I just submitted an article to Slashdot.org related to a topic I found in the WoW forums yesterday. I don’t know if it’ll be accepted or not, so here is a copy of what I sent in.
Looks like the RIAA is back in action picking on the little guys by sending a cease and desist notice to two sites that hosted player created “music” videos from World of Warcraft and other MMORPGs. Apparently, the RIAA is pissed off that the movies contained the illegal use of copyrighted material. What’s the point of attacking two small sites when much bigger targets like Fileplanet, Google, and XFire all have some of the same videos? As I stated here, I always thought the use of songs in the videos was beneficial, as it a lot of times drew an interest to the song being used.
Crap like this really ticks me off.