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Download 24 Songs & Pay $1.9 Million

In case your teenager(s) favorite pastime is downloading the latest hit record(s) to their iPod you may be interested to know that a federal jury has found a Minnesota woman guilty of downloading 24 songs from the internet without paying for the download.

The judgment against her is for $1.9 million or $80,000 per song. This is the first copyright infringement case of its kind to go to trial. The songs were priced at .99 cents each on the net. Unless you have a spare million or two it might be a good idea to advise the kids.
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gregm
3,405 posts
 
Finally! $ 1,9 mill is all that was missing to cover my annual bonus!

{I work for the music industry, I'm a successful top executive -- as evidenced by the spectacular growth in my industry and the profits generated.}
On 2nd thought, maybe $ 0,99 isn't that bad. Expressed in Euro (0,70) it's even better.
hanaleimike
125 posts
 
it'll get overturned. It's a hopeless battle, once music is turned into 0's and 1's how do you copyright that, it's like copyrighting the color blue. The industry should have stayed with vinyl.
my opinionated, uninformed 2 cents.
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
All digital terrorists should be sent to Guantanamo Bay and be forced to a 24/7 diet of Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, and Kenny G.

Now that's punishment.
pcking
49 posts
 
Misinformation. There never has nor ever will be liability for downloading. She was file sharing on Kazaa, of course. It amazes me that an industry believes that it is taking a credible and appropriate course of action by suing their own customers. Idiots.
sidssp
1,077 posts
 
Did she upload or download? I don't think the law allows awarding 80,000 times the actual damages.
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