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“How low can you go? The RIAA will start house searchings for illegally copied material later this month, meanwhile they are scaring the shit out of downloaders by sending out subpoena's to kids and students... Way to go, nice marketing job people... Doesn't anyone in the music industry understand their business anymore?” (Randy, AfterNapster.com, ND) Sadly, he is speaking the truth. It took over a year of court cases to finally shut down Napster, and now there are 32 P2P programs out, so shutting all of them down wouldn’t only take a while, it would be completely pointless. At first the RIAA would pick mp3s that had been downloaded a lot, and release new versions of it that have been scrambled at the around the 2 minute mark, making it unplayable, but eventually file sharers got around that, so they did the unthinkable, they targeted individual users. At first people thought it was another threat that the RIAA wouldn’t act upon, but when they sued a 12 year old girl for downloading, people became scared. Jack Buehrer, of TheNewsMessenger.com, had this to say about it:
“The enemy has been found.
We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief, for the U.S. has finally captured one of the most insane and elusive criminals this nation has ever known.
The nation can now rest assured that this brilliant yet misguided mind that has been terrorizing New York City the past couple of years is now being brought to justice.
Her name is Brianna and she lives in Manhattan.
She's 12 years old.
And her reign as a recreational downloader of Internet music is over.
Finally.” (Buehrer, September 11, 2003)