Music Pirating Penalties Getting Harsh?
October 6th 2007 01:33 am
If I didn’t already have enough reasons to stop using peer-2-peer downloading programs…this may be another. A Minnesota women must pay over $9k per song that she was sharing to “family and friends”.
A woman in Minnesota must face the music after jury found her liable for sharing illegally downloaded songs.
The Recording Industry of America wins its first copyright protection trial.
giL responded on 06 Oct 2007 at 7:39 am #
They got to be kidding… I read they didn’t even have to prove anyone has ever downloaded these files and that it was enough that the poor lady offered them. Luckily Europe don’t follow the American way on the subject. All DRM people are wrong because they try to do the impossible. Internet is here and information can be shared freely so its just a matter of time before they loose the war. Fear is not going to change any of that.
Ed responded on 07 Oct 2007 at 1:44 pm #
Once she has paid off the fines, she will be a poor lady twice over and then some. It is stupid though. Harsh punishments in the name of Making an Example simply do not work to deter crime, but they do give the judge a boner and the press get a good story.
kdub responded on 07 Oct 2007 at 5:26 pm #
24 songs…when I was in school I new someone who had every DVD and song you can imagine. Now he took “pirating” to the next level. This is almost a waste of time going after someone for 2 CDs worth of songs.