Well, I know this is old news. This is about a lady called Jammie Thomas. On October 24, 2007, a US District Court returned a verdict against her in the amount of $222,000, which came to $9,250 per song file, deciding that Thomas willfully violated the copyright of 24 music files consisting of such bands as Aerosmith, Green Day, and Guns N’ Roses on Kazaa, under the user name of tereastarr@KaZaA (I know, this just doesn’t make sense).
This is just another victory for the Recording Industry Association of America (or RIAA). They are fighting against what they call ‘copyright infringement through file-sharing’. They have filed more than 20,000 such cases against file-sharers.
This really amuses me. They also say that you can’t copy songs onto your hard disk even if you have paid for them. It is piracy!
All that the RIAA ever does is go after weak individuals who can’t fight costly court cases, or try to extort money from them (like “pay $3500 and this goes away”). It seems they just don’t have the guts to go after the file-sharing websites (the big fish!).
The RIAA needs to wake up. Times have changed. Why don’t they start offering music downloads at cheaper rates, so that people will at least think about paying for what they download?
A great post on Wired explains how such stupid actions aren’t going to help the cause of the RIAA. They need to change.
And yes, for the record: I have legally bought every song I have on my computer. Don’t believe me? Fine, send the RIAA after me. I don’t fear those retards.
2 responses so far ↓
aniche // January 26, 2008 at 9:29 pm
they don’t just sound like retards. they sound like a whole another breed of retards!
aligw uzcslde // September 11, 2008 at 3:41 pm
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