RIAA is at it again…

Individual users beware the music industry is once again filing suit against individual users for piracy.  http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/nation/16562019.htm

How fair is it for parents to be held liable for their children’s acts of piracy and if this is such a hindrance on the music industry as the RIAA claims then why have they not sought criminal action against these individual users.  The link above is an article based out of South Carolina.  It appears those interviewed are parents of children that downloaded pirated music up to five years ago.  As it stands the statute of limitations doesn’t begin to run until the copyright holder knew or should have known about the alleged violation.  This leaves a person open to suit for years and years and can leave them vulnerable to an industry that can afford to wait until the person has downloaded so much that the amount of money owed would be high enough to put them into a financial constraint for years to come.  Is this determent or is it outright egregious and greedy conduct by the recording industry?

RIAA representive Jenni Engebretsen compared the piracy to going to a music to store and stealing the CD itself.  I do agree that the analogy is correct, there is no difference however, where I do not agree is that the RIAA is going after the parents not the children what lesson does it teach the child if it is there parents that are being sought.  Although I don’t think it necessary to give a child a record for theft but maybe this course will be more a teaching tool to children that piracy is stealing and it is wrong to do so.  Its time for the children to suffer the consequences as opposed to the parents who are simply subcribers to an internet service provider.