This is fucking rediculous...

[Criminal Rock]

Click (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html)

I'm honestly really fucking pissed off after reading this... People do worse things ALL THE TIME and receive way less punishment for it.

Fucking retarded...:mad:

[therealjohng]

Wow

[viking]

Those fines are just insane. How can downloading songs warrant a bigger punishment that say drink driving and endangering lives.

[Criminal Rock]

As a musician, I can't believe other, more popular, artists would let this or even want this to happen to their fans. It's unbelievable...

At least i know the subject to my documentary...

[Gordon]

Scares me.

Job accomplished.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

The people who work for the RIAA strike me as the kind of people who think Chad Kroeger is a good lyricist.

[The Postmaster General]

I remember when this happened - the lady in MN. It's scary shit, it really is. I think with WiFi and everything, it sucks even more. Granted, the law dictates that you have sole responsibility over your network, but some hacker could easily set you up as a P2P tracker/server/whatever with out you ever knowing until you get a handy dandy summons to court.

The fines are utterly absurd. There is no justification for charging someone $500 for throwing a lawn bag full of trash onto the freeway, but nearly $10,000 for downloading music. It just perfectly illustrates where our governments priorities are. I guess when environmentalists' pad politicians' wallets as well as media execs, this type of thing will stop happening.

[someguy]

I remember reading about that girl's case and while I forget the details on it the case looked like she had no chance anyways and her poor defense didn't help.

On the other hand, their claims of copying a CD for personal use being illegal is stupid. There's no way it will hold up legally.

[The Postmaster General]

She actually had some pretty interesting defenses. One of the points the prosecutor made was that because of how quick the songs ended up on her harddrive, it showed they had to be downloaded. So they actually ran a benchtest in the courtroom where they brought in her higherspeed CD/DVD-rom and copied songs onto a harddrive - and she as able to knock that claim out.

Granted it didn't help her in the end, I just thought it was neat that they were actually doing this shit in court.

I swear I'd read somewhere on a CD binder, or something, that you are allowed to make x number of copies for personal use. This might be me mixing up things I'd seen over the years, but am very positive I've seen this on a DVD or CD before. Maybe it was just that particular one. This was aruond 2003 - 2004 tho.

[Criminal Rock]

Now I'm just confused...

clicky (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23434386-details/Free+music+downloads+site+in+chaos+as+record+giant s+pull+out/article.do)

[Dorrito the Imp]

eww... there's an album pictured in that article whose cover is just a meaningless I'm-a-smilin' portrait shot of the artist. The only intelligent comment I can make about any of this is that I hope music piracy hurts that fellow's album sales regardless of the actual quality of the music.

[vesaker]

eww... there's an album pictured in that article whose cover is just a meaningless I'm-a-smilin' portrait shot of the artist. The only intelligent comment I can make about any of this is that I hope music piracy hurts that fellow's album sales regardless of the actual quality of the music.

lol.

As to the first article, thank god i live in Canada where our copyright laws nice and lax.

As to the second article, that Qtrax thing is kind of cool until you try to back up all your free downloaded music and well can't, oh and fuck Apple too.

[Dorrito the Imp]

-thank god i live in Canada

-oh and fuck Apple too.

you are pretty

[fooknasty]

The people who work for the RIAA strike me as the kind of people who think Chad Kroeger is a good lyricist.

Haha, amazing

[Cronos]

Now I'm just confused...

clicky (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23434386-details/Free+music+downloads+site+in+chaos+as+record+giant s+pull+out/article.do)
I've been laughing about that for a while now, hype the shit out of it, the site goes down because its getting hammered, finally release a download and there's fuck all on it.

[vesaker]

you are pretty

uhhh... thnx? ;)