{"id":1242,"date":"2003-08-21T00:11:57","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T04:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/21\/can-i-just-declare-bankrupcy-now\/"},"modified":"2003-08-21T00:11:57","modified_gmt":"2003-08-21T04:11:57","slug":"can-i-just-declare-bankrupcy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/21\/can-i-just-declare-bankrupcy-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Just Declare Bankrupcy Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The war against downladed music goes on.  On one front, the proposed
\n Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act is working
\n its way through Congress and if you care about this sort of thing you
\n should let your congressman know<\/a>. Under the provisions of the law (up
\n to $250,000 fine and 5 years in stir for each offense)
\n I figure I owe the RIAA about $1 billion dollars and 20,000 years in
\n jail.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Recording Industry Association
\n of America continues sending out subpoenas to individual
\n downloaders as well as colleges and ISPs demanding that they turn over
\n information on indivdual users.  So far they have sent out over
\n 900, to students, parents of minor miscreants, Internet service providers
\n and even grandparents. No one can figure out how the lucky 900 were selected,
\n giving rise to speculation they were chosen at random, in a kind of reverse
\n lottery.<\/p>\n

Partly to address this speculation, the RIAA said on Monday it would
\n go after "substantial" file
\n sharers rather than "de minimis users" of music-file-sharing
\n programs. However, as they have so far not said what "substancial" means
\n folks are still unable to classify their own risk level. This may or
\n may not be what the RIAA intends.<\/p>\n

"That makes me nervous," said Rob, an avid user of the Grokster
\n service who declined to give his last name. "If they (RIAA) are
\n not going to say how much traffic is ‘high,’ I’m not going to say how
\n much I’ve downloaded." <\/p>\n

an enlightening analysis from Wired<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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