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Fined a mere $222,000 for sharing 24, yes that's 24 songs at $9,000 per song.... :eek:
The old Sledgehammer to crack a peanut analogy rings true here.
Obviously advocating piracy is a serious nono here, but this ruling will do more damage to the record companies in the long run.
Apparently in the UK market for every 1 CD bought it is shared 7 times.
I'm not a huge fan of iTunes, but their tagging and labelling system really does work and, imo, is the way forward to protect against piracy. Chasing Joe Public who happens to use Kazaa every once in a while is the same as arresting junkies rather than the dealers.
10-05-2007, 10:45 AM
Woman gets hefty fine in the US for for music sharing in the US. Post #2
Her lawyer, Brian Toder, told the Associated Press Ms Thomas was reduced to tears by the verdict.
"This is a girl that lives from paycheque to paycheque, and now all of a sudden she could get a quarter of her paycheque garnished for the rest of her life," he said.
Well she should have thought about that before breaking the law ffs
10-05-2007, 11:02 AM
Woman gets hefty fine in the US for for music sharing in the US. Post #3
He said no decision had yet been made about what the record companies would do, if anything, to pursue collecting the money from Ms Thomas.
They could simply be making a point to others with this, and not actually get the money off her. A positive result for the record company, it deters others by sending out a strong message. Doubt theyll follow it through and ruin this womans life.
10-05-2007, 11:10 AM
Woman gets hefty fine in the US for for music sharing in the US. Post #5
About 26,000 lawsuits have been filed against alleged file-sharers, but most defendants settle privately by paying a fine amounting to a few thousand dollars.
Her own fault then really...
10-05-2007, 11:12 AM
Woman gets hefty fine in the US for for music sharing in the US. Post #6
I'm not a huge fan of iTunes, but their tagging and labelling system really does work and, imo, is the way forward to protect against piracy. Chasing Joe Public who happens to use Kazaa every once in a while is the same as arresting junkies rather than the dealers.
As a deliberate non i-Pod user was extremely p*ssed to find out the tracks I'd downloaded from i-Tunes didn't function on my Creative player. So my first legal online music transaction was mired and was forced to find a converter to change the format and remove whatever weird protection the track had on it.
BAD CHRISTMAS SPIRIT !
10-05-2007, 11:16 AM
Woman gets hefty fine in the US for for music sharing in the US. Post #7
Think yourself lucky you didn't get a Sony player, it would have forced you to transfer all your tracks into their format.
They are then tagged with which computer they came from (so you can't download onto another computer) and are nigh on impossible to return to original format.
10-05-2007, 11:29 AM
Woman gets hefty fine in the US for for music sharing in the US. Post #8
What I loved was a Sony attorney testifying that if you rip to your computer a CD that you purchased you are a thief.
I'm sure Apple loved it to, considering a huge percentage of people's iPod songs are ones they've ripped from their own CD collection.
The other hi-larious bit of this trial was the RIAA lawyers insisting that the creation times of the files showed they had to have been downloaded off the Internet and could only have been pirated, even though the defendant's lawyer brought in her hard drive and showed just how fast you can rip one of your own CDs.
Now I've got no time for pirates, and every song I have on my computer was purchased (although according to the Sony lawyer I'm still a thief), but the RIAA is going to kill the music industry. Basically, choosing sides between the pirates and the RIAA is like choosing between cancer and AIDS.
10-05-2007, 11:35 AM
Woman gets hefty fine in the US for for music sharing in the US. Post #10
Originally posted by xbilly:
As a deliberate non i-Pod user was extremely p*ssed to find out the tracks I'd downloaded from i-Tunes didn't function on my Creative player.
That's exactly why I didn't get an iPod and went with a Zen: I didn't want to be locked into Apple's system.
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