RIAA will take 2191.78 years to sue everyone, 75 subpoenas a day

Sundog lets us know about an interesting story
over at The Inquirer website. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) there are, in the U.S. alone, 60 million people sharing files.
If the RIAA wants to sue all of them at the current 75 subpoenas a day, it would
take them 2191.78 years to sue
everyone:


She said: "I pulled out my calculator to see just how long it
would take the RIAA to sue all 60 million P2P music file traders at a rate
of 75 a day. 60,000,000/75 = 800,000 days to subpoena each person or
800,000 days/365 days in a year = 2191.78 years to subpoena each person".

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Michaela points out that it's unrealistic to suppose that
the RIAA will have any money left in 2191 years, and she even wonders
whether the trade association will exist then.

Plus, she points out, given the rate of tech advancement,
it's likely that we'll have moved on to many different types of music
media in even a hundred years.

She continues: "So let us consider more realistic numbers.
The RIAA plans to sue thousands of file sharers. Working in
increments of 5000: 5,000 people/75 subpoenas a day = 66 days How are they
going to keep track of all these lawsuits going on? 10,000 people/75
subpoenas a day = 133 days or about 2/3 of a
year.

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"Keep in mind suing 10,000 people is still only
going to impact only one six thousandth (1/6000) of the
file traders out there. And who is getting rich off of this? The lawyers.
Betcha not a single musician will see a cent of this
money.


According to the article it will take the RIAA 219 years to process six
million people so that 1 out of every 10 Americans using file-sharing software
is affected... So this would mean that the RIAA would have to sue your
grandchildren!

Source: The Inquirer

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