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Originally Posted by Cyclone_MI
Rules are the same, I agree. But you have to approach the situation (if you're the RIAA) knowing that you can't arrest every person who downloads material and that downloading will not stop. So you have to be smart and adapt to a new reality, otherwise you will always be on the losing end. People simply don't care. There are many ways to bring both parts together, but the RIAA chose confrontation and bullying, and where did that take them?
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Oh, no doubt the RIAA handled this about as poorly as they could have. They sued what should have been their best customers instead of trying to adapt to the realities of the marketplace. At least some schools have been refusing to turn over the identities of their students recently (Oregon and Harvard IIRC).
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