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(CNN) -- A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs.
No, the music industry is out millions. This one person is paying the price for thousands of other illegal downloads.
Originally posted by UmbraSumus
reply to post by franspeakfree
So the music industry is out of pocket $24 ........ the woman gets fined $ 1.9 million .
That is a FANTASTIC point.
Originally posted by mr-lizard
Also, nobody has 1.9 million, so I think if anything this ludicrous amount of money would encourage people to keep downloading, because after all, they won't have any money to pay it anyway...
Originally posted by franspeakfree
Woman illegally downloads 24 songs, fined to tune of $1.9 million
(CNN) -- A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs.
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Wow $1.9 million, I wonder how much she will pay after the MSM stop jumping on the band wagon?
lets be realistic here she isn't going to be paying that off very quickly now is she. What a crock! I mean come on that poor women, think of all the unecessary stress this poor women has been under because of the music moguels greed.
Please spare a thought for this women and think it could have been you.
Originally posted by mr-lizard
Well it won't bother me, because i make my own music...
Since i don't sell it, i don't care who downloads it. Even if i did want to release it, i still wouldn't care if people downloaded it illegaly. I'd make my money from gigs etc.
Also, nobody has 1.9 million, so I think if anything this ludicrous amount of money would encourage people to keep downloading, because after all, they won't have any money to pay it anyway...
FREE MUSIC...
Originally posted by GuyverUnit I
I love that cop out.
"It is not me who is stealing, it is they who are greedy."
The hypocrisy is that none of these people stop to consider their own greed.
"I want that song AND my money. I can get that song without giving them my money."
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Originally posted by TheComte
No different than borrowing your friend's albums and making some tapes. Only, you've got thousands of friends with thousands of albums. Everything on the internet was purchased legally by someone at some point. It just gets shared around. No way that should be illegal.
Originally posted by noonebutme
Hence why people should stick to the usenet instead of P2P software where your identity is far easier to discover and monitor. I'm not saying newsgroups are 100% secure, but they do allow for an far easier way to mask yourself.
However, I do admit that not many alt.bin* groups supply speed-metal-alternative-polka. Sigh...