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(Wired) Followup Jury finds for the recording industry in the first RIAA case to go to trial. Awards plantiffs $222,000. Suck it downloaders   (blog.wired.com) divider line 614
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IWood 2007-10-04 05:49:01 PM  
BASTARDS.

 
spleef420 2007-10-04 05:49:37 PM  
Journey, Green Day, AFI, Aerosmith

c'mon RIAA, hasn't she suffered enough?

 
TheCid 2007-10-04 05:49:46 PM  
Fark the RIAA.

 
smooshie [TotalFark] 2007-10-04 05:49:57 PM  
Stupid jury :(

 
spazzm 2007-10-04 05:49:57 PM  
BASTARDS.

This.

 
epoc_tnac 2007-10-04 05:49:59 PM  
Time to start making your own music:

This is my effort. (new window)

 
amrust 2007-10-04 05:50:02 PM  
Approves

web.vrn.ru

 
super_matt 2007-10-04 05:50:14 PM  
FAIL

 
kidtruth 2007-10-04 05:50:20 PM  
BOOOOooo

Check out www.radiohead.com; this band is actually doing something to slap the recording industry in the face.

They're releasing their new album on October 10th, online only - and you choose how much you want to pay for it. Ya'rly, you name your own price.

 
vsavatar [recently expired TotalFark] 2007-10-04 05:50:23 PM  
She'll declare bankruptcy and they'll never see a penny. They spent all that money and will probably get nothing.

 
I Said [TotalFark] 2007-10-04 05:50:42 PM  
I think she got find for bad taste.

FTFA: Journey, Green Day, AFI, Aerosmith

 
rjShadow [TotalFark] 2007-10-04 05:50:56 PM  
what a sad day.

RIAA needs to come up with a way for people to download music supported by shiatloads of advertising. It has to be possible - broadcast TV just figured it out.

Keep in mind that the artists will never see a dime of the $222,000.

 
stryker4526 2007-10-04 05:51:08 PM  
Seriously, what the fark? The sentence SHOULD have been that the RIAA has to pay all legal costs to everyone (retroactively applicable) and be disbanded.

 
I Said [TotalFark] 2007-10-04 05:51:26 PM  
I Said: I think she got find for bad taste.

FTFA: Journey, Green Day, AFI, Aerosmith


find = fined

I hate me

 
The_Terminator 2007-10-04 05:51:39 PM  
What a shiatload of fark.

How much crack did this jury smoke prior to the hearing?

 
atomicmask 2007-10-04 05:51:49 PM  
So one person has to pay back 222,000 dollars to the record industry? I guess ruining someone for life is ok just as long as snooty crap talent gets their 12 dollars off the records sold.

 
One F Jef 2007-10-04 05:51:55 PM  
weak

 
BradBrening 2007-10-04 05:52:01 PM  
Well, this'll surely embolden the RIAA.

 
Rev.K [TotalFark] 2007-10-04 05:52:12 PM  
Lars Ulrich is the submitter.

 
stryker4526 2007-10-04 05:52:19 PM  
Well, they should either be disbanded OR be biatch-slapped back to their original purpose: quality control, and be stripped of all the idiotic powers they've assumed regarding copyrights, etc.

 
birdgirl_tb 2007-10-04 05:52:29 PM  
rjShadow: Keep in mind that the artists will never see a dime of the $222,000.

Exactly. Its really sad. TV isn't the only place that figured it out; there is the radio as well. Costs nothing to tape a song off the radio, downloading on the internet should be the same, supported by advertising.

 
Kipoftechbits 2007-10-04 05:52:52 PM  
Yeah it was pretty much curtains for her from the get go. Her case was miserably weak and the RIAA had her over a barrel with her computer in hand.

 
3xodus 2007-10-04 05:53:01 PM  
How the hell are you going to fine the woman roughly $9,000 a song, when she has like.. one CDs worth of music?

$200 a song, max.

 
Lesbian-Jesus 2007-10-04 05:53:07 PM  
Makes me glad to be Canadian

 
Terron 2007-10-04 05:53:34 PM  
Thank goodness for common sense

oh wait, none here

 
Rychan 2007-10-04 05:53:57 PM  
Wow, that's so weak. Fine someone $200,000 dollars because of an IP address? Because of 24 songs? This is just ridiculous.

 
vdantev 2007-10-04 05:54:15 PM  
catch me if you can RIAA.

 
monsignorguru 2007-10-04 05:54:27 PM  
This verdict and the whole tracking down of downloaders is meant to get the rest of us to stop the free file sharing.

I don't think they give a rat's a$$ about the money verdict, just the fear created.

/probably will work
// welcome to Bush's Amerika
///suck it Lars

 
stryker4526 2007-10-04 05:54:42 PM  
3xodus: How the hell are you going to fine the woman roughly $9,000 a song, when she has like.. one CDs worth of music?

$200 a song, max.


Because the RIAA is a greedy f*cking association of corrupt bastards, and a superb example of what happens when your government policies are bought and paid for by corporations and capitalism is allowed to run rampant.

 
Schmapdi 2007-10-04 05:54:48 PM  
This wasn't a Californian jury was it?

They don't think so good.

 
Postal Penguin 2007-10-04 05:54:48 PM  
How can they award them more than the cost of the song? They aren't suffering emotional damage when a song is downloaded. If thats what they cost then every sale on iTunes costs them $9249.

 
amazing_live_seamonkeys [recently expired TotalFark] 2007-10-04 05:54:59 PM  
OJ Laughs

 
noobcake 2007-10-04 05:55:25 PM  
Damn.

 
Rev.K [TotalFark] 2007-10-04 05:55:25 PM  
FTA:

the RIAA's litigation war on internet piracy has neither dented illegal, peer-to-peer file sharing or put much fear in the hearts of music swappers.

Of course it hasn't. They cannot stop it, period. You might as well try and stop Niagra Falls with a maxipad.

 
Mercutio74 2007-10-04 05:55:27 PM  
fark me...

So what does the award actually mean? That she personally cost the RIAA $222,000? And if that's for sharing 24 songs, does it scale upwards in a direct correlation? If so, does that mean there's trillions and trillions of dollars a year that aren't going to the RIAA?

This is kind of like getting a parking ticket for $185,000... it just doesn't make sense.

 
Postal Penguin 2007-10-04 05:55:32 PM  
Schmapdi: This wasn't a Californian jury was it?

They don't think so good.


Simulpost ftw!

 
dj_bigbird [TotalFark] 2007-10-04 05:55:47 PM  
Um, she did it.

She committed piracy. Piracy is theft. No sympathy for her.

That being said, the RIAA does need to get off its ass and get with the 21st Century.

 
krupintupple 2007-10-04 05:56:38 PM  
something bothers me:

"...the industry did not have to demonstrate that the defendant's computer had a file-sharing program installed at the time that they inspected her hard drive. And the RIAA did not have to show that the defendant was at the keyboard when RIAA investigators accessed Thomas' share folder...the RIAA did not have to prove that others downloaded the files."

i'm not some kinda law-talking-guy, but wouldn't these be required in order to get a successful conviction? i mean, these seem kinda important. what if it turns out her kid did it and is scared silent because of the fear-mongering the RIAA has done?

 
peewinkle 2007-10-04 05:56:41 PM  
www.libellules.ch

 
spleef420 2007-10-04 05:56:51 PM  
the number of peer-to-peer users unlawfully trading goods has nearly tripled since 2003, when the RIAA began legal onslaught targeting individuals.

"gee, I wish I didn't have to pay for all the music I want...wait, what's this 'Napster' thing the RIAA is suing over? WOW! Everything I ever wanted all in one place...and it's all FREE!"

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

 
ha-ha-guy 2007-10-04 05:57:18 PM  
You know pretty much all new songs are on YouTube these days. A clever little programmer can easily capture all data coming across the soundcard and make a MP3 out of it.

I'd like to give a shoutout to the RIAA for putting their songs on YouTube for me, love ya guys.

/Put up some more AC/DC would ya guys?

 
Nanan 2007-10-04 05:57:39 PM  
The jury should be hung, shot and quartered.

 
inebriated monk 2007-10-04 05:58:03 PM  
Just leave the oink alone.
/For that much money she could have Journey play her kids' b-day parties.

 
flashfry 2007-10-04 05:58:07 PM  
This should stop many people from pirating music. Or at least think twice about sharing out.

Seriously.

 
stryker4526 2007-10-04 05:58:15 PM  
dj_bigbird: Um, she did it.

She committed piracy. Piracy is theft. No sympathy for her.

That being said, the RIAA does need to get off its ass and get with the 21st Century.


You're funny.

Theft involves depriving someone of property. Making a copy of something does not deprive anyone of property. If I burn a copy of one of my CDs for you, does that mean I no longer have the original CD? No, that's not what it means? Thought not.

 
ha-ha-guy 2007-10-04 05:58:16 PM  
Oh and here y'all go if you want a link:

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-rip-audio-from-youtube-videos.html

 
Prometheus_Unbound 2007-10-04 05:58:35 PM  
You're next...
img234.imageshack.us

 
p0nk 2007-10-04 05:58:55 PM  
24 songs?! jesus, mary, and allah akbar.

/31,000+ and counting. RIAA, suckit.

 
Mercutio74 2007-10-04 05:59:18 PM  
dj_bigbird: She committed piracy. Piracy is theft. No sympathy for her.

I guess you work for the RIAA?

Let me ask you something... if you had a car and I managed to take measurements of your car, etc... and constructed a duplicate of your car for my own purposes, have I stolen anything?

I think it's even a stretch to call it copyright infringement as you're not even using the copies of the songs to make money.

Give her a fine... whatever... but bankrupting someone over sharing 24 songs is way beyond justice.

 
Rev.K [TotalFark] 2007-10-04 05:59:28 PM  
dj_bigbird: She committed piracy. Piracy is theft. No sympathy for her.


Piracy is not theft. At least, not theft in the traditional sense.

Do you honestly think that charging $9,000 per downloaded song is fair? Now who's stealing from who?

 
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