Dang, 80,000 for each download

[E20]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_music_downloading

Can't post the article, but a lady gets prosecuted by a jury for downloading music off the internet for free and she is supposed to pay 80,000 dollars for each download, 24 downloads total.

I feel bad for her, I mean most people are guilty of getting free music off the internet and it sucks to be the one to have to get nailed.

[Trainwreck2100]

the article said they were willing to settle for 3-5000 so they;ll prob just do that

[timvp]

That'd be funny if you posted the article and got sued for 80,000.

[Bender]

24 songs times .99 = $23.76. Round it up to $25 and call it even.

[E20]

That'd be funny if you posted the article and got sued for 80,000.

My spurstalk 'will' will pick up that tab pretty easily.

[BlackSwordsMan]

80,000 is nothing

[stretch]

i thought that people werent getting pursued for downloading anymore. that they were working out something with ISPs

[timvp]

i thought that people werent getting pursued for downloading anymore. that they were working out something with ISPs

That was a retrial of an old case from 2007.

From the article:

The recording industry has said it stopped filing such lawsuits last August and is instead now working with Internet service providers to fight the worst offenders.

And damn, the RIAA curbstomped her. The RIAA is evil but their lawyers aren't to be messed with.

[dirk4mvp]

They probably got her for those Eminem radio hits she got.

[DPG21920]

24 songs times .99 = $23.76. Round it up to $25 and call it even.

Well if you did that no one would learn. Now people are probably scared, but I doubt it truly slows illegal downloading down.

[mFFL03]

wait........say I shoplift 3 CDs from Best Buy........are they going to make me pay 80,000? soooo, how the does this outcome happen?

[Udokafan05]

The music industry has been ripping people off on cds since they started.

[mrsmaalox]

Crime doesn't pay

[EricB]

Don't steal, don't have to worry about getting busted.

That simple.

[mavs>spurs2]

i guess in that case i owe billions

[CubanMustGo]

Don't steal, don't have to worry about getting busted.

That simple.

Punishment needs to fit the crime. I would think someone who has "govt stay away" on his profile would understand that.

That simple.

[Leetonidas]

punishment needs to fit the crime. I would think someone who has "govt stay away" on his profile would understand that.

That simple.

+1

[SpursStalker]

I think it's funny as ...

[stretch]

That was a retrial of an old case from 2007.

From the article:







And damn, the RIAA curbstomped her. The RIAA is evil but their lawyers aren't to be messed with.

ah i see. probably should have read the article

[spurs_2108]

Why don't the people who download 5+ GB of music a day get busted, but only people who download 10-20 songs? Funny thing.

[z0sa]

a JURY found this woman guilty? Nothing, and I mean nothing the most convincing lawyer told me about how it was destroying musicians' careers, etc etc etc would make me vote her guilty knowing the probable punishment.

[Strike]

Why don't the people who download 5+ GB of music a day get busted, but only people who download 10-20 songs? Funny thing.

Always wondered that.

[jman3000]

If I download something from a P2P network and I like the music, I'll buy the CD from the artist. If I don't like it... then I'll delete the .

[angrydude]

There are other ways to make money in the recording industry besides enforcing your government created monopoly everywhere.

Almost none of the money goes to artists anyway. Just the stupid useless industry middlemen.

[sabar]

Might as well slap a $7 billion dollar fine on me.

I could care less what the entertainment industry thinks of me. I paid for the stuff, I'll share it to whomever I want. Maybe book publishers will come after me when I lend out my reading material.