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So Ed, please tell me how pissing off the people that arent paying for your product are going to make them not pay even more? It sounds to me like they are only pissing off the people that are not paying already.

What the RIAA is hoping is that they can hit a few hundred big violators hard enough and public enough that they will get the more temid of the downloaders to stop and go back to buying music. They will also get the big file sharers to quit sharing and make the process of downloading enough of a chore that people will go back to buying.

Will it work? Dunno. Probably will help them a bit, but there will always be a way.

Will it backfire? I cant really see how. God forbid that I hurt the feelings of the shoplifter by calling the cops. He might not come back and buy anymore from us, because he stole it just to "test it out".

Please note - I make no reference to right or wrong. I dont care. But its kind of silly to say that they are hurting themselves by going after teh guys that are costing them tons of money. I dont care what a cd costs. When one option is free, the other option will always be too much.