejoinder:

Hey, bad enough that he's on Apple's Board of Directors. Now we're going to be bombarded with "Gore TV"? Not on my screen, Mister!

 Posted by glenn at 10:21 AM | Comments (0)