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Jury Finds Minn. Woman Violated Copyright Law, Orders Her To Pay Record Companies $220K
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- Some of the more recent posts below show how America has gotten to be the lawsuit-infested double-standard-plaqued nightmare it is today. If preachy geniuses like paulmarkham sit on enough juries, pretty soon we''ll be prosecuting "crooks" like jaywalkers and people who smoke in their cars. Get a grip. Making such an example of this woman is a mockery of justice, it is absurd, and anyone who applauds the music industry for this is either a shill, a scheming lowlife lawyer, or a person who has no idea of the changing times; pretty soon I won''t be able to play a Pink Floyd tune on my guitar without infringing on someone''s copyrights. Not that long ago, some idiot media execs tried their best to get the "record" button excluded from that VCR you tape your favorite shows on (just don''t loan that taped episode of "Gray''s Anatomy" to your daughter-in-law, you may get arrested).
This case, and the outcome, is pathetic and sad, and speaks volumes about the direction this country has taken: corporations now own the judicial system, and any poor slob is fair game, and can be taken for everything with no real justification. Since this is obviously the case, I believe the downward spiral of this once-great country is well underway. - Reply to this comment
- If you want to share music with the world, by all means, write your own and feel free to give it away as you please. But "file sharing" what belongs to someone else is theft, as the courts have upheld time and time again, and no matter how much lipstick you want to smear on that pig by calling it "file sharing" rather than theft, it remains nothing but theft.
EVERY one of you people defending "file sharing" would scream bloody murder if it came time for you to receive your paycheck from your job, and your boss just refused to pay you. You''re hypocrites, one and all. - Reply to this comment
- OK... I read the story. Should I logon here and spew out some "facts" and pretend like I know something... even if I can''t spell or put words together in a sentence?!
If I say that the moon weighs 1.25 Trillion pounds - does it make it true? Of course not!
I wish people would stop posting "facts" as if they really knew anything about what they are talking about!
What''s this about some kind of tax on blank cassettes and CDs put on in the 70''s? Artists get 3% of the CD sale? 10 cents each CD? Not stealing? $100 Million Kazaa settlement?!
Strip out all the BS on the internet, and what do you have left?!... not all that much.
Please learn not to believe everything (or almost ANYTHING) you read on the internet. Anyone can say anything...
Did I tell you that Osama is dead?
Pathetic... it really is! - Reply to this comment
- Just reading some of the comments shows how stupid some are. "Biting the hand that feeds" Utter BS, they are biting the hand that steals.
Everytime you download or up load something you don''t own you are breaking the law. Do it with one person and it''s small, do it so much that sales drop by double digits and you are putting someone out of a job. Maybe a shop assistant, wharehouse worker or secretary, not the CEO or recording star. A normal worker loses a job, but what do you care, you''re sharing music and the record industry should stand by and let you do it.
I hope more people are prosecuted like Jammie Thomas. If you don''t want it to be you don''t steal. - Reply to this comment
- i have no sympathy for jammie thomas at all. downloading and uploading music is an infringement of copy right laws. it is far wiser and cheaper to obey the law and simply buy what music you want at the store. music is definitely property of those who creat it.
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- Hahaha!!!! I just downloaded and shared more songs because I want the world to enjoy music
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- Hahaha!!!! I just downloaded and shared more songs because I want the world to enjoy music
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- This is absurd, and an obvious music industry tactic. Why would she have gone to court when she could have simply blown them off like I have done? ?
The truth is that they can''t do anything. They paid her to do the court appearance. This is an old tactic, download what you want!!!!! this is AMERICA!!!! - Reply to this comment
- This is absurd, and an obvious music industry tactic. Why would she have gone to court when she could have simply blown them off like I have done? ?
The truth is that they can''t do anything. They paid her to do the court appearance. This is an old tactic, download what you want!!!!! this is AMERICA!!!! - Reply to this comment
- CD sales are down by double digits. The Recording Industry of America is running scared and biting the hand that feeds it. I say we stop feeding it.
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