Denied Legal Access, Military Personnel Now Targeted By RIAA, MPAA

[admin]

After years of requesting legal access to entertainment and being rejected, US overseas military personnel are now a target of a RIAA, MPAA crackdown supported by the Department of Defense.

A new campaign appears to be in place to target military personnel that uses BitTorrent and other P2P sources to obtain the latest TV shows and movies. Those in the military serving overseas usually do not have access to services like Amazon for buying movies, or Netflix for renting and streaming, and so in order to entertain themselves, have to resort to illegal means to obtain the content.

"We have sent letters to the RIAA and the MPAA repeatedly letting them know that our downloads are a direct representation of their failure to allow us to be good consumers as others in the US can be", a military insider revealed to news website TorrentFreak.

This again raises the issue of whether downloads are illegal if no legal sources are available.

More:

http://torrentfreak.com/us-military-bittorrent-users-targeted-by-mpaariaa-100118/

[doctorhardware]

That is just way out of line. I for one see no problem to allow military to have access to programming or movies that they would be able to otherwise. They have no clue as to how they got their to file law suits or any other freedom that they take for granted.