A student at MIT and the RIAA have been negotiating a settlement to another copyright infringement lawsuit for months now. The student does not have the money to pay the huge fines the RIAA is seeking, but the RIAA knows this student is hiding the money somewhere. Where could it be? But of course, she is wasting money on a first-class education. She could be using that money to pay off the RIAA. All she has to do is drop out of MIT and she'll have the money. This logic makes little sense, of course, because college drop-outs have much lower earning power than graduates, especially those from MIT. Low salary seems to be a contributing factor for music pirates. Of course, nobody ever accused the RIAA of using logic.
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The RIAA has raised nearly $100 million from its lawsuits against 12-year-olds and grandmothers in the past few years. They claim they are filing these lawsuits to curb piracy and protect their "clients," but who are they really protecting? The music industry is making record profits, thanks to the combined sales of CDs and digital music files via iTunes and other legitimate distributors, and piracy has not been slowed at all by the lawsuits. So what's the point? The RIAA seems to have the wrong person with a large number of the lawsuits they file. Every week I read a new story about an 85-year-old farmer who has never owned a computer in his life being sued for music piracy. These stories may be entertaining to most, but they are a real stress on the poor people who have to go before a judge and prove that there is no way they could have done what the lawsuit says they did.
RIAA Profits Nearly $100 Million by Suing P2P Users - The Pirate Times