How copyright enforcers talk to fans

By at 5:51 am Wednesday, Jul 11

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohmann writes, "I came upon an outrageous example of how Web Sheriff (one of many online copyright enforcers) talks to fans. The more I thought about it, the more furious it made me. So I decided to pen a few words about what's gone wrong with copyright law lately."
That's the problem. No artist would talk to a fan like this (and if they did, they should be ashamed), to the person who just bought their forthcoming album. But the copyright enforcement lawyers are on auto-pilot, without any accountability to the artists or to the fans, threatening people, suing people, and all the while insisting that this is just how copyright law works.

Pardon my French, but that's bull****.

Link (Thanks, Fred!)

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