{"id":3658,"date":"2006-04-27T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T00:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/04\/27\/petition-congress-to-oppose-riaa-law"},"modified":"2006-04-27T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T00:24:07","slug":"petition-congress-to-oppose-riaa-lawsuits-forge-better-way-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/04\/27\/petition-congress-to-oppose-riaa-lawsuits-forge-better-way-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition Congress to Oppose RIAA Lawsuits, Forge Better Way Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In response to the RIAA’s irrational lawsuit campaign against the tens of millions of American P2P users<\/A>, EFF set up a petition<\/A> asking Congress to stop the madness and support ways for artists to get paid without fans getting sued. We’re now close to our goal of 100,000 signatures, and, with your help, we hope to surpass it by a longshot and deliver the petition to Congress. <\/P>
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After over 18,000 lawsuits and counting<\/A>, file sharing has continued to increase rapidly. Meanwhile, music fans, like 12 year-old Brittany LaHara<\/A>, college student Cassi Hunt<\/A>, and parent of five Cecilia Gonzalez<\/A>, are being forced to pay thousands of dollars they do not have to settle RIAA-member lawsuits, and many other innocent individuals<\/A> are being caught in the crossfire. <\/P>
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But resistance to this shameful crusade is growing. Just this week, many top Canadian musical artists<\/A>, including Barenaked Ladies and Avril Lavigne, called the lawsuits “destructive and hypocritical,” and a court threw out<\/A> a lawsuit against 14 year-old Brittany Chan. <\/P>
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It’s time for Congress to join the chorus of opposition and stop kowtowing to the content cartel. Sign the petition<\/A>, and donate to EFF<\/A> to support a better way forward.<\/A><\/P>
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(Cross posted at Deep Links<\/A>)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to the RIAA’s irrational lawsuit campaign against the tens of millions of American P2P users, EFF set up a petition asking Congress to stop the madness and support ways for artists to get paid without fans getting sued. We’re now close to our goal of 100,000 signatures, and, with your help, we hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}