RIAA, MPAA and other bullies.

After all the years of piracy and privacy talk, who is been left behind? Who's getting the worst part of the deal? Not surprisingly, the individual is the one who suffers the most. Nowadays, surprisingly, individuals who create and individuals who appreciate were both been sent to the guillotine alike.

Anyway, this is what our contemporary world looks like: people getting sued, then suing back. Who's the big bad wolf on this case? Of course, a corporation: people working trying not to get fired, trying to save a dead company, who once was part of a presently dead industry. Nobody needs CDs anymore, DRM is just a bad joke.

The worst part is not this, however. Remember the people who created art? And there's a lot of people like that at this moment, writing, playing, recording and distributing. Those people had no one to look out for them, and they were ripped by the companies who promised to protect them, for a reasonable fee... Just like a school bully: you'll pay for my protection.

Right now, there's nobody "protecting" creative rights of people releasing their works on the internet (torrents, webpages, myspace.com and whatever new formats come along). And now they can look after themselves, you know? They're doing great without any help from any "association" or "guild".