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Single mom can't pay $1.5M song-sharing fine
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| 11.4.10
| Amy Forliti
Posted on 11/05/2010 4:23:36 PM PDT by paudio
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She doesn't want to pay whatsoever, except perhaps $1, the price of downloading a song from iTune.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:23:39 PM PDT
by
paudio
To: paudio
...must pay $62,500 per song for a total of $1.5 million for illegally violating copyrights on 24 songs.ROTF!
Hey, she's a single mom, toss all credibility for responsible living out the window anyway.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:27:06 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: paudio
Zero sympathy for her here.
To: paudio
If only she had heard of Usenet. Or Freenet. Or Tor. Or..or..
To: EGPWS
Maybe Olberman can help her.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:29:06 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: paudio
“Any amount that I pay to them is money that I could use to feed my children. Any amount that I pay to them is money I could use to clothe my kids, and pay my mortgage so my kids have a place to sleep.”
Wasn’t too worded about that when you were downloading all of those tunes.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:30:15 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
(1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
To: Artemis Webb
And I have no sympathy for the RIAA. That organization has been known to follow kids home from school making threats that they were going to take their homes.
I hope they don’t get a dime.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:30:34 PM PDT
by
jerry557
To: EGPWS
Hey, she's a single mom, toss all credibility for responsible living out the window anyway. It's possible that she's a widow or her husband abandoned her. Admittedly, it's not likely, but it's possible.
To: Soothesayer9
Yep, SSL over Usenet and the RIAA can suck it.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:31:28 PM PDT
by
The Iceman Cometh
(What do Snap-On and Obama have in common? They're both tools.)
To: paudio
What part of the Constitution gives the federal government power over contracts, file sharing, and allows punative damages?
Congress has the power to issue copyrights. Is the remedy only federal? And should it be so draconian?
Stealing is wrong. Even/especially if it is intellectual property. But $62K/song? That seems like over-reach.
Does the fine make the complaintant whole?
I'm not happy with the outcome here, on either end. 30 days in jail for the perp, and restitution should suffice.
/johnny
To: paudio
she needs a bailout. where are the Dems?
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:32:37 PM PDT
by
sappy
(criminalibs)
To: paudio
So does she have to be married in order to pay it?
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:33:19 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: paudio
She doesn't want to pay whatsoever, except perhaps $1, the price of downloading a song from iTune. Sorry, but a 1.5 million dollar fine for downloading songs off the internet is ridiculous.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:35:27 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: JRandomFreeper
And if she just shoplifted the CD.....
Crazy world...stay safe !
Hope yer well.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:36:46 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: Drew68
The song people don’t want the money anyway, they just want to scare the bejeebers out of others who might do the same thing.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:38:48 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: paudio
What makes a song worth $62,500?
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:39:02 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
To: jerry557
Awwwww...she broke the law.
She KNEW she was breaking the law.
She didn’t care.
Now she cares.
To: razorback-bert
"What makes a song worth $62,500?" It doesn't matter. If my dog takes a crap and I say that crap is worth $5 million dollars and you steal it...you owe me $5 million.
To: John the Savage
It's possible that she's a widow or her husband abandoned her. Admittedly, it's not likely, but it's possible.That would be "widow" or "abandoned wife" not "single mother".
It's not splitting hairs it's just proper logic.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:43:21 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: razorback-bert
A la Latrell Sprewell, Snoop Dogg has a
family to feed.
Perhaps several.
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posted on
11/05/2010 4:44:32 PM PDT
by
daler
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