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Ars Technica reports:

Nothing more than IP addresses sit at the foundation of most of the RIAA’s subpoenas and prelitigation letters, and the University of Washington says it has problems passing on legal threats based on them.

Although the amateur sysadmin in me says mapping a person to an IP is an easy task, the freedom-loving college student in me applauds the administration of these schools.

Really, it doesn’t matter how trivial the investigation is. RIAA, if they have any thread of conscience, even though it’s clear that they don’t, should do its own dirty work, not force innocent third party (school, as a general ISP, is protected by safe harbor provision of DMCA) or the government (RIAA tried to make DoJ bring civil suits on its behalf, I think).

“The unauthorized uploading or downloading of music is illegal. It is just as wrong as shoplifting from a local record store.” Well, beyond the question of legality (after all, RIAA wrote the damn law), I think it’s clear what’s more immoral: sharing (hopefully) good songs freely with others, or theft of the public domain by RIAA and media giants. Theft of the public domain by repeated retroactive extensions of copyright is utterly immoral, perhaps even more wrong than pilfering public coffers. Oh, they are in such a fine shape to discuss who’s committing a more grave wrong on whom.

Take this for an example. The morally-decrepit democrats want to give these scums “right to break any existing law” in order to protect their outdated business model and immoral practices. Under this situation, clearly only an idiot would take “the law” as defining what’s right, Socrates be damned.

Use your common sense. One group wants to share and share alike (to the public’s benefit), and another wants to hoard (for its own exorbitant profit to the public’s detriment) and break laws in order to continue hoarding. RIAA is immoral, and their agents, the democrats, are the devil’s tools.