It gives lie to the idea that these self appointed cartels and their enforcers are needed. Rather that we the people, need protection from them. Other than those such as Spitzer (who is undoubtedly riding the oppurtunity for political gain) there are little in the way of protections for those of us actually needing the protection. It demonstrates that the bullyboy approach is in force and that these protections for the cartels have gone way to far in their favor and need be readjusted to the actualities of the real world and not to the hype of whoever can put out the most believable trash.

Certainly the statutory penalties now in existance for infringement with gain are all out of bounds for the real world picture of ads contributing to “financial gain” viewpoint when they by themselves can not in good conscience be called gain when they pay far less than it takes to maintain a server or site. This is nothing short of blatent misrespresention of the facts and claims that fall far short of the protrayed events of profit by for sale means that is being used as the the club for the penalties. Nor do the actions of most file sharers fit into this picture, gaining nothing through the file sharing as a means of profit. It is only by stretching the “for profit” motive to read denial of profit that it is used. One could just as well say that cattle grazing grass is denying feed corporations of profit with that sort of logic. Or that your cooking at home was denying profit to restraunts, suppliers, and taxation through that lack of spending.

I hope this turns around to bite them in the ass in the worse sort of way.