[Cyrax9]

One Word Guys: COUNTERSUIT!

Yes, coutnersuit, why? Because the RIAa does NOT have a Search warrent for every individual Computer Online as of now, if they are snooping through your ISP's logs, and searching your macine, they can be charged with "Invasion of Privacy" and a countersuit for that would hurt them more than anything, they just need to run the razor a little farther ina vertical position along thier arm before they corak.

Gekko is right though, this is only the start of what feels like the old "VCR Battle" but on a much larger scale. I would pay for downloads, if they offered the Discontinued Music I was looking for and were ONLY $0.99 cents a download, but alas, I don't have a Mac yet,a nd the service may be dropped thanks to none other than the RIAA.

Also as Gekko said the people they want first are the dealrs, the guys whoc an fill 20 20GB iPOds in an hour tapping the Phone Grid and the T1 lines, they'll be caught first, next are the distributors, they have files for sharing, and they send one or two, and then they go after the DL'ers like a cop with a speed-trap set up.

Now, the interesting thing is no lawsuit froma celebrity is EVER a good thing for them, these guys at the RIAA are playing Russian Roulette with their buisness. If they sue a fan, or multiple fans, then you can bet a group of angry fans are going to spite them by downloading MORE Music and boycoting the RIAA, only to be caught themseleves, however after so many suits, the RIAA is going to look bad to the guy who has never shared a fil in his life, anyone who is older or younger than the P2P general users. They won't support the RIAA and as CD sales plunge and fans countersue the RIAA is going to continue to dig a deeper grave. When you have to sue yur fans, because you didn't stop the distributor's, that means you're in deep. Also this is going to be the VCR Battle as far as the Lawsuits go again as well. Fans and companies will countersue, Police officers will be arrested for this themselves and that will REALLTY hurt the RIAA, eventually after the "war" two options will be left:

1. A legal filesharing program that you Pay for run almost the same way aP2p network is, which most fans will agree on.

Or,

2. The RIAA and the fans, now fed up with each other, go thier seprate ways, CD Sales decline as people already have enough "Stolen" music hidden away, and because of this, the RIAA "SurrenderS", the Fans and a group of angry artists, the ones making NOTHING off of their own CD's, band together and shut-down the RIAA.

Either way the fans win in the end, if the RIaA sues one too many people, they're going to be under the microscope even more, if they Win fans ill demand a legal P2P network, if they lose, the Fans and angry artists will dissolve them, Rap Artists get screwewd the most (no suprise) by the RIAA but so does eveyrone and right now Artists adn Fans alike despise them, a few Artists, who are pissed off at the RIAA are ENCOURAGING P2P Use for those who "belive theya re paying the artist" when inr eality they most likley are not, the few artis' who have spoken about this try to remainannonmous for obvious reasons, and if the RIAA sues fans,e xpect the Artists to drop the Annonimity and speak forward, either way, the RIAA is going to b in cntempt as much as P2P users for awhile now, this has become a war of sorts, and as a war, it's going to hurt people, not the way bombs do, but the way taxes adn poverty do, everyone will be effected and on that note, I will wait, to see if the RIAA can get their suit's to work, because I honestly belvie in the end, they willf ail, and moe loopholes willa ppear and the RIAA will become the next Microsoft with fans suing them, eventually nobody will win, or the Fans will win in the end, the VCR had this same test and look who won? The fans, simple as that.

What the RIAA doens't relize is theya re now out of the Seller's market and into the BUyer's Market and the buyer's they hurt will most likely nevr buy an RIAA-Related CD again, as a result of this, sales will drop artists will move to indepndant labels and the RIAA will dissolve, they are desperate fi theyr'e suing individuals now, and they should be desperate, they know this is a battle they can't win, not uless they arest every person wiht a computer and CDs, and you'd need a prison the size of the enitre country to do that.