Getting insurance for legal extorsion when dealing with the mass of poeple using p2p say the odds are good you are wasting your money. Another thought to go with this is that it may well be a short term thing for the RIAA and cartels in the long haul.

Lately they’ve decided their getting lambasted in the public opinion with whatever comes out. In that light they have claimed to have changed their tactics to deal on a local level instead of using national media. It appears to me that they are thinking the damage will be less in more localized settings as long as they can keep it out of the national media.

To my line of thought this is an even worse idea than plastering it over national news. In national news, the event has reached such commonplace standing that it no longer has shock value. Certainly those in other geographical areas are saying too bad for them but not for me.

For those that will now read that Joe Six Pack, the quiet guy down the street is *gasp* a file sharer, won’t hit them as hard in the sense of disconnection. Instead Joe Six Pack may be the guy whose family comes over for the weekend B-B-Que. As such, this guy will have far more sympathy and far less disconnection from the event. Turning yet more against the cartels and the **AA pet lapdogs. At a local level it may allow less chance to snare kin of an important personage but then again, I wonder how many hits to date have happened in Washington DC as a whole.

I think the long term sue em all is a deadend street for the cartels. That it is just a matter of time before they see diminishing returns as a direct result of these actions. While it is true that licensing will still carry high costs for movies and the like, part of the whole was the public favoring their artists as fans. The public now feels very disconnected from the artist and that fan support is no longer at the levels it once was.

It was rank extortion then, and it’s rank extortion now.