Can I Just Declare Bankrupcy Now?

The war against downladed music goes on.  On one front, the proposed
Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act is working
its way through Congress and if you care about this sort of thing you
should let your congressman know. Under the provisions of the law (up
to $250,000 fine and 5 years in stir for each offense)
I figure I owe the RIAA about $1 billion dollars and 20,000 years in
jail.

Meanwhile, the Recording Industry Association
of America continues sending out subpoenas to individual
downloaders as well as colleges and ISPs demanding that they turn over
information on indivdual users.  So far they have sent out over
900, to students, parents of minor miscreants, Internet service providers
and even grandparents. No one can figure out how the lucky 900 were selected,
giving rise to speculation they were chosen at random, in a kind of reverse
lottery.

Partly to address this speculation, the RIAA said on Monday it would
go after "substantial" file
sharers rather than "de minimis users" of music-file-sharing
programs. However, as they have so far not said what "substancial" means
folks are still unable to classify their own risk level. This may or
may not be what the RIAA intends.

"That makes me nervous," said Rob, an avid user of the Grokster
service who declined to give his last name. "If they (RIAA) are
not going to say how much traffic is ‘high,’ I’m not going to say how
much I’ve downloaded."

an enlightening analysis from Wired