RIAA's $1.92 million victory: more about message, less about money

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RIAA is a dangerous criminal organization

There is only one victim here, that poor woman, they destroyed her life, and for what?
Of course she lied that her kids were the one, that she hadn't known etc. She was trying to get away from initial fine which was also draconian. It's not the point if woman had lied, if she is good or bad person, this punishment is dangerous for all of us.
Copying a CD is NOT the same as stealing CD in a store, or anything material for that matter. They didn't had that money, and I didn't take it from them, stealing is just that, takeing something that someone had. They are assuming that I haven't copied something I would buy it, which is dead wrong. I can make 100000 copies in 10 seconds does artist lose 20$*10000? Of course not only someone extremely stupid like this court can believe that.
For vast majority of artists piracy brings profit. Only very small percentage, the most popular artists which in any case make millions on their albums, are not helped, because you can hear their music on TV and radio.
If it wasn't for mp3 I would never heard 99% of bands that I'm listening now, bands that I bought some CDs (not all ofcourse, CDs are too expensive), I went to their concerts where I also gave them money. I copied the CDs that I bought to my friends, and they also bought some CDs after that, and they also went to their concerts, and gave artists their money for their performance. None of that money would they get if it wasn't for copies. And someone downloaded that same music from us, and then they went to their concerts and gave money to artists directly.

2M dollars, are they out of their minds?! 24 songs? By that token they could convict the whole world except some percentage of US population, because they were brainwashed how moral it is to pay absurd prices for CD/DVDs, and how artists suffer. It makes me puke.
Want another example? Microsoft, the only reason why they are so popular (outside US) is BECAUSE of piracy, that is why they have a monopoly. No one sane here would pay such enormous amounts of money for Win and Office, and no one does except professional firms. I would say that an average computer in the world has more than 10 000$ software "worth" installed on their computers and they want you to think that is's the same as you walked into a bank put a gun at someones face and requested money. US propaganda is really strong, but I can't believe that average citizen is so stupid that he can accept that.
Who pays for Newton law, theory of relativity, or quantum physics that everyone of us uses in everyday life (your computer, cellphone, everything in your life depends on technology made by someones intellectual work, and much more sophisticated intellectual work than some limp bizkit cd or MS windows.)

I have a hard drive of 1TB. I can make 1500 virtual machines just by downloading one copy of windows. I would probably be accused of having offended Microsoft by more than few million dollars + few million on some law bull'hit.
I honestly don't understand how can these lawyers sleep at night. I guess that they convinced their self that moral=law (no matter how you manipulate the law).
It hurts me watching such injustice.

Posted by: enedene   Posted on: 06/19/09  (Edited: 06/19/2009 @ 09:08) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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