Originally posted by EriksShadow
What about people in the 80's and early 90s who made mix tapes off the radio... or off their friends tapes instead of going out and buying the whole album.
No one went after them.
Or when your buddy copied a video tape for you cause you don't feel like buying it.
It's just today's technology.. and the RIAA needs to get over it.
You're correct. They didn't go after the average Joe making 3 copies for friends. They DID, however, go after people that were making 3,000 copies a week and selling them.
No, you're not selling it if it's shared by Kazaa, but you are making it super easy for anyone, anywhere with a pc and Kazaa to download it and share it too.
It's not really the fact that you're sharing it, it's that anyone with a computer and a net connection and easily download just about anything they want, for free. That's what they are going after.
Plus they have no way of knowing if John Smith in Scranton, PA is making a copy or not. You pay with cash and it's 100% annonymous. Kazaa, is not. You have a name. It's traceable.