GetAmnesty.com: MPAA Extortion at its Finest

I'm not in favor of people violating copyright law for personal gain. I don't pirate music or movies and encourage others not to. But I'm also not in favor of the MPAA circumventing the legal system for their personal gain.
Many internet users have received notices from the MPAA or RIAA claiming they have 'evidence' of that user infringing copyright law. Problem is, many that receive that letter have never downloaded a movie or song or even know how to use a P2P network. In this age of wi-fi use and multiple users of the same internet account, IP address identification is simply not personally identifying information. Which brings us to what the MPAA is now doing.

The MPAA and their fellow anti-piracy organizations send out thousands of infringement notices. Only a fraction of these are played out in court, and those that do make it into court are settled at an early stage. So why not circumvent the whole legal system, and gently coerce people to pay for “amnesty”?
The GetAmnesty program is a combination of both enforcement activities and efforts to turn infringers into paying “customers”. It tracks down copyright infringers by using a wide variety of methods. But, instead of sending out the regular infringement notices, they now include links for people to get amnesty. Basically they are asking to pay them an X amount of money, and they promise to drop everything and go away.

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