Re: RIAA Strikes B.U. & M.I.T.

[Mark Laurence <mlaurence@mindspring.com>]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 02:18  AM, Joseph Pappalardo wrote:

> If I make them available to myself for personal use...and someone else 
> takes
> them.
>
> Why is that my fault?  Why should I be charged?

As long as Kazaa or other sharing services were not turned on, your 
online files would not be indexed and the RIAA would not know they were 
there.  If you did turn on Kazaa, and claimed you were using it for 
personal sharing purposes, I don't think a judge or jury would believe 
you.

Mark