Freyar Wrote:Nupopo Wrote:2. The RIAA has nothing to do with software only music...
That doesn't meant he RIAA won't push hard to get the same status as software. We're talking about a group that wants radios (and thus royalty revenue) in every piece of electronic equipment.
There's quite a bit of a difference between the RIAA being able to enforce anything and a software organization being able to enforce something. Software can track usage, requires updates, and has many active features while music is just flat data. Even if the RIAA somehow got music, movies, or any other flat data to fall in the same category as software how would they enforce it any better than they do trying to tag music pirates (which they are horrible at btw)? And for that matter how many people buy used CDs/music? Most people I know buy their music either from a store that cells new CDs or from an online distributer which would be the same as buying something new. The only exception I can think of are vinyl records and old tapes, but the major record companies associated with the RIAA don't even produce those anymore, so I doubt they'd be scrounging around garage sales trying to peg someone.
The problem with being paranoid about the RIAA or any other private copyright enforcement agency is that there are too many people in the world with a computer, the Internet, and just day-to-day friends. It costs too much money to catch everyone (or anyone) and if someone decides to fight back it costs them much more than they gain. It pretty much all works off of fear, so as long as you just ignore them they lose.
