Woman fined $1.5 million for downloading music
11-06-2010 at 09:00 AM
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Woman fined $1.5 million for downloading music
A little harsh! no?
"The Minnesota mother of four is being penalized for illegally downloading and sharing 24 songs on the peer-to-peer file-sharing network Kazaa in 2006, but how much she owes the record labels has been in question. The jury in her third trial has just ruled that Thomas-Rasset should pay Capitol Records $1.5 million, CNET reports, which breaks down to $62,500 per song. It's a heavy penalty considering the 24 tunes would only cost approximately $24 on iTunes, which was Thomas-Rasset' argument, too. "
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11-06-2010 at 09:02 AM
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Mathematically it makes about as much sense as (pineapple)$$*cucumbe r*.
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11-06-2010 at 09:11 AM
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11-06-2010 at 09:19 AM
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Well...she must really fail at downloading.
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11-06-2010 at 09:40 AM
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Toughness until you`re the one on the receiving end.
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11-06-2010 at 09:42 AM
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She must fail at downloading if she's using Kazaa...
But ya that's a bit harsh.
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11-06-2010 at 10:41 AM
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Um, of course the penalty will be more than the face value of the songs ($1 x 24)!!! If I go and try to steal a $50 pair of jeans and get caught, I could get fined way more than $50. Of course, they might also let me off without a penalty. But then, if I were to keep stealing jeans or whatever from the store, they would definitely fine me, and those fines would increase dramatically if I ended up stealing repeatedly.
If she was willing to pay $24 for those songs, then she should have. Everybody is willing once they get caught. If the punishment is equal to whatever she would have spent on the songs, then there is no incentive to pay for them in the first place--take whatever 'free' stuff you can get until someone decides you should pay for them. The whole point of having these fines is to discourage people from stealing, not make it economically smart for them to continue to do so.
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11-06-2010 at 10:44 AM
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Lol I know somebody who owns millions of songs downloaded off of kazaa, limewire, torrents, etc..
Why are they picking on this poor woman?
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11-06-2010 at 11:10 AM
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Lol I know somebody who owns millions of songs downloaded off of kazaa, limewire, torrents, etc..
Why are they picking on this poor woman?
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That's what I was thinking. It's like a cop going after a 14 year old buying weed when they could be focusing on the drug dealer instead. Maybe they wanted to make an example of this woman, show people that you don't have to be a big time downloader to get caught.
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11-06-2010 at 11:11 AM
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ya this doesnt make sense freakin everyone downloads this stuff why target her
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11-06-2010 at 11:18 AM
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Umm by sensing the comments! It seems like none of you have used limewire or utorrent...Is it true? lol
PS: How did she get caught?
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11-06-2010 at 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by mcmastergcdb
Umm by sensing the comments! It seems like none of you have used limewire or utorrent...Is it true? lol
PS: How did she get caught?
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They can easily find your IP address if you d/l it through torrents. Basically, anyone who does anything illegal through torrents is an idiot.
I don't know how it works for regular d/ling though. Is it just as easy to track someone? |
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11-06-2010 at 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by mcmastergcdb
Umm by sensing the comments! It seems like none of you have used limewire or utorrent...Is it true? lol
PS: How did she get caught?
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I'm not sure of how things work in america, but in canada the government and your isp cannot take a look at anything you download, but anything you upload is fair game. Being on a p2p network it is likely she was uploading music as well, the feds went to her house which they tracked down using her ip address and contacting her isp, took a look at her hard drive and BAM! Massive fine.
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They can easily find your IP address if you d/l it through torrents. Basically, anyone who does anything illegal through torrents is an idiot.
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I read somewhere that they can't just slap a fine on anyone downloading a torrent. Something about entrapment.
I think it should be noted that in Canada, downloading music IS legal, but uploading music is illegal. Uploading and downloading of any other copyrighted material is illegal.
Last edited by REPLEKIA/. : 11-06-2010 at 11:29 AM.
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11-06-2010 at 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by SilentWalker
They can easily find your IP address if you d/l it through torrents. Basically, anyone who does anything illegal through torrents is an idiot.
I don't know how it works for regular d/ling though. Is it just as easy to track someone?
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11-06-2010 at 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by mcmastergcdb
What do you usee?
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The code of conduct for MI doesn't exactly appreciate us discussing the best ways to illegally download things. As I said in my post, downloading music is legal, just as long as your downloading program doesn't require you to upload in turn. Anything aside from music is illegal here in Canada. |
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