Woman fined by RIAA for 1.92 Million Dollars

[Soulzz]

Source: http://wcco.com/local/music.sharing.retrial.2.1049691.html

The jury found that Jammie Thomas-Rasset "committed willful violation" of the copyrights on 24 songs. The jury awarded record companies $1.92 million, or $80,000 per song. It was a retrial for Thomas-Rasset, who was also found in 2007 to have illegally shared music files. The new trial was ordered after the judge in the case decided he had erred in jury instructions.


Guilt or not, those fees are fucking outrageous.

 

[MacN8r]

I just saw this on the news and it is totally freaking ridiculous. The RIAA needs to find another way of dealing with this issue. The big hammer approach is just not working.

 

[roth140]

she should have to pay the price of two albums, end of story.

if there was anything else to it, maybe she should be in more trouble for uploading it to others, like a distributing fine also.

why is downloading a bigger fine than shoplifting? wtf

 

[Zappypants]

Seems to me the RIAA just handed the consumer some ammo. $80k a song? Sooooo....if a 12 song CD sells 500000 copies, see where I'm going with this? 1 cd could potentially cost the RIAA 4 TRILLION DOLLARS? Oversimplification, I know, but c'mon.

 

[monkeky12345]

The RIAA is just trying to scare people.

 

[HeatSurge]

Pretty gay outcome... sucks to be her.

 

[balls2dawall]

I would say can buy the song on itunes up to $1.29 so she would owe a total of $10.32. Yea, I would say she got shafted. But, I would say the penality outweighed its crime. A OUI fines & cost are so much cheeper. New slogin..Don't download instead lets hammered and run shit over.

 

[SnipeAndRecon]

Seems like a solid marketing ploy to me! The RIAA sues people CONSTANTLY. Most people settle the case for an average of $3500. Last I heard was they have done this to around 30,000 people. Do the math and it comes out to around $105,000,000. That is a ridiculous amount of money. Even the real singers are pissed that they do this...

 

[MacN8r]

Sounds like they are the new mafia, and not as honest about their business.

 

[RimGreaper5000]

Let's face it - new music pretty much sucks, and we live in a digital age (thank God for the iPod!) - two facts that the RIAA (and the MPAA now) refuse to wake up to.

Try digitizing your library, and piecemail everything out. Buying a $20 CD that only has 1 song worth listening to is not going to make piracy go away.Tangibility is way overrated these days too, so scrap the CD and you cut out a large cost of your operation, then give the people what they're really looking for - quality music, and the choice to buy only the songs they want.


And besides, most bands/artists that are worth anything will make back the money they "lost" (which isn't true, it's just money the didn't make) on tour anyway.