an example of an aggressive defense against RIAA claims

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Mon Jan 7 10:36:09 MST 2008


On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 10:31 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > The public relations aspect is clearly of lesser concern...look at
> > Thomas, a single mother. On a scale of public relations nightmares,
> > picking on old ladies, young children, young mothers with children are
> > the next least desirable from a public relations point of view. But
> > obviously the case climate is what they saw as favorable and so they
> > proceeded.
> 
> I don't think we disagree here. By 'PR campaign' I meant RIAA's  
> campaign to scare people, not some campaign to be popular. I think  
> they  know that their target demographic tends to be judgement proof  
> in the sense that they are young and too poor to actually pay any  
> awards that the RIAA might win. So the RIAA is effectively saying,  
> 'It's not just about money.  We will invade your privacy and trash  
> your reputation if you cross us'.
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OK, accepting that, why on earth did you say that you expected them to
drop the Howell case?

You seem to flip your opinions around from one post to the next.

Craig



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