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05/28/2004 Entry: "Make 'em an offer"
So the RIAA BrownShirts went after a poor single mother with a music luvin' daughter.
I have an idea. Offer to pay them. Yes, she doesn't have the money, and there's no way in hell anyone is going to loan her $4000. But she can offer to give them $5/month out of her daughter's lunch money. The only alternative is for her to declare bankrupcy, which she probably can't afford to do either, but for the RIAA it's blood from a turnip.
At this point, she's negotiating. They can try to sue her, drag her into court for $500,000 or whatever damages they can trump up, and she can bring her 15 year old daughter in with her so the world can see what a bunch of vicious bastards the RIAA really are. When they "win", guess what, she can't afford to pay them, so now they're out real costs, not just the trumped up damages they claim the daughter cost them in profits. It's like contesting a ticket and making the cop show up in court. But in this case, if they show up, it costs them real dough, and since she doesn't have any, it won't cost her anything but her time and the time of a pro-bono lawyer, of which I suspect one or two would agree to take her case. Not all lawyers are as heartless as the RIAA's blood-sucking leeches - or am I being a a pollyanna optimist about this...? Hard to say.
But offer the $5/month. Oh, and tell her daughter to share her music from other people's houses, 'cause mommy's broke.
Heck, I'd donate money to the pro-bono lawyer just to see those bastards in court. I don't think anyone's made a real court challenge yet, since they "reduce" their damages to something most people can afford, albeit painfully. For this woman, they'd need to reduce it further to around $400 before paying would be worth it to her but still cause her significant pain.
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