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... Recently, the RIAA has been exploiting personal computer owners that use Kazaa Media Desktop, a popular peer-to-peer software title. ... The RIAA insists that music swapping is illegal and should be a criminal offense. However, I consider what the RIAA is doing to be unauthorized and contradictory. ... For the RIAA to find users distributing music, they themselves have to engage in an illegal pursuit. The association deploys its attack by using a hacked version of Kazaa Media Desktop called Kazaa Lite. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act states that it is illegal to operate commercially pirated software, which is exactly what the RIAA is doing. ... Why must the RIAA use illegal methods to search for file swappers? The RIAA uses Kazaa Lite to hunt down Kazaa users in order to file copyright claims against alleged file sharers. Not only is the RIAA using pirated software, they are also violating license agreements prohibiting users from monitoring traffic or making search requests in order to accumulate information about individual users.
Approximate Word count = 796
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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