Please read and answer questions? 10 points for best answer?

[burt]

Even as the Recording Industry Association of America continued to initiate new lawsuits against alleged music file sharers, adding to the 20,000 total of thr past three years, the group signaled a change in policy that seeks to byass the legal system. A leaked memo from th RIAA to internet services providers indicates the body wants the ISPs to make settlement offers to their customers. The companies are to tell customers they can avoid an RIAA lawsuit by going to a website being set up, P2lawsuits.com, and paying discounted settlement fees.Providers are also directed not to discuss the validity of the file sharing claims leveled at these customers. The pogram allows the RIAA to avoid the hassle and expense of having to establish guilt in a court of law. Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, comments, "Does the RIAA readily tell customers that parents are generally not liable for infringrments commited by their kids or that bankruptcy may be a last ditch have occasionally sued the wrong people?" Doubtful.




Question 1. Does this have social, political, educational, or artistic value?


Question 2. Is the article consistent with today's societal norms?

[rushford79]

It has Economical Value. They make money off it. Just like most other Regulations.

[maddox]

Yes: All class action related legal renderings have social/political ramifications aka "value".



and yes: Crooked institutions trying to bypass the law is very consistent with today's norm.