“The recording industry won a key fight today against illegal music downloading when a federal jury found a Brainerd woman liable for damages for sharing copyrighted music online,” The Associated Press reports.
“Jurors ordered Jammie Thomas, 30, to pay record companies $220,000 – the sum of $9,250 for each of 24 songs for which the companies sought damages,” AP reports.
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This makes me absolutely sick. No way someone should be forced to pay this.
Seriously, what makes the music companies think they are so damn important to be able to ruin people’s lives like this.
I wonder if the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibaway, a sovereign nation, has an extradition agreement with the United States. If not, that’s where she should head to and never leave.
Screw all of the music companies. That’s as disgusting as watching a gang of thugs beating down a young woman in the street to make a ‘public example’ out of them. Get real! People like them ruin free countries.
what the h*ll did she do?
Why is it that the record companies are so evil for doing this? The music IS their product. Your ARE paying for the right to USE not to OWN the material. Unfortunately, some many are failing to recognize that key point and this is the result.
Think of it on a smaller scale, if you did a homework assigment for school, your little friend stole it, turned it in and got an A and u got nothing but an F, u’ll probably go hunting for him. Same thing here.
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$220K is nothing to the RIAA. $220K is financial ruin to the mother. I think the penalty is quite disproportionate and disgusting.
“Think of it on a smaller scale, if you did a homework assigment for school, your little friend stole it, turned it in and got an A and u got nothing but an F, u’ll probably go hunting for him. Same thing here.”
Except in this case you got someone else to do it for you and gave them next to nothing in return, then it got stolen.
This makes me want to steal music again.
Just burn the top 40 everyday and hand it out on the street.
MUSIC IS DEAD
$9250.00 per song, and I bet the artist won’t see a penny of it. The jurors are just as much at fault for allowing such a high penalty. But then, they don’t pick the brightest people for jury duty…… Oh well!
MDN word: “boy” what a crock
The penalty is stiff, but the law is pretty clear and she (presumably knowingly) violated it. They’re entitled to damages, even if they are soulless companies.
Stealing from a company is no less wrong when that company is huge and wealthy.
‘Why is it that the record companies are so evil for doing this?’
‘$220K is nothing to the RIAA. $220K is financial ruin to the mother. I think the penalty is quite disproportionate and disgusting.’
The day the last bit of respect for the music companies died…
Cruel and unusual punishment.
“what makes the music companies think they are so damn important to be able to ruin people’s lives like this.”
What makes you so stupid to think you can steal from billion dollar businesses and not have them come after you for it?
here you go logan
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071004-verdict-is-in.html
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can some one , in a nut shell say what she did??
@hotinplaya
I am in a nut shell, but I’m not sure what she did.
I’d file her bankruptcy for her just to spite the RIAA!
Hey Jammie Thomas!
Set up a website to collect donations.
Don\’t worry, we will cost the RIAA 200 million dollars in lost revenue because of this stupid ruling.
To potential juries: Don\’t be intimidated by the State or Feds into voting guilty!
If i was her i would set up a donation fund. She could easily get 220,000 people to donate 1 dollar. including me.
Was do I put my buck to help her out?
The Dude abides.
Not too hard to find the free link: http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1464264.html
And by the way, 8R, it you’d like to sound credible, it’s “Ojibwe”.
And if I’d like to sound credible, I’d check my spelling too.
someone had a great idea on digg.com
“Also if these record labels are that afraid of file sharing, why not make the problem worst for them by going on the offensive. Just gather the artist from each label into one big catalog then distribute them freely on th PB for free. Further, burn copies and leave them in front of record stores. So if an artist wants to have their album released on a certain day, then just drop 100 burned cd’s in front of the store labeled “for free.” Also leave instructions on each cover how to make additional copies. I guarantee that a couple of these protest will at least get these board members thinking.”
I’ll be doing that I believe.