Well, hell, it was done to me last year (by a smaller, less-significant company run by an egotistical would-be megalomaniac with a bruised ego), so why shouldn’t the RIAA try to silence one of its most vocal critics by pursuing legal sanctions against him¹ for calling their litigious activities frivolous and wasteful? Trouble is, this guy’s a lawyer.

This is the single best example of how broken our nation is. The court system wasn’t put in place so people could abuse each other. Imagine the look on a founding father’s face if he realized that a couple hundred years after he created our modern legal system, it would be used to bankrupt people for bootlegging a CD. The legislature wasn’t put in place to be purchased to the point that it simply rubber-stamps laws that private corporate interests wanted on the books, but that’s where we are now (with the DMCA long-codified in law, enhanced last year with additional laws, and now the Senate Judiciary Committee fast-tracking yet another enhancement that gives the federal government the power and mandate to bring civil suits against file sharers itself). The executive branch wasn’t mean to be a de facto dictatorship, but here we are.

How much more of this will it take to get some of you people off your asses to vote, to hold your elected officials accountable, to demand punishment of the real criminals, and to reclaim our fucking country?

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