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   From: deedlydee@earthlink.net   
      
   bwalker wrote:   
      
   > A 12 year old girl is least likely to be aware of the law. She's still a   
   > children (sic) for christ's sake, you don't prosecute her like she was an   
   > adult.   
   >    
      
   When I was twelve, I was quite well aware of what stealing was and that   
   theives go to jail. 12 year olds aren't *that* innocent. The issue here, as   
   I see it, is that you think it isn't wrong to steal music, and you're hiding   
   behind the "poor, innocent little girl" as a means to your own end. From   
   what I've heard of the sort of fines that the RIAA is planning to levy   
   against file sharers, that little "children" got off extremely light. I'm   
   hearing there's gonna be penalties in the tens of thousands of dollars *per   
   song* in some cases. If you've been ripping music files and sharing them out   
   on the web, I'd be a lot less concerned about what they were doing to some   
   little girl and a lot more concerned that they might be coming after you   
   next. News I hear is that they're definitely going after more people, the   
   original 261 are just the first wave of indictments.   
      
   Whether you agree with their politics or not, You've got to respect that   
   they're frigging serious. We're talking about a fight for survival here --   
   record industry earnings are down, down, down over the last three years, as   
   high -- speed internet is spreading like wildfire and sharing larger files   
   gets easier and easier. These are large multinational corporations employing   
   very smart people who want to keep their high-paying jobs. Are you ready to   
   go the distance against these guys for the right to download Justin   
   Timberlake's music against his will (probably what the 12 year old was   
   sharing out)? Frankly, that's a battle I don't feel like I could commit much   
   energy to even if I agreed with you. And as a n independant recording   
   artist, I really, really don't agree with you.   
      
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