She got what she deserves, she knew what she was doing was illegal yet she did it anyway. I bet she won't do it again.

Originally posted by jd140
I don't feel bad for her. The music industry has lost massive amounts of money because of illegal downloads.

I think you need to read up on your beloved music industry. Even the artists get shafted by your beloved industry. It's geared to make only the people at the top rich. How do I know this? Well, for one, all the information is readily available and two, I have friends with record contracts and guess what....

Even after 3 albums, once they've paid back their advances for studio time, song writers, producers, engineers, music video's, roadies, merchandising, air play, distribution and so on, they are still forced to live on social security for majority of the year. They are indebted to gig until they drop just to break even.

A record deal is literally like selling your soul to the devil, but people do it because they are uninformed and it prays of the desire of the individual's quest for notoriety and fame.

It's sad.

So what if someone downloads a track or an album for free. Big bloody deal! It cost someone in the upper echelons of the music industry a few puffs of their Cuban cigar... or less!

Get some perspective man!

IRM

Dosn't really matter what you all say.

This is just an act of desperation from a dying music industry. The artists no longer need the distributors.

Not much longer.

When something is rendered obsolete it dies nomatter how much it tries to scare people from killing it. And when something that is obsolete dies, it makes room for something beautyful to be born.

Nobody can stop the NWO from saving our world and ourselves.

Everything will be amazing.

Stop buying there music and movies for just one month and it will bring them to there knees!
Tactics like these are uncalled for. They are not even going after the people who are putting up the sites, and they The RIAA are putting up sites to bait kids to download so they can go after there family's

They also claim that there system is perfect , well there are many programs out that can mask and ghost MAC address. I am not going to post them here as not to show people where they are.
We know that they have the power to go after and stop the sites that are hosting the music and the movies, but they do not. No it is easier to get the government to let them go after people who do not have the money to defend there case! Now I do not condone stealing anyone's product, ever . But I do not condone what the RIAA is doing now to there own customer's.

As they state now if someone hacks your router and downloads off your internet you are the one that has to pay the fine,even though you did not let it happen and a crime was committed to get it done! Now think about that.

It is like saying when you friend comes to your house and his car is stolen from your front yard you are the one that is responsible for the crime. Look this up and see. Call your cable company and ask them about this law . Then you will see. I did and was shocked by what I was told! And I was also told that Congress last year put this law into effect just before the change of presidents .
People really need to check on this so they will know what is up and how they are using this to there advantage .
Also all the RIAA has to do is contact the Cable company and say they want the name and address of this person and all your info will be given to them. And you will be given a notice that you have 24 hours to prove you did not do this and that no one used your equipment to download and or you will be shut down in 24 hours, this is without due process of law. You are also told to delete any software that let you download files on the internet, ie a bit torrent program. And it is stated in the letter that you will have to pay $250.000 dollars for what they said you did or they will prosecute in a court of law, but that is after you have been shut down from the internet and all of your communication's have been taken from you.

And how are you going to prove that you did not do this? There is no way to prove a negative and no matter how much you claim that you did not do anything you will be charged!

Check for your self and see!
There are cases going on here in the mid west where hundred's of cable users are getting these letters from there cable company's.
One lady that got one is 87 years old and is in big trouble, but the system was put in by her grandson who is in Iraq , and was done so he could talk to his Great Grand mother. It has been proven that she does not know more that how to turn on the system to get the email and chat with here Grand Son.
So the ones who think this is a good thing and the RIAA is just trying to stop some real bad people then check and find out for your self, then come back here and post!

What I don't understand is, how is downloading a file from a p2p network different from a friend giving you his CD that he bought? Or him simply playing his CDs while at your house? You may say that at least the friend bought the CD and isn't making "copies," but really the effect is the same: you're getting something you didn't pay for. Anyway, most songs that get on a p2p network had to be bought at one initial stage, and then saved on a computer.

The RIAA and Metallica need to learn that "illegal downloading" actually makes them money. Hundreds of thousands of people are given a chance to sample a CD record, and if it's popular enough, it reaches a viral status. That band then gets more exposure than it normally would, and many people go on to buy the record if they feel they are good enough to support.

Regardless, she shouldn't be charged this much. Shame on the jury for thinking this was a just payment, I hope they have this sort of injustice heaped on them so they learn from it.



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They would never find me if I received one of these letters. I'm close enough to leaving this country on my own terms. A lawsuit like this would be more than enough push to leave.