I mean, check out the last link in your post:
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Her travail started when the record companies used an investigator to go online and search for copyrighted recordings being made available by individuals. The investigator allegedly found hundreds on her computer on April 11, 2004. Months later, there was a phone call from the industry‘s "settlement center," demanding about $7,500 "to keep me from being named in a lawsuit," Santangelo said.
Santangelo and Beckerman were confident they would win a motion to dismiss the case, but Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that the record companies had enough of a case to go forward. She said the issue was whether "an Internet-illiterate parent" could be held liable for her children‘s downloads.
Santangelo says she‘s learned a lot about computers in the past year.
"I read some of these blogs and they say,
Why didn‘t this woman have a firewall?‘ she said. "Well, I have a firewall now. I have a ton of security now."
http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-00116495.htmlAh, that's one aspect of capitalism that needs to be enforced in order for a capitalistic system to survive: Property law. Without such ideas, I could not, for instance, buy up homes in an area and force people who need the homes more than I do to pay me rent. These guys demand "hush money," or they'll kneecap you with a lawsuit. They operate almost like the mafia with the protection rackets.