I know that's a real tear-jerker headline, but what else are you going to make of a case like this?
Yahoo!: 24 illegal song downloads cost US woman 220,000 dollars
Don't forget that this happened in the USA, where the appeals process means that this is still not over, not to mention the other 26,000 cases that the RIAA still has on the docket.
And for what? I think the best sound byte today was the ever quotable Joe Wiesenthal from Dealbreaker who said
Yahoo!: 24 illegal song downloads cost US woman 220,000 dollars
"This does send a message, I hope, that downloading and distributing our recordings is not OK," Richard Gabriel, the lead attorney for the music companies, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Don't forget that this happened in the USA, where the appeals process means that this is still not over, not to mention the other 26,000 cases that the RIAA still has on the docket.
And for what? I think the best sound byte today was the ever quotable Joe Wiesenthal from Dealbreaker who said
FInally, the scourge of illegal file sharing will be stamped out for good, now that someone has finally had the book thrown at them. This is all it took... now watch the profits roll in at the big labels.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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I'm not sure I understand the profiling model the RIAA uses. Sure, they want to make examples out of common folk by extorting settlements out of them. But why do they file suit against single mothers, the elderly and the developmentally disabled?
These are the folks who are the "least example worthy" IMHO. They are folks who either had relatives or kids illegally download the best of Fred Durst or Fergie...and lo and behold, the 5 figure lawsuit shows up.
Where is the vetting of the potential plaintifs? The real criminals most likely the children of white upper middle class or well to do parents. They can afford the bandwith, computers and iPods needed to download the gigabytes of drek they do.
Why haven't people who have the money to mount a serious defense ever sued? My guess is they are waiting to get precident set (which they just have), get it affirmed a few times and then move their sites up the income chain.
Why aren't they suing the parents who are investment bankers and criminal litigators?
The RIAA should go big or go home.
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