The music pirating case

[WearyAtlas]

The first music pirating case was up here in my area and I just heard that the woman was fined $222,000 for pirating 24 copyrighted sound recordings.

[KOHTOPA]

Originally Posted by WearyAtlas

The first music pirating case was up here in my area and I just heard that the woman was fined $222,000 for pirating 24 copyrighted sound recordings.

А можно с этого места поподробнее? Что значит pirating? Она что -
продавала то что накопировала? Если ей вчинили иск на $222К за
24 диска, то меня наверно расстреляют на месте

По-моему в Германии пару недель назад подали на рассмотрение закон
запрещающий вообще любое копирование CD и DVD.

[veey]

Я тоже сегодня в газете это читал. 222К за 24 песни. афигеть
Она их через интернет share.

[Polaris]

The verdict of the country's first ever file-sharing case is in and it doesn't look good.

The courtroom in Duluth, Minnesota was filled with both cheers and outrage this afternoon, and unfortunately for us members of the file-sharing community we won't be breaking out the bubbly anytime soon it appears.

For those of you that have been following the first ever file-sharing case to reach a jury trial in Virgin v. Thomas, the verdict's in and Jammie Thomas has been found guilty of copyright infringement for the illegal file-sharing of music on KaZaA.

The Jury ordered Thomas to pay some $9,250 for each of the 24 illegally shared songs that were the subject of the lawsuit, which amounts to some $222,000 in total penalties.

The verdict is a big setback for the file-sharing community and a huge win for the RIAA who will probably be more emboldened than ever to go after people who illegally share music on P2P and file-sharing networks.

The case did set some stunning precedents, however in that the RIAA didn't have to prove that a file-sharing program existed on her PC at the time they inspected her HDD, or that she was the actual person who shared the music.

Also, the RIAA wasn't forced to prove that anybody actually downloaded the songs from her, only that she even shared them at all.

Though interestingly enough the win may actually be a hollow one because piracy is more rampant than ever and clearly their legally strategy is having no effect in trying to bring it to a halt. It was even revealed yesterday that they've sued more than 26,000 people so far and essentially lost money on the cost of litigation versus settlement amount recouped. When you factor in all the people they've pissed off and thus business lost compared to the so-called deterrent factor they seek to instill, their strategy has been total blunder.