• Minnesota Mom Hit With $1.5 Million Fine for Downloading 24 Songs
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[QUOTE=Nannak;25862987]This is proof of how parasitic and destructive the capitalist system really is. The million dollar fine is just another way of booting workers into poverty as if their disposable objects.[/QUOTE] Why do I want to slap you?
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And stealing a physical CD with 24 songs on it would get you a fine of about $100.
It's ridiculous how smashing the window of a record store, raiding the place of every CD you want, and running off gets a lesser punishment than downloading them online.
Ah DMCA, you're the best waste of government resources ever.
[QUOTE=fenwick;25863241]And stealing a physical CD with 24 songs on it would get you a fine of about $100.[/QUOTE] My friend shoplifted 3 cds and got caught, he got off with a slap on his wrist. But he was underage, so I guess that played a role.
She was supposed to burn me a c.d.
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;25858245]Justice has been finally served. Take her kids away and beat them too[/QUOTE] that coming from your mouth, of all fpers...
[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;25864033]that coming from your mouth, of all fpers...[/QUOTE] What the fuck is sarcasm I don't even know
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;25861614]By the way Johnny, did you get permission from the copyright holder to distribute his works like that? If not that'll be a $60000 fine[/QUOTE] Yes I have the express witten consent of Jack Black and Google Inc. [editline]4th November 2010[/editline] I also got their consents in advance to use their names in this post.
Wow. 62K PER SONG? I'd like to know how this woman would be preventing anything more then 1$ getting into their wallets. 1.5$ Million is insane. That's more then most people will ever even see in their lifetime as it is.
Things like this make me rage so hard
if you share to 2 people, and those 2 people each share to 2 more people, and that repeats n times, you're going to be the cause behind [img]http://www.codecogs.com/gif.latex?%20\sum%20_{i=1}%20^n%20{2^i}[/img] illegal copies of the CD i bet the bastards got their idea from Sissa's chess board or something
what does that weird E mean anyway, I don't know nothing ;(
[QUOTE=Nannak;25863240]I guess people are continuing to be oblivious to reality while at the same time are in shock over this thinking that we live in a so called "Democracy" (while believing that the Government is somehow "misguided") while truly ignorant of how our system really works (We live in a Democracy for wealthy people not us hence why the Government responds to the Industries...why do you think Politicians look like business people?).[/QUOTE] Wait what the fuck is Justin Bieber the new default avatar? [QUOTE=Alyx Zark;25864183]Wow. 62K PER SONG? I'd like to know how this woman would be preventing anything more then 1$ getting into their wallets. 1.5$ Million is insane. That's more then most people will ever even see in their lifetime as it is.[/QUOTE] She also distributed the songs, thread title is misleading
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;25864761]what does that weird E mean anyway, I don't know nothing ;([/QUOTE] It's a sigma (S, not E), it's a compact way of writing summation That particular case would be 2^1 + 2^2 + 2^3 + 2^4 + ... + 2^n
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;25858956]No. But then again it [i]is[/i] the law and according to everyone in the thread about UK Prisoners and voting if you break the law you should have all your civil and human rights totally removed (because after all, you signed the contract just by being born) so the removal of a little bit of capital is nothing compared to that :downs:[/QUOTE] yes because 10 or 12 users out of what, 25,000? show the whole opinion of the forum. oh, by the way, i was defending prisoner rights, so your argument is void.
Someone should blatantly upload and download thousands of songs to see how high the RIAA with fine them, just to make the RIAA look like a bunch of fucking pricks. [editline]5th November 2010[/editline] Okay, say my my music folder has 1086 songs in it. If I was to upload and distribute all of those songs and the RIAA caught me, assuming it's 62,500 per song then my total fine would be $67,875,000. 67 million dollars in a fine, if the RIAA actually sued someone for that much then they'd look like even bigger assholes.
It's a bit naive of the record industry to expect her to pay something like this isn't it?
[QUOTE=kenji;25858432]tbh i think the fines are fricking stupid, all they lost is the price of one song, so the fine should be the price of that song per song downloaded[/QUOTE] No they didn't even lose that because what's to say that she'd have bought the song if she hadn't downloaded it?
sOMEONE IS PUNISHED FOR STEALING!? this is an outrage
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6139991/Misc/stealing.png[/img] I stole 36 copies of lady gaga. I'm gonna set a new world record for fines.
I have over 1,000 songs downloaded on my computer. Whoops.
where do they expect to get with this
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;25858911]= general opinion of FP on the justice system. Oh wait no this news story is about a crime that everyone here commits on a daily basis. [b]Sympathy ahoy![/b][/QUOTE] Every time I see your avatar, I know I'll have to endure a stupid post. I'm adding you to my ignore list.
Can't they just make her pay the price of the songs?
Why the hell are some people even supporting the music industry for doing this: These people are rich fucktards, they have billions in terms of money, shit they don't care about piracy they still make billions either way yet they'll cause retarded lawsuits like this to get even more money, when it's completly outrageous "$1.5 million" fine for 24 songs get the fuck out. Some people are saying it's too set an example, but that is such an totally retarded argurment you can't unjustly and completely outrageously punish one person to show everyone else, so if someone robs from a store we should torture them slowly and painfully and ripoff their balls just to scare everyone else into not stealing from a store (this is analogy is a clear exageration), I'm sorry but that doesn't seem like justice to me. Also that thing about the reason for the cost is due to the cumalation of how her 2 songs would transfer to other users [IMG]http://www.codecogs.com/gif.latex?%20%5Csum%20_%7Bi=1%7D%20%5En%20%7B2%5Ei%7D[/IMG] I'm sorry but couldn't the same be said for stealing a physical copy? Surely enough if you could use that assumption and say a person could easily hand a CD to their friends and they could then transfer that onto their PC or some other device such as their Ipod or something and that would continue to cumalate. So once more that's a retarded argurment with no basis as it is an assumption that it transfered that many times, even though we can likely and easily assume it did, law doesn't work that way you need facts. So anyway my point is she should be charged the same fine as stealing 24 physical copies, period. Plus what the fuck do they care like I said previously they make billions piracy just losses them a few bits of loose change, they're just being dicks.
In america.
[QUOTE=Drax-Quin;25870941]Why the hell are some people even supporting the music industry for doing this: These people are rich fucktards, they have billions in terms of money, shit they don't care about piracy they still make billions either way yet they'll cause retarded lawsuits like this to get even more money, when it's completly outrageous "$1.5 million" fine for 24 songs get the fuck out. Some people are saying it's to set an example, but that is such an unjust argurment you can't unjustly and completely outrageously punish one person to show everyone else, so wait if someone robs from a store we should torture them slowly and painfully and rip of their balls just to scare everyone else into not stealing from a store (this is analogy is a clear exageration), I'm sorry but that doesn't seem like justice to me. Plus what the fuck do they care like I said previously they make billions piracy just losses them a few bits of loose change, they're just being dicks.[/QUOTE] chill
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