Yes he's "Mr. Helper"!
Posted on 11/05/2010 4:23:36 PM PDT by paudio
A federal jury found Wednesday that Jammie Thomas-Rasset, of Brainerd, must pay $62,500 per song — for a total of $1.5 million — for illegally violating copyrights on 24 songs. This was the third jury to consider damages in her case, and each has found that she must pay — though different amounts. And after each time, the single mother of four has said she can't pay. "I can't afford to pay any amount. It's not a matter of won't, it's a matter of 'I can't,'" Thomas-Rasset said Thursday. "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."
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I’m always amazed by what I’m supposed to accept as a conservative. Exhortation fine in this case, but legal reform...where again?
Please describe your version of justice.
Yes he's "Mr. Helper"!
She should wipe her ass with the judgment and mail it to the recording industry and plaintiffs lawyers.
Good point, however...KEEERIST, with the directive that we have of late politically, don't give them any ideas for crying out loud.
JUSTICE_BOUGHT_AND_PAID_FOR_PING!
This is the case of the RIAA “killing a sheep” to keep the other sheep in line. The sad thing is the Federal government is now the henchman for the recording industry. 1.5 million dollars for a fine is the 21st century equivalent to killing someone for steeling a loaf of bread.
Exhortation fine? LOL. That should have been exorbitant fine. (Bad spell check. Go to your room.)
i was a single mom for 5 years after my first husband died. why do you have so much disgust for women like me?
They'd better lock us both up! Back in the 80s, my friends and I routinely taped each other's LPs onto cassettes to play in our car tape decks and Walkmans.
How do I listen to music today? Youtube playlists. I'm not quite sure how different it is from downloading but somehow it's quasi-legal and there isn't the thieving criminal stigma attached. For now, anyways...
You are a total fool. Literally every person in this country breaks at least one law every single day.
If you drive 56 mph in a 55 zone, then you are breaking the law. Perhaps the cops should take your sorry ass to jail?
Still upset over that nasty virus you downloaded from Limewire huh? Or maybe it’s some other nasty virus you have?
Hey she’s a single mom- throw all credibility for responsibility out the window..
Yeah I heard that some times about my daughter-in-law after she was widowed at age 29. I am sure there were some that were downright disappointed when she was never on welfare while raising my two grandchildren.
I would like to meet you- I always am impressed with people that condemn others sight unseen. You know so much about everything. Not.
Wall Street gangsters have reaped ill gotten gains in the billions with no fines, nothing, and we are going to jump on this lady?
No wonder we are so screwed up. Our priorities as a nation are greatly out of whack.
Fact is the medium the song is recorded on ought to not make any difference.
I say that because the RIAA is completely hypocritical on this issue. For years people have made mix tapes, off the radio or other tapes and records, and cd’s, and played them, shared them, and the RIAA never said thing one. And you could get very good recordings that people can still listen to 20 years later. They didn’t care about IP violations then. They only are going to bitch about IP rights when people go cd to cd? They’ve never complained about cd to tape, tape to tape on the principle of IP rights.
RIAA already has precedent of ignoring those that copied mix tapes for others. Only since the recording industry sales have dropped they started to care about it. In the past they didn’t.
Same thing with images... Getty is going around suing website owners for stolen images and demanding thousands of dollars for every offense they can find.
lol
Punishment should be proportional to the crime. She deserves punishment, if she knowingly broke the law, but that fine is far outside the bounds of reality. She will end up not having to pay it, I predict, though she might have to cough up a few thousand.
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