Obama Takes On The Pirates

The Obama admin has a clear message to you if you've ever downloaded off of Limewire:

"'Piracy is flat, unadulterated theft,' and it should be dealt with accordingly."

Fair enough. But as Ars Technica say:

There's much to be said for this view of "dealing with" piracy—which is why we have long argued that the judgments handed down in P2P lawsuits against twenty-something music fans have been ludicrous. $1.92 million? $675,000? No one walking out of a Walmart with a stack of Richard Marx discs under his arm would be subject to such penalties.

This isn't about theft. This isn't about right and wrong. It's about opportunism, corporate greed and the fact that record companies were too frigging lazy to adapt their business models to make the internet work for them.