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[prog]

The RIAA settled with the girl's family by taking $2,000 from them. Note that she is from a poor family living in a housing project, and didn't know she was doing anything wrong; her mom paid a monthly service fee for KaZaA, and she thought this entitled them to download whatever they found thereon.

Personally, I find this the private-sector version of the "Bring 'em on" utterance: the action which switches my stance towards some powerful domestic entity from guarded negativity to disgusted loathing, and a deep desire to make them go away.

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grr.

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

I had essentially the same reaction. I really would like to take the time to write to some of my favorite artists and tell them to please get off of their record lables, because I can't buy their albums until they do. But I probably won't, because I am too busy (but I really *want to*).

I am going to make an effort to stick to non-RIAA member record lables from now on. Really.