EFF report on four years of RIAA vs P2P

Boing Boing: “EFF has published the latest installment in its annual RIAA v. The
People, “Four Years Later,” which is a comprehensive, exhaustively
researched and cited white-paper on the RIAA’s campaign against music
downloaders. The paper starts with the earliest days, when the record
companies went after companies manufacturing portable music players,
and continues up to the present day, with these companies suing tens of
thousands of individual music fans (including people who don’t own
computers, small children, military servicepeople, dead people, etc),
often for sums that end up bankrupting them. EFF describes other RIAA
initiatives, such as a deceptive “amnesty” campaign, advising a MIT
student to drop out of school in order to pay her fines, and using
universities and Congress to try to shake down students for thousands
of dollars.”

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