Nearly 2 million dollars for 24 songs on your home PC?
INSANITY!!!
It wasn’t 24 songs,
Yep.
Though what if she’d bought the CD’s (physical media) containing the music between the indictment and the jury and presented them as evidence that she had the right to download them?
Also there are many musical pieces that you can’t get elsewhere, granted they are usually remixes, original works, and [game] soundtracks.
Was she involved in re-selling CDs of music, or somehow making money off of this?
What about I-Tunes and similar sites. Did they pay their royalties to the music industry to be legal?
If I recall correctly there were court cases years ago about VCRs and taping movies off of HBO and other such channels. And if I recall correctly, the courts ruled that if you are taping for your own personal use, then it’s legal to do. I thought those court cases made a distinction of your own personal use vs. taping and re-selling movies and TV shows, and making money from it.
Yep, good luck collecting such a judgement. This was probably more symbolic than anything else to take her to court.
...nor excessive fines imposed...
Amendment VIII
Nearly 2 million dollars for 24 songs on your home PC?Wasn't exactly '24'. She had 1,700 songs on her pc. They just sued over 24.
And 1,700 songs isn't exactly 'for personal use'. She was guilty as hell.