how much do you 'owe' the RIAA?

[BrownEyedBtch]

Originally Posted by yoav

itunes? ipods these days have a 120GB capacity. that's $30,000 to fill it up at the itunes store at 99c/song. apple markets ipods to teenagers. most people, teenagers especially don't spend 30 grand on music. Apple and the ipod is a driving force in the pirating movement.

support the artists, go to shows, buy indie music, but the industry needs to change. the RIAA just sued another lady for 2 million dollars, for what? she's filing an appeal by still they'll get a small amount, she'll file for bankruptcy, her credit will be ruined and they'll sue the next old lady.

If native americans didn't get to keep their beeds, the RIAA doesn't get to keep the rights to intellectual property.

I don't have any illegal music on my computer. I have my own uploaded CDs, and movies that I ripped from my own DVDs, so I can watch them when I am out and about and in the mood for a movie. Ipods are not just for downloading other shit. And when I want a song, I pay for the song.

Originally Posted by MaxxedMan

The purpose of the post isn't if downloading music is right, that's a horse that has been sufficiently beaten. The purpose was, is $80,000 a reasonable fine for downloading a $0.99 song.

What you're reading is the article's writer restating the terms of her judgement in a way that makes sense to the reader. I haven't read the case yet, not sure if I will, but she is fined X dollars for the download penalty, then XX for punitive damages. Punitive damages are meant to punish people who do things maliciously, or continue to do things they know are wrong because they don't care. So yes, that is a reasonable fine.

Originally Posted by yoav

i'm in canada out of the riaa's jurisdiction

Obviously.

[BrownEyedBtch]

Originally Posted by yoav

that used to be illegal :O, making a copy was considered a derivative work.. i think now you're allowed one digital copy for backup purposes ONLY!
unless you mean home movies, in which case it's soon to be illegal

If the copy was added to a filesharing network. I used to have albums on vinyl that I would put on my stereo to record it to a cassette, so I could listen to it on my walkman or my car radio. (Shows how old I am.) The difference was in the distribution of the copy, not the copy itself.

Again, a dead horse long beaten.

[Grapist]

Originally Posted by BrownEyedBtch

Again, a dead horse long beaten.

Just like starting up "What would Keith's Justice Do?".

/rolleyes.

[j2x]

Originally Posted by BrownEyedBtch

Again, a dead horse long beaten.

I don't think it's a dead horse so long as the RIAA is suing. It takes a lot of people to rise up and demand change.