Regular readers already know that the RIAA's unrelenting crusade against the music consumer is both one of my favorite subjects and one of my pet peeves. The legal process used by the RIAA goonsquad against so-called "Internet Pirates" has mostly been veiled in mystery...of course, the less the public knows about what these "defenders of artist's rights" is doing, and how they're doing it, the more acceptable the process appears.

Over at the Digital Music weblog, writer Grant Robertson has taken a paper written by pro-consumer attorney Ray Beckerman about the RIAA's legal process, and created this easy-to-use "layman's guide" to The RIAA Vs. John Doe. It's well worth reading for an inside look at the organization's clever manipulation of the law to extort money out of people accused of sharing as few as five songs online. If you read this piece and aren't pissed off, then you'll never understand why the RIAA's heavy-handed actions against file traders are more reprehensible than all the file trading combined.

Not surprisingly, none of the money that the Recording Industry Association Of America coerces from the people it legally extorts ever makes its way back to the artists that it was allegedly stolen from. Read the guide and then participate in Gizmodo's RIAA boycott.

        

 

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