Record Companies Under Fire by 16yr old
The papers allege that the companies, “ostensibly competitors in the recording industry, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and public policy” by bringing the piracy cases jointly and using the same agency “to make extortionate threats … to force defendants to pay.”
The Recording Industry Association of America, which has coordinated most of the lawsuits, issued a statement saying, “The record industry has suffered enormously due to piracy… We must protect our rights.”
Being American certainly has had it’s advantages. From the moments on Capitol Hill, with words asunder, from lips of most every denomination and creed, to the seemingly innocent text that consumes the crawl at the bottom of CNN’s captioned pretext, “Breaking News”, there has always been and will always be a poison and hot breath that spews for civil liberties–freedoms of all sorts and the thirst for profound bits of knowledge.
This young Sprout definitely has his work cut out for him, however, as he is fighting in the name of his own self-interests in attempts to cause the courts to think twice on the reparations, whined for by the Record Industry filing charges, he’s brought a new meaning for justice: take the focus away from one issue and describe another. At any rate, I’m oddly impressed. We are seeing a new age for internet freedom and personal liberties. Question is, how far is the American government willing to go to protect our freedoms, more specifically, how whose side is going to be found to be more justified, beyond a shadow of a doubt, with the judgement calls of the institution based on “power of the people”.
