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- thewdog, on 06/19/2009, -18/+1668***** the RIAA
- prisoner24601, on 06/19/2009, -13/+1111I honestly thought there was nothing the RIAA could do to make me more enraged with them, but they seem to have no limits whatsoever. I'm so furious I can barely type. And I'm not just going to rage at them online, I just spent 3 minutes looking up the phone numbers of both my senators and my representative, printed out all three and put the note in my car. I can *guarantee* you that I will be calling each of their offices (in fact I think I'll call both their DC office and each local state office for all of them) while I'm in my car tomorrow. I've got a lot of minutes on my cell plan and I'll be in the car for awhile. I'm going to make sure someone in DC hears me on this.
RIAA, you are vile. You disgust me. I'm a reasonable man who DOES NOT pirate songs, movies, books or anything else. My ethical standards are such that I actually do agree in principle that downloading works you have not paid for is morally wrong.
So congratulations RIAA. You've just managed to make a life-long enemy of someone who actually agreed in principle with your position. You've become such jack-booted thugs in your vicious and beyond-all-comprehension-out-of-proportion retribution for minor infractions that I have NO sympathy left for you and feel you simply MUST be brought to heel.
I'm not just talking. I'm going to put real pressure on the people who can put real pressure on you.
Because I've come to hate everything you apparently stand for.
You are randomly crushing little people out of your misplaced rage that the world is changing around you and you simply don't want to adapt. I absolutely PROMISE you my congressman and senator will be hearing from me tomorrow.
I encourage you all to look up your representatives and do likewise:
http://www.senate.gov
http://www.house.gov - mtxprime, on 06/19/2009, -9/+981I'm going to triple my downloads now
- paytongar, on 06/19/2009, -17/+864The sad thing is that those artists aren't worth the 99¢ that they wanted her to pay.
- whodatis, on 06/19/2009, -8/+791WTF was the jury thinking?
- Zombi, on 06/19/2009, -8/+614"Amendment VIII: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
It'd be nice if this actually still meant something. - Solkre, on 06/19/2009, -3/+603I should sell my external hard drive and fix the national debt.
- guiltymind, on 06/19/2009, -2/+514Some guy rapes a 4 year old girl and gets one year in jail but this woman downloads 24 songs and owes almost $2 million? Our justice system is seriously skewed and needs to be reevaluated!
- PukingRobot, on 06/19/2009, -5/+454I'm willing to bet that more than half of the people reading this have far more than 24 illegally downloaded songs on their hard drive at this very moment. Why was this poor woman picked on? It is not about the money; obviously she could never repay $1.9 million in her lifetime. This is about the RIAA making an example out of someone. Well guess what? I'm not afraid of you. Your greed has only enforced my position on piracy. Big business deserves to take a hit. Maybe then you'll know what it feels like to be the little guy.
- bactin, on 06/19/2009, -4/+358this is so messed up
- oldcrows40, on 06/19/2009, -3/+346Damn. That's 24 songs. I have a hard drive with 60 gigs of music. Not even a generous donation from Bill Gates could save me.
- macmcraeart, on 06/19/2009, -5/+343what is file sharing?
- WinstonIV, on 06/19/2009, -1/+318Clearly this woman is a hardened criminal. Would the death penalty not be more appropriate?
- nelsonuwp, on 06/19/2009, -1/+279***** the Jury
- superfirex80, on 06/19/2009, -2/+273Hmmmm, by that standard I owe $729,120,000.
I'm going to double it by this time tomorrow! - alwilson, on 06/19/2009, -5/+275Good luck on collecting the money. There is an old saying that goes something like this: "If I owe you $500 and can't pay, then shame on me. If owe you a million dollars and can't pay, then shame on you!"
And only 24 songs?!? WTF? That leads me to another saying... "If you're going to steal- then steal big!" - kyyv, on 06/19/2009, -0/+260Let's see...
Over 40,000,000 active sharers of music...
Downloading 24 songs each (yeah - more like 1,000)
At $80,000 each...
Means we collectively owe the RIAA . . .
$76,800,000,000,000
Let's call it an even $77 Trillion.
The RIAA will soon own the whole world. - badenglishihave, on 06/19/2009, -0/+256RIAA spokesperson: "(We are) pleased that the jury agreed with the evidence and found the defendant liable."
Seriously, what a bunch of douchebags. - beck5, on 06/19/2009, -11/+262I hope the bitch burns in hell for what she did. We need to clamp down on these single mothers......
- Casual, on 06/19/2009, -2/+252Microsoft should start a new ad campaign... "To fill a Zune, it costs $15/month... an iPod is $30,000. To fill a 32MB Creative Nomad, it will cost you 1.9 million!"
I think the maximum fine for doing such a thing should be to buy the full albums of the music she downloaded... Perhaps even double. How they justified charging 1.9 million dollars for 24 songs is beyond me. - lyonsban, on 06/19/2009, -1/+239From the judge
The Court would be remiss if it did not take this opportunity to implore Congress to amend the Copyright Act to address liability and damages in peer‐ to‐peer network cases such as the one currently before this Court. The Court begins its analysis by recognizing the unique nature of this case. The defendant is an individual, a consumer. She is not a business. She sought no profit from her acts... The Court does not condone Thomas’s actions, but it would be a farce to say that a single mother’s acts of using Kazaa are the equivalent, for example, to the acts of global financial firms illegally infringing on copyrights in order to profit... - avirk86, on 06/19/2009, -3/+222I can haz commission?
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -6/+204Thanks for telling us, we are coming to get you now. All your base are belong to us.
Sincerely,
the RIAA - nzhamstar, on 06/19/2009, -4/+197Dude all your senators and congressmen are already bought and paid for by big business, but good luck.
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -7/+187same, I am going to download everything I can possibly ***** think of whether I listen to it or not, never again will I support the music industry.
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -2/+167The good news is that $80,000/song is 20% off RIAA's regular prices.
- toddhh, on 06/19/2009, -3/+16024 songs is about 2 CDs worth of music. Since when were CDs $950,000 each?
- topcat5, on 06/19/2009, -7/+158Good Lord, and they say North Korean and Iran are oppressive. The have got nothing on life controlled by the corporations.
- Oryan, on 06/19/2009, -7/+153"Thomas-Rasset is married with four children and works for an Indian."
wtf does that last part have to do with anything? - thetruthis, on 06/19/2009, -9/+139I hope she appeals and pays $.99 per song. I wouldn't pay them a dime. I'd move to Europe or something.
- Gguillorn, on 06/19/2009, -0/+129Unless this gets thrown out in the appeal, her entire life is going to be spent in massive debt. For 24 ***** songs. Who the ***** thinks this is a reasonable punishment? You could burn down a goddam music store and get off with a much lighter sentence.
And she's has children. Way to ***** up a family. - inactive, on 06/19/2009, -1/+126Economic crisis solved.
- getoffmybridge, on 06/19/2009, -4/+123"They have the internet on computers now?"
- TobiasParker, on 06/19/2009, -6/+123Note to self: Do not reply to a sarcastic comment with another sarcastic comment, apparently it is too difficult.
- spiritflare1, on 06/19/2009, -3/+113I can feel your anger... it gives you focus, it makes you stronger!
- macmcraeart, on 06/19/2009, -6/+111and an NFL WR gets a few days for killing a person and an NFL QB gets a few years for killing dogs.
- Cheesepuffly, on 06/19/2009, -0/+105Its not the music industry, its the RIAA
- AaronPDX, on 06/19/2009, -1/+102Alright everyone, Jammie Thomas is about to pay 1.9 million for music, we gotta download that music for her. 1.9 Million Songs for Jammie Thomas!
Incidentally, does anyone else sorta feel like the fines are so overblown that it's as if the jury had come back and declared Jammie had to pay eleventy kajillion dollars or something? And who the hell makes up this jury that would unanimously support charging a woman almost 2 million dollars for 24 songs? - sodade, on 06/19/2009, -2/+98Demand that your elected officials REVOKE THEIR CORPORATE CHARTERS - this is now the ONLY way.
- rpgmakr, on 06/19/2009, -6/+98The dumb bitch? So anyone sharing files on P2P networks is a dumb bitch? So EVERY P2P network in the WORLD works thanks to dumb bitches?
God bless dumb bitches. - inactive, on 06/19/2009, -0/+92Yeah, nothing wrong with the music industry. The RIAA however, are a bunch of parasites. Frankly, I'd rather just download the album and mail my $15 directly to the band, but for some reason this is a crime.
- darkstar949, on 06/19/2009, -3/+90That only applies to criminal cases, this was a civil trial.
- jakechan, on 06/19/2009, -1/+87lmfao
best comment ever - waspbr, on 06/19/2009, -2/+87this is ***** up
- SimonWatson, on 06/19/2009, -1/+84If she walked into a shop, punched the guy behind the till and stole 500 CDs she wouldn't be fined $1.9m...
- Chewie67, on 06/19/2009, -1/+84This has really gotten out of hand.
Okay, she broke the law. Whether or not we agree with the law is irrelevant. As long as it's a law, it must be enforced.
That said, $80,000 per song is INSANE. There is no way to justify that level of putative damages. She would need to share that download with another 80,000 people for the record label to incur a loss equal to the damages.
Let's be realistic. You should pay 5x the cost of the item for each infraction. 1x to recover the cost of the item "stolen" and 4x as a penalty to make it hurt.
Download one $0.99 music track, you pay $4.95 (5 x $0.99).
Download twenty four $0.99 music tracks, and you pay $23.76.
On top of that, you incur any legal costs for defending yourself and the loss of time at work. That's penalty enough.
File sharing should not be a revenue model for the record industry. - Reese268, on 06/19/2009, -1/+83That 4 year old girl doesn't have lobbyists and all sorts of money finding it's way into the pockets of politicians. That's the difference.
- runner108, on 06/19/2009, -1/+83It continues on the other side: ".. tribe in Minnesota"
- tagtomlin, on 06/19/2009, -3/+85Legal justice is becoming more and more oxymoronic....
Meanwhile companies can kill people through negligence or destroy the environment with waste and pay a fraction of this in fines. - macmcraeart, on 06/19/2009, -2/+80Its not about the cds. It is all about the caviar, hookers and blow.
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