RIAA president Cary Sherman defends "bombing" software that could cause data loss

This latest anti-piracy campaign follows an October attempt by the RIAA to avoid culpability for damages caused by their "bombing" software (so-called because they generally light a fuse in the affected computer) through a piece of legislation called the Berman Bill.

• The RIAA's president Cary Sherman is lamenting that there's a lack of civility in the debate over sharing the music we love.
• This latest bombing campaign follows the RIAA's attempt in October to get bombing prohibited from limited damages: a daring and unusual move for a bomber.
• The extent of this assault on our valuable culture, when combined with the the labels refusal to release its back catalogs, including works of great artistic merit, is huge.
• Look at what just one Register reader will be losing.
• "My great grandfather was born in 1870," he writes:.
• He purchased one of the earliest tape recorders to make copies of radio broadcasts for his friends in the late 1950s.
• The RIAA is attacking the American mind, and controlling its finest cultural exports oversees.
• Hilary's Rosen involvement in rewriting Iraqi's more liberal copyright law [confirmed] will pave the way for her members to control the distribution of Iraqi culture.
• Before too long, the new malls of Iraq will have hypermarkets bulging with what small parts of homegrown culture the record labels sees fit to offer, plus a few claypit McJob boybands groomed for success, with just perhaps a token Sunni or Kurdish artiste thrown in to demonstrate diversity, only, "I think there's one in the backroom but I have to go and get it", is the reply you'll hear when you go and ask for it in the Baghdad hypermarket, when you ask for the latter."Er, owing to market forces we can't bring you the music you were listening to yesterday."
• The RIAA's assault on our cultural identity - this includes refusing to open the catalogs, as well as bombing or financially crippling computer-using music lovers - is so deep that it's only a surprise that someone hasn't bombed them back at ...