The jury sounds like children.
They wouldn't be acting like this if it were them on trial.
$80,000 for each song is so ludicrous. An entire CD is much less than that.
So, the musician had to wait a month longer to buy their next vehicle or whatever new toy they were looking forward to frivolously spending their money on. Not hard earned money either.
Will this happen to people who download comics, books, and so on?
Or, is this just for whiny musicians?
Im a musician, and I like to be protected when doing anything where money is inloved, but this judgemant is clearly taking th piss.
I reckon they knew there was no way to pay it, and were probably fine with that, but this was more valuable to them as a bit of fearmongering PR in a time where big losses are being made right now.
so, I know stuff works differently in America than it does in Canada, but how did they possibly come up with the figure of 80 000 a song?
Like, I'm a pretty big file sharer, and I don't think there are any individual songs that I have distributed enough to consider it a loss of more than $100 (and thats being generous) to any record company.
Like, obviously the laws are outdated, but do the courts really just get to invent punishment like that?
lol, like the people rent all their stuff?
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this topic has come up in the comic books forum a bunch of times.
My thoughts are no, they wont.
Most people are idiots when it comes to music. They pick a radio station and just buy whatever it tells them is good. In this way, there is a huge market for music, and people who aren't passionate or don't care about the music are still going to buy it.
So, you can go after these people, and they wont get personally insulted that the music industry is coming after them, and more importantly, the larger music listening community wont boycott the music, because the vast majority of people just don't care (which is befuddling and annoying to say the least).
When it comes to comics, groups like DCP and Minutemen are obviously comprised of people who love comics. The people who download and seed are all also huge comic fans. Just because of the medium, it is highly unlikely that anyone pirating and sharing comics is not passionate about them (they likely also buy comics).
If Marvel or DC (another reason, only 2 major companies, one can't do something that makes the other look good) were to attack comic piracy, they are attacking one of their most loyal fan bases, and literally risk huge internet reaction and loss of sales, as lifelong fans will now feel like the company they supported for 20 years is trying to attack them.
__________________ He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Most of the time this is the case. Hardly anyone is making that sort of money making music anymore and it was hardly true decades ago, hence all these former music greats doing reality TV and the such.
There are a list of exceptions but a lot of people just blow money.
Tupac, for example, was broke because Suge Knight was taking all the money but he never was the type to look it over so he died with less than $10,000 in the bank (but he never was that sort of spender so Knight was just pocketing it all). NWA broke up because Easy E was taking all the money (even are Dr. Dre made diss records about Easy E, Easy was making money from the royalities = super irony). TLC made less than a buck for every album sold and had to split it between the three of them.
__________________ "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." - Thomas Gray
what i dont understand if its ilegal to do file sharing or download free songs videos then how the hell do those sites still stay open. they should get on the asses 1st of the people who keep those sites running. not the downloaders. if theres no site to download them then theres no downloaders.
Torrents are a very good and useful tool, which, admittedly gets used for illegal means, but they shouldn't persecute search engines for looking for them.
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Bardock42 is a whimpering pussy now who lost his flare to debate vigorously and just spouts senseless and thinly veiled puns here and there. You nazi pr*ck. Get your balls back from whoever you sold them to, you fat f*ck. What happened to the manly, chubby German big mouth we once knew, who'd flatten ignorance with a solid argument? Now it's like Andy Dick meets John Candy. You hybrid beefcake. Suck my c*ck
they persecuted torrentspy. before they blocked only usa searchers from using the site now its closed for good. read what it says on there site cause they are getting more and more serious every day about the downloading free crap. www.torrentspy.com
Bardock42 is a whimpering pussy now who lost his flare to debate vigorously and just spouts senseless and thinly veiled puns here and there. You nazi pr*ck. Get your balls back from whoever you sold them to, you fat f*ck. What happened to the manly, chubby German big mouth we once knew, who'd flatten ignorance with a solid argument? Now it's like Andy Dick meets John Candy. You hybrid beefcake. Suck my c*ck
Except the flaw in that argument is that if you're downloading them illegally then you're neither loyal nor supporting the company regardless of how much you like the comics. Quite the opposite in fact.
this reminds me to clean my hard drive and delete things that just waste space.. *cough..... how did they even fight her and know she was downloading songs?
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