RIAA Says "Wanna Fight? It'll Cost You!"

jeiler writes "Ars has the details on an RIAA strategy to double the cost of settling copyright infringement suits for students who try to quash the group's subpoenas in court. In a nutshell: settle early, pay $3,000; try to quash the subpoena and the settlement cost rises to $8,000."

Shouldn't matter...

[Slashdot Suxxors]

If half the RIAA's claims are as bogus as some say they are, the cost to settle shouldn't matter. Because you should win if you haven't done anything wrong. Right?

Right?

Strategies..

[New_Age_Reform_Act]

Preventive measure...

1.) Offshore proxy
2.) Encrypt your network traffic
3.) Change your MAC address from factory default if you can

Now let say you got your notice, now you should...

1.) Move your assets offshore, i.e. Carribean, Switzerland, cayman island etc.
2.) Practice your legal rights, especially the fifth amendment and the second amendment of the U.S. constitution.
3.) If all else fails, move to Canada or elsewhere to seek political asylum, claiming POW status, as **AA is basically a war machine against humanity.

Go ahead, punks, make my day...

[Max Threshold]

Eight grand is about what I make in a year. For a year's salary, I'd shoot a lawyer in the back of the head, cut them up, pour concrete over them, and toss them off a bridge. (Don't worry, I would never do that to an actual human being.)

Re:But...

[Ardaen]

Wait wait wait, they pay the artists?

RIAA!

[portnux]

When is the RIAA going to finally crack down on people that play music loudly enough to be heard by others? There are many times during the day that I can plainly hear music from other automobiles while on the road and from co-workers radios while at work. This is plainly a violation. Anyone that plays music at a volume that can be heard by others should be charged for a special license to redistribute and violators should be crushed by the full weight of the mighty music industry. I cannot believe these intellectual rights violators have been getting away with this obviously criminal activity for so long!