CALL FOR SPIKING THE RIAA BOTS

As you may know, the RIAA is continuing its policy of treating filesharers like criminals, and have set loose bots on the web trying to find if people have made music available online. This sneaky little behaviour has, as Newton would predict, generated an equal and opposite reaction: across the world, people are adding a script to their websites aimed at slowing the bots down and generating a massive pile of false positives to make the reports useless without the investment of hours and hours of human time to sort them.

The thing is, you could have predicted this happening almost as soon as the idea formed in the head of a music industry executive as he was munching down on his expense account lunch. "We could try that" a sane person would have thought, "but as soon as we do, somebody will write a script that makes the process worthless. Let's not bother." The RIAA, though, either lacks the vision or the understanding of how things work online - once more illustrating why they're doomed to fail: they just don't get it.

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