Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.

Before I get into this let me say that I support buying CDs 100% and personally have a collection of 400+ CDs. However, I also download albums, sample them, and then do one of two things: buy it if I like it, or delete it. That being said...

The RIAA successfully sued Joel Tenenbaum $675 000 and is still concerned enough to ask the court for an injunction in order to, "prohibit defendant from causing additional irreparable injury to plaintiffs." Joel is only the second person to not settle out-of-court in piracy lawsuits from the RIAA. I'm not a Moby fan but I think he summed it up the best in June when he posted the following blog to his website in reference to the only other person to actually go to court with the RIAA:

argh. what utter nonsense. this is how the record companies want to protect themselves? suing suburban moms for listening to music? charging $80,000 per song?

punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. maybe the record companies have adopted the 'it's better to be feared than respected' approach to dealing with music fans. i don't know, but 'it's better to be feared than respected' doesn't seem like such a sustainable business model when it comes to consumer choice. how about a new model of 'it's better to be loved for helping artists make good records and giving consumers great records at reasonable prices'?

i'm so sorry that any music fan anywhere is ever made to feel bad for making the effort to listen to music.

the riaa needs to be disbanded.

moby"