Blog: RIAA worse than illegal downloaders

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Technically, what the RIAA is doing seems legal--it is suing people for illegally accessing their property. However, just as their legal targets are getting otherwise legal content in an illicit method, so is the RIAA. The methods they are using the get money from people are as illicit as the music their targets are downloading. Blindly suing thousands of people, not really knowing whether they deserve to be sued? Using nuisance-lawsuit methods to essentially extort money from people, designing the "settlement" so that people will give in even if they didn't do anything illegal? Crafting legal tactics that keep their illicit strategy from being exposed in court? In a very real way, the RIAA is doing something far worse than any of those college students.