Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 1) 693
The part you still seem to be missing, though, is that for any of your arguments to hold any value in the real world you would first have to be able to afford to defend yourself against an onslaught of RIAA lawyers.
It is all well and good that you, Apple, your credit card company, etc. could all get together and defend your name, but you forgot to think about the cost of even having to do so in the first place. How much time and money would it take to get Apple, your credit card company, etc. to help out? (Ignoring for the moment the distinct possibility that they _won't_.) How much time and money would it cost to defend yourself in court?
I'm not saying that Apple was wrong to make this compromise with the powers that be. That said, it doesn't make it any more _right_ that the compromise has the kind of gaping holes in it that lead to false accusation and costly defense. By the way, that compromise (and its holes) still meet the RIAA's true goal: to scare the crap out of you.