paul_venezia
Senior Contributing Editor

Severe lack of clue

analysis
Apr 4, 20031 min

When will the madness end? It's no secret that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, but how much force must be exerted on the massively backwards RIAA and MPAA to show them the blatantly obvious? Trying to legislate the continuation of their outdated business model, extortion tactics, blinding ignorance, blah blah blah. These arguments are old news, having been being made for years, but the RIAA going af

When will the madness end? It’s no secret that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, but how much force must be exerted on the massively backwards RIAA and MPAA to show them the blatantly obvious? Trying to legislate the continuation of their outdated business model, extortion tactics, blinding ignorance, blah blah blah. These arguments are old news, having been being made for years, but the RIAA going after college networks takes the cake. What’s next?

Oh, right. They want to make the Internet illegal, for all intents and purposes.

It seems that they’ll stop only when they pay for a law requiring every human being to have a Britney Spears-spewing audio implant that costs $600 a month. How about a tax on air? “Music pirates” use air when they’re “pirating”, right?