June 24, 2008

RIAA under attack from the EEF

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and The Electronic Frontier Foundation are locking horns on the subject of P2P.

The problems lies with the way that the RIAA are going about their legal cases, this is what EEF are looking to upset and it is all going to boil down to exactly what is copyright.

All of this is coming about because of the new copyright act which is set to not only protect the owners of music, software and film but is being said that it will make a criminal of millions of people who have unwittingly sold, exchanged or even given away all or part of anything that has been copyrighted.

It is unclear how this is going to affect the ordinary man in the street, but it is scary enough to put fear into the minds of many users of the internet, music and computers.

Source [Ars Technica]