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Send the RIAA your holiday greetings
The music industry (or at least, EMI) is dipping a pinkie toe into the water of DRM-less music, toying with sales of unrestricted song files from Lily Allen and Norah Jones. In a more typical gesture, the RIAA recently petitioned a panel of copyright judges to let them lower the rate of compensation to songwriters, for some nebulous reason involving ringtone and the more likely fact that they're greedy bastards.
The other fun RIAA tactic this year has been suing naughty boys and girls. The Electronic Freedom Foundation is circulating a petition calling on Congress to stop suing private citizens for exorbitant amounts of money. You can find the form here. The petition reads as follows:
To The United States Congress:
We are the customers and former customers of the member labels of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). We love music and will gladly pay a fair price for it, but we are outraged by the RIAA's tactics in suing ordinary Americans for filesharing.
We condemn the RIAA's choice to force the family of a 12 year-old girl to forfeit $2,000 - money that could have gone to feed, clothe and educate this honor student. We stand with the retirees, parents, children and others who have been caught in the RIAA's line of fire.
We respect reasonable copyright law, but we strongly oppose copyright enforcement that comes at the expense of privacy, due process and fair application of the law.
We urge you, as our representatives in Congress, to stop this madness.
We oppose the recording industry's decision to attack the public, bankrupt its customers and offer false amnesty to those who would impugn themselves. We call instead for a real amnesty: the development of a legal alternative that preserves file-sharing technology while ensuring that artists are fairly compensated.
In signing this petition, we formally request that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), as representatives of the public interest, be included in any upcoming hearings regarding the proper scope of copyright enforcement in the digital age.
We sincerely thank you for your time.
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