(This one's guilty!)
Posted on 03/04/2010 7:59:16 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
HMMM? Did someone miss something in this suit? Most of those who have been charged it wasn’t for downloading but for uploading and sharing?
NOT GUILTY! and NOT GUILTY!
No, I don’t think anything was missed. See post 39 and 41.
Ah, but I would make sure to be a member of the MIAA!
OK that is what I thought. Most who have downloaded once or twice will probably never hear a thing about this, it is those who uploaded that the record companies go after.She should’ve accepted the lower amount and just paid it. Copyright violations can go up to more than that for each violation!
Hope they don’t get me for all the highspeed dubbing I did when I was a teenager.
Yes, I'm sure that when the now-existing Copyright Act was passed in 1976, the record labels were salivating at the opportunity to nail people who didn't pay 99 cents to download .mp3s.
That's just not true. The statutory damages in any copyright infringement claim are between $750 and $30,000, unless the infringement was willful or innocent. The record industry doesn't have some special law. They follow the same rules as everyone else.
$750.00 is unconscienable, especailly when we are dealing with a minor, IMO.
How? The law is there for everyone to see. These people made a decision to steal the work of others, now they are paying. In this case, the girl shouldn't have filed an appeal; she would have walked away with a much smaller fine. Not only was she an infringer, she was stupid.
Because it's not a crime, it's a civil suit. There is no rule allowing minors to avoid civil liability.
Less than $1000 fine per theft? Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Comparing a $750 fine to chopping off hands is interesting, though.
Indirectly, the starving recording artists and executives!
Your argument isn't with the courts, it's with Congress, which wrote into the copyright law a provision for automatic damges for copyright infringement-- $200 per work infringed if done innocently, otherwise $750 per work. Those are minimums. It's not up to the courts.
(This one's guilty!)
Did your kids ever tape songs off the radio? The RIAA wants to KNOW!
Anyone who ever photocopied a page out of a book or article for anything other than “educational purposes” committed a copyright theft.
8 years ago the companies didn’t want to sell the songs they held for 0.99 cents a song.
We’ve now seen the 10 billionth download from itunes (Johnny Cash “I Guess Things Happen That Way” to a 13 year old).
Is that the kid who got the $10,000 gift card to itunes? (Ok, maybe that’s an internet myth.)
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