Originally posted here by dalek
Then what do you consider, with all of the resources available to RIAA/MPAA and the prosecuter's targetting 12 yr olds? who probably get a couple of bucks allowance...why is it we very rarely read where they are going to take on a major University because of all the downloading that goes on with these places, or better yet the people who are obviously (through the major use of bandwidth) downloading to sell on the blackmarket (the ISP's know who these people are as they cut them off because of bandwidth abuse).My analogy may have been lame, but it is still relevant, the biggest will always go after the smallest....


I'm sorry that you haven't read about it, but the RIAA and MPAA have sued Universities in the past... Businesses too. - Here's an example...

University Suit

Try this, it might help...

Google Search

>the biggest will always go after the smallest....

No, I think the RIAA/MPAA are going after the easiest to stop. It costs them a lot of money to sue to stop an application like Napster. It's easier to get a suit against a single individual. Besides, if they went after every person downloading, probably 50% of the country would be getting served.

P2P hosts are getting shut down all the time, every day. I can't help it that you only remember the headlines of 12 yr olds being sued.

Originally posted here by dalek

Correct, the RIAA/MPAA are trying to insinuate themselves into foreign affairs by forcing politicians to play hardball with these countries, and to me that's okay, when you say businesses do you mean the organisations of RIAA/MPAA or someone else, I am not sure where it is your lost..if it is the RIAA/MPAA you are referring to, then yes, they are not applying the same rules to everyone, as you said Napster were targetted, unfairly for it's users, so was a couple of other's Kazaa, Emule etc. But as you can see there are quite a few options still available for people to install a P2P and download copyrighted material.
They are doing what they can to stop it. I don't think part of their business model is to sue only 12 year olds and 75 year old grandparents that live in the Bible Belt of the USA.