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> The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), in its blind obsession with profit, has allowed greed to get in the way of intelligence, provoking a massive confrontation involving Hollywood and its MPAA, the American Association of Publishers and the George W. Bush administration in the shape of America’s self-described Top Cop, attorney general Alberto Gonzales, all of whom are lining up against not only Barker and all the other RIAA victims out there, but against the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the trade associations which represent most of the giants of the internet and computer industries, says Beckerman.
The RIAA has claimed that by putting files in any shared folder, you’re infringing on copyright even if no copies are made or the content is legal to begin with. This means that if the RIAA gets it’s way, the US internet becomes illegal, as the internet is in effect just a huge amount of shared files in public folders.
