[mythtv-users] A prediction is coming true, faster than I thought

[Kevin Hulse]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:07:27AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> Andrew Close wrote:
> 
> > 
> > i read a headline on Digg the other day that said something about the
> > RIAA spending several thousand dollars to sue a single mom for ~$300.
> > maybe i'm misstating that since i only read the headline.  but it
> > sounded like something silly that an idiotic bureaucracy would
> > pursue...
> 
> The RIAA has a lot of attorneys on staff, that they are paying anyway,
> so their incremental cost to pursue this sort of crap is nothing. Add to
> that the fact that all those attorneys have to justify their jobs...
> 
> You have to be careful of headlines containing phrases like "single
> mom", it's a loaded phrase that has nothing to do with whether the
> individual broke the law or not, it just immediately gains sympathy from
> some readers. Would you have interpreted it differently if the writer
> had said "unwed mother"?

	...actually, that makes the plaintiff seem even more 
pathetic. It brings the image of a welfare mother to mind or
some other sort of person that has problems just eating.

	The "moral" element of unwed could go either way.

	It still comes off as eggregious bullying though.