There is one way out of this... Bankruptcy! Or would that not work?

She could always change her identity and move to Canada...

I'd do the same as the lady in this case.

"Oh, very good. You have access to millions of dollars worth of lawyers. I don't. And you won! Good job there, mate. I'll just go live in my box now. I'll get a few friends to send photos of my box to CNN, though. Do you mind?"

That woman deserves a high five.

Well, I guess it shows they mean business.
Pity it also shows they are massive pricks.
...
Who wants to go pirate some music?

There is a way to avoid this.... don't fileshare and infringe on copyrights. GASP
Genius I know right?

$2million? Do jurors just pull big sounding numbers out their asses for these things?

I'm going to say here what I said the first time I heard about it:

That's bullshit.

Never give a Lawyer a challenge. They WILL drain blood from Turnips if you rile them.

I don't know who to side with on this, but I know that woman shouldn't have thrown that remark in, it will haunt her

Dear RIAA: I have a full 120 gigabyte hardrive filled with MP3's I downloaded off the internet. If you are reading this now, I fucking dare you to come to my house right now and try to put me in court.

You're going to get a face-full of RIAA beater, bitches.

Love,

Adam "buy_teh_haloz" Khafagy.

P.S. For the uninitiated, it's a 2 by 4 plank of wood with a fuckload of nails on each side.

This is fucking ridiculous. The absolute most she should have to pay is the retail value of the songs.

I'll never understand why there are laws against file-sharing/pirating...

I mean, I know why but I'll never understand it.

Did she break the law? Yup.

Is the RIAA being completely unreasonable? Yup.

Xvito:
I'll never understand why there are laws against file-sharing/pirating...

I mean, I know why but I'll never understand it.

You see, in this here Capitalist society, we have these things called businesses. They are headed up by the minions of Cthulu and exist only to make money. They are especially prevalent in media of all types. This is because when you buy a CD/DVD/game, you actually hand over a small part of your soul, which is used for sustenance by the CEOs. The CEOs know that if people simply pirate their music, they'll starve, and so they use their madness-inducing mind control powers to make the jurys and judges in piracy trials to always convict guilty and force huge penalty fines.

Of course, they know that noone would buy their soul draining discs unless it was good, so they strive to actually make what they produce entertaining. Most people on here don't believe in souls anyway, so the problems with buying music don't bother them. If you don't believe in the soul-drain discs and you still pirate, I guess you're just a greedy bastard that doesn't want to pay money, and you should be prosecuted. Catch 22...

Welcome to the Twilight Zone: also known as the jurisdiction of copyright/patent law. It has some strange effects, like the flying whales: just try to ignore them as you attempt to make sense of the penalties issued.

Indigo_Dingo:

scotth266:
Welcome to the Twilight Zone: also known as the jurisdiction of copyright/patent law. It has some strange effects, like the flying whales: just try to ignore them as you try to make sense of the penalties issued.

There wouldn't be any falling bowls of petunias as well would there?

A man can dream... he can dream.
And while he's at it, he should juggle some flaming chainsaws.

And this is why I have stopped buying any music whatsoever.

I go to concerts to support the artists I like as that usually where they get their biggest take of the profits from. CDs and MP3s are just there to feed those greedy pricks that barely do anything beyond leech off the talent of the actual musicians.

So to use a phrase from the wise Goerge Carlin.

Fuck the RIAA, fuck them in their asses with a big rubber dildo, then break it off and beat them to death with the rest of it.

I remember the old days when pirating music meant seizing Warner Bros cargo ships full of Al Jarreau LPs and whisking them off to Brazil for trade on the black market. Good times.

Why the hell did she lie? That's just stupid.

0.o

Thank God I live in Poland, when they never sue single people, only ones that pirate games and sell them for profit on a mass scale.

And even then it's only thrice the retail price. So if she had 1700 songs (...Jesus Christ), that's 1700 x 9 PLN. That would equal only 15,3k PLN. About $5000.

Woot for us.

Ouch... did she download them or distribute them over the web? Because this seems kinda harsh.

Well this lady has just entered *to quote another guy on the thread The Twillight zone*

Chipperz:

Xvito:
I'll never understand why there are laws against file-sharing/pirating...

I mean, I know why but I'll never understand it.

You see, in this here Capitalist society, we have these things called businesses. They are headed up by the minions of Cthulu and exist only to make money. They are especially prevalent in media of all types. This is because when you buy a CD/DVD/game, you actually hand over a small part of your soul, which is used for sustenance by the CEOs. The CEOs know that if people simply pirate their music, they'll starve, and so they use their madness-inducing mind control powers to make the jurys and judges in piracy trials to always convict guilty and force huge penalty fines.

Of course, they know that noone would buy their soul draining discs unless it was good, so they strive to actually make what they produce entertaining. Most people on here don't believe in souls anyway, so the problems with buying music don't bother them. If you don't believe in the soul-drain discs and you still pirate, I guess you're just a greedy bastard that doesn't want to pay money, and you should be prosecuted. Catch 22...

Their ways of distributing media is flawed and needs to adapt. That's it... That's all there is to it.

Someone found a way to distribute media cheaper and more effective and the big corporations don't like that. So what do they do? They complain of course.

Now, so far I'm with them. I mean, of course you complain when everything your company is built upon is falling apart.

What I can't comprehend is why the government listens to these people...

I'm pretty sure that people are going to complain when they lose their jobs at Wal-mart because robots have been developed that can do their job twice as fast, twice as cheap. That doesn't mean that we should ban robots...

"$9250 for each"

Those songs are $.99 on iTunes. That's just ridiculous.

I can see both sides of this argument yes she downloaded and distributed songs illegally but 9250 for each is ridiculous I say charge her twice the retail price for each song and call it a day with a piece in there about if she continues to distribute them then she will be charged 10 cents for each song distributed and approximately 2 dollars for each new song she illegally downloads.

It is hard to say how much to charge someone like this though because not only did she illegally download the music if she used torrents or something along those lines more then likely she redistributed those songs.

Remember, she's being fined for sharing the songs, not downloading them. Presumably the RIAA is not suing her for the $24 dollars they didn't get from her, but the $X they didn't get from all the people who downloaded what she was sharing.

That said - $80,000/song? She had 80,000 peers downloading each one of those songs? At 3MB/song, that's 5.7 terabytes of network traffic - I find that pretty hard to swallow. Even the previous judgement places it at 570 GB of traffic - also doubtful. I'm sure that there is a punitive multiplier in the judgement, but I'd be surprised if she had more than 500 people per song downloading them, placing the total lost revenue at $12,000, which would make the punitive multiplier something like 20x - which seems like total bullshit.

stinkychops:

Cousin_IT:
$2million? Do jurors just pull big sounding numbers out their asses for these things?

Judges do that. Jurers just decide guilty or not guilty.

In a civil case where a jury is called in the jurors set the damage award.

Not that it matters, the law got changed so that the RIAA can just get your internet connection shut off, they put out a press release saying that they weren't going to sue for cash any more.