• Woman Hit With $1.92 Million Fine for Sharing 24 Songs on Kazaa
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I bet shes throwing her son's computer at him with it on fire right now.
I say we burn down the RIAA HQ and execute the CEO on national television!
brb, going to wal-mart to steal two CDs, get caught, and see if my fines total to about 2 mil
[QUOTE=MS-DOS4;15645077]I say we burn down the RIAA HQ and execute the CEO on national television![/QUOTE] uhhh... k
Why does $100 duplicated equal $1.92 million? The RIAA can go piss on themselves, they are twenty times worse than EA.
In one way, I think it's far to many money. I mean it's just 24 songs. On the other hand, I think she should have thought about what she did, before she starting sharing them.
[QUOTE=henrikb4;15645139]In one way, I think it's far to many money. I mean it's just 24 songs. On the other hand, I think she should have thought about what she did, before she starting sharing them.[/QUOTE] I doubt she really knew what she was doing.
God damn, what a bunch of thugs. Might as well just go jack the CD from a store or something.
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;15645057]the fine [I]is[/I] the warning, if she does it again they'll shoot her[/QUOTE] Damn, these RIAA people take music seriously don't they. :v:
[QUOTE=henrikb4;15645139]In one way, I think it's far to many money. I mean it's just 24 songs. On the other hand, I think she should have thought about what she did, before she starting sharing them.[/QUOTE] You know she has a teenager that they totally excused in that court case right?
Nah, of course not.
That's exactly why you don't use Kazaa. Kazaa is also so 1990's.
She wouldn't have had that if she didn't start pretending shit absolutely contrary to her previous sayings.
Fuck being financially screwed for life, go kill the cunts that sued and live a life of security in prison. Maybe they'd re-think their punishments.
Single song's can make £150,000 and more, you see these "Most selling Dance songs of all time" and shit like that on the music channels all the time
[quote=8th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States]Excessive bail shall not be required, [b][i]nor excessive fines imposed,[/b][/i] nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.[/quote] I think $80,000 for a couple megabytes worth of data constitutes an excessive fine for even the strictest of reckonings.
This is fucked up beyond belief. A single mother who most likely makes minimum wage has to pay all that? That isn't dishing out justice, that is just being over the top. I hardly doubt that the music she even downloaded cost them that much money. Now her life is ruined because of this, and she will forever be in debt. I hate fucking company's like this. If anything i would of made her pay the court fees and pay for the whole album that she downloaded from. That wouldn't even be near 80k, let alone the 2 million dollars. Company's like this make me rage so much. Bastards bitch and moan about people stealing music, but then they do this. They're practically robbing this woman.
[QUOTE=MS-DOS4;15645077]I say we burn down the RIAA HQ and execute the CEO on national television![/QUOTE] So much for the moral highground.
[QUOTE=lmaoboat;15646152]So much for the moral highground.[/QUOTE] I'd kill every one of the people behind RIAA. Then I'd go to a TV station and brag about it on live TV.
[QUOTE=Turbis;15646163]I'd kill every one of the people behind RIAA. Then I'd go to a TV station and brag about it on live TV.[/QUOTE] Because several hundred wrongs make a right.
[QUOTE=lmaoboat;15646188]Because several hundred wrongs make a right.[/QUOTE] Yes.
[QUOTE=MS-DOS4;15645077]I say we burn down the RIAA HQ and execute the CEO on national television![/QUOTE] Calling Osama...
Fucking money hungry RIAA. Why'd the World Trade Center have to be attacked? Why couldn't they just fly a plane into the RIAA HQ?
KaazaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAaaaa. Damnit.
[QUOTE=Bredirish123;15646329]Fucking money hungry RIAA. Why'd the World Trade Center have to be attacked? Why couldn't they just fly a plane into the RIAA HQ?[/QUOTE] Because arsing with the financial market is more effective at fucking shit up.
Looks like She's got to sell her kids for medical experiments if she's a single mother.
[QUOTE=Turbis;15646203]Yes.[/QUOTE] So if downloading music gets an excessive fine, excessive fines gets mass murder, I suppose your punishment would be something along the line of being eaten inside out by swarms of insects thousands of times over.
You guys aren't thinking this through. She uploaded 24 songs. Now, the RIAA could count that per one song downloaded, they would have lost $15, or whatever it costs to buy the CD, because to get that song legit, they would have to buy the CD. (Not counting ITunes, because most people don't own an Ipod) Moving on, you have to see how many times each one of those songs was downloaded. Now 24*15 is already $360, so potentially, if each one of those songs was downloaded [B]a lot[/B] of times, they could have some mathematical proof on how she cost them that much. However, I do not agree with this punishment, I think it's total shit, I'm just trying to explain what probably happened. Also keep in mind they were not trying to be fair. They are hoping this story gets to the news so more people will be scared of pirating music.
[QUOTE=MS-DOS4;15645077]I say we burn down the RIAA HQ and execute the CEO on national television![/QUOTE]One of these days, the RIAA is going to pick the wrong person to sue for $1mil+ for downloading 1 song. Then there will be some serious buisness. [QUOTE=Angus;15645085]brb, going to wal-mart to steal two CDs, get caught, and see if my fines total to about 2 mil[/QUOTE]It's ironic because the RIAA/MPAA regularly compare downloading movies/music online to walking into a store and shoplifting the same movies/music on a physical medium (hence the whole "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR?" ad that airs (unskippable, of course) on every DVD. [QUOTE=FunnyBunny;15646459]You guys aren't thinking this through. She uploaded 24 songs. Now, the RIAA could count that per one song downloaded, they would have lost $15, or whatever it costs to buy the CD, because to get that song legit, they would have to buy the CD. (Not counting ITunes, because most people don't own an Ipod) Moving on, you have to see how many times each one of those songs was downloaded. Now 24*15 is already $360, so potentially, if each one of those songs was downloaded [B]a lot[/B] of times, they could have some mathematical proof on how she cost them that much. However, I do not agree with this punishment, I think it's total shit, I'm just trying to explain what probably happened. Also keep in mind they were not trying to be fair. They are hoping this story gets to the news so more people will be scared of pirating music.[/QUOTE]True, sort of. The amount of times a MP3 has been downloaded is, under United States copyright law, another count of "unauthorized distribution", which is how they sue people for 1,000+ times the value of the media in question. However, the RIAA aren't a police force, and they can't just execute a search warrant on the computer in question and check how many times a certain MP3 was downloaded, so they make up a "magic number", based on how much money they feel like extorting from their victims.
Keep in mind this is an uploader Uploaders get caught most of the time, not the downloaders Downloaders get caught with a fine and have to pay back what they downloaded In the worst case, like fotoshoop, that can mean up to a few thousand dollars Howe'er if uploaders get caught that is a different story Except direct downloading sites. Direct downloading sites, even though they get rid of pirated content, they don't actually do anything because most of the time pirating brings the popularity to the direct downloading site.
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