Now that the RIAA has (at least temporarily) announced an end to their idiotic "sue the customers" theory of operation, they are finding out that their new "get the ISPs involved" tack might cost money:

The RIAA's announcement last week of an end to its P2P lawsuits in favor of working with ISPs to warn or cut off offenders was almost unanimously praised as a move in the right direction. There are a lot of "ifs" in the equation, however, and it appears that one small ISP has already stumbled upon the first: policing P2P users isn't cheap no matter who is waving the baton.

I have a really wild idea for these guys - instead of pondering how much is being stolen, look at the other end of the problem: how hard is it to buy your stuff, and how much DRM are you weighing it down with? If you made it easy to by, I suspect a lot of the "piracy" would go away. And no, individual file sharing is not piracy, any more than passing cassette tapes around was back in the 70's. It's the way people learn about new music from their friends, and they often end up buying more of it as a result.

Now Listening to: Who Says You Can't Go Home (Featuring Jennifer Nettles) by Bon Jovi & Jennifer Nettles from: Have a Nice Day

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