Looks like the RIAA is at it again in their latest batch of frivolous lawsuits. See, it's one thing to sue 12 year-old girls, grandmas, dead people, and cash-strapped college students; but it's another to target [stroke patients]
(tinfoil.music) The RIAA has now brought suit against a stroke victim in Michigan in Warner v. Paladuk:
Although the defendant John Paladuk, an employee of C&N Railroad for 36 years, was living in Florida at the time of the alleged copyright suit, and had notified the RIAA that he had not engaged in any copyright infringement, and despite that the fact that Mr. Paladuk suffered a stroke last year which resulted in complete paralysis of his entire left side and severely impaired speech, rendering him disabled, and despite the fact that his disability check is his sole source of income, the RIAA commenced suit against him on February 27, 2007. see full story for more - that's one way to make up for sagging profits]
...While the RIAA talks about how their sales have dropped over the past few years, their counterpart in the movie industry (and no less [ bat-shit crazy when it comes to abusing copyright law] has seen its sales increase to record levels. Granted movie downloading is more tedious than music downloading (taking longer to download) file-sharing overall has not been hindered by the RIAA's three year-old lawsuit campaign.
Perhaps the reason why the RIAA is suffering is because people are tired of having to pay $20 for CDs with only one or two good songs, with the only alternative being DRMed songs on itunes that can only play on your ipod (with itunes competitors, their songs cannot play on your ipod...there is no interoperability!) File-sharing offers convenience to consumers, and suing people to make a point won't make it go away.