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"I believe that if music companies are going to set examples they need to do it to appropriate people and not dead people"
Death is no obstacle to feeling the long arm of the Recording Industry Ass. of America
That was pretty good too.;)
The whole thing is like a bunch of crying babies!
[edited by: lawman at 10:25 pm (utc) on Feb. 5, 2005]
"Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always." - Gandhi
Perhaps the cack-handed lawsuits are an indication that even the RIAA doesn't believe it can maintain the charade for much longer.
Haven't been around WW for a couple of weeks and the very first thread I look at I learn something new.
Hey, no matter what you crunch, there are always outliers.
I'm as anti-RIAA as the next person but this is so OBVIOUS what happened.
What should be alarming is the LIST of songs the RIAA knows the girl transfered.
If it's that easy to get such a list under civil law, how hard is it to get a list of people you've emailed,
people you IM, forums you post to, etc. on any lawyer's whim and post it for public consumption.
Using her Grandmother's credit card, is against the law. When you do things against the law, expect to get caught eventually. No matter whether any of us may, or may not, agree with that law.
Anyway, where do you see me saying anything more than I did? Oh, come on, indeed.
Still the whole thing is very silly and it is no wonder the RIAA is being taken to task for it.
(one of the the real crimes here is letting a 12 year old use a computer without supervision - as an adsense publisher it's one of my worst nightmares)
These scare tactics are not going to stop music sharing. If they pulled their heads in and stopped charging twice what Cassete's used to cost for a product that is cheaper to produce then maybe people would buy the music. At the end of the day the old "you're hurting the artist" line doesn't work as we know that artists get squat out of an album sale. People who want to support their favourite artists would help them far better by sending them $5 in the mail or going to a concert. On a $16 CD the average artists get $1 to share between them.
In 2003 the RIAA sued a twelve year-old girl for copyright infringement. She'd harbored an MP3 file of her favorite TV show on her hard drive. Her working class parents in a housing project in New York were forced to pay two thousand dollars in a settlement.
ridiculous
