US woman ordered to pay 1.92 mln dlrs for illegally downloading 24 songs

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by real_skinner, Jun 19, 2009.

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    Yahoo News:http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090619/ten-entertainment-music-crime-copyright-1dc2b55.html

    wOw that's alot of money. The news didn't say she was selling/distributing those 24 music she downloaded.

    What do you think guys.... :p
     
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  2. Digital_shubhi

    Digital_shubhi Illustrious Member

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  3. kidsko

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    i wonder if she was downloading metallica songs off napster ;)
     
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    Good thing I use iTunes.
     
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    It is an awful lot of money, but when I clicked on the thread - I hadn't realised she was also illegally distributing the tunes. I suppose the amount reflects on how much she will have made from the distibution etc.
     
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    I download all songs in that way..or atleast my friends do that for our common purpose
     
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    wow sucks for that girl
     
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    Traffic2, she would NEVER have made that much money off of distributing that music.

    Everyone who uses P2P software is "distributing illegally" ya know.

    I doubt any of those people will see any of that money. Broke people can't cough that up. I think she'll probably just declare bankruptcy on it.

    Wait...I dunno if she was sued of if that was a criminal sentence handed down. Dunno if you can BK on a criminal sentence.
     
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  10. Rande273

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    I won't be downloading any music after seeing that! :D
     
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    poor women, there are so many people downloading hundreds illegally and no one cares.
    But this is so unreasonable to post such a amount on a simple person....

    They should try to block the sources rather than the people who use these sources.
     
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    She made nothing - nilch, nullo, negatory - from distributing the tunes. The RIAA *spit* just decides an arbitrary amount based on how much damage she might have done in terms of lost sales.

    So, they decided to sue her $70,000 per track. By that logic, shirely, the music industry should be raking in profits in the billions and trillions if their sums are accurate. Which they aren't
     
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    MiniKingdeveloper Banned

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    This is completely rediculous, this makes no sense, makes you think that there really is no justice in the world.
     
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    Yeah good thing I don't listen to music anymore, good thing there is no good music to listen to. >_>
     
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