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"Young girl fined for having 1,000 downloaded songs..."

Warning to all Kazaa users... a young girl from America's parents were fined $150,000 for each song downloaded by the girl. She issued a statement claiming she was "sorry" and "didn't wish to hurt the artists she loves so much".

In the end the case was settled out of court for a mere $2,000...

Mere? This is crap... I know some artists are dead against downloading music but I also know many bands don't give a s**t and offer downloadable songs from their very own website...

If more bands did that the better I'd say... beat the money obsessed system!

Warning to all Kazaa users... a young girl from America's parents were fined $150,000 for each song downloaded by the girl. She issued a statement claiming she was "sorry" and "didn't wish to hurt the artists she loves so much".

In the end the case was settled out of court for a mere $2,000...

Mere? This is crap... I know some artists are dead against downloading music but I also know many bands don't give a s**t and offer downloadable songs from their very own website...

If more bands did that the better I'd say... beat the money obsessed system!

As it was said in the life forums, its nothing more than scaremongering.

How can they prove that you wasn't just downloading freeware?

I can say that I bought all my songs and that they are all legal (except ones like Absolution).

But they can't prove that I am lying, can they? Without seriously invading my privacy, anyway.

DW wrote:
> But they can't prove that I am lying, can they? Without seriously
> invading my privacy, anyway.

I'm pretty sure they are allowed to examine your PC and check if you downloaded them.

They are in America... it's a special act that watches what people download... for kiddy porn people and so forth...

There is no law like that in America so far...

Jee Media Studies does have it's positive effects.

If you were to pop all those songs onto a CD and delete them from your hard drive, how could they prove you'd broken any laws?

I think this problem is something the record industry deserves quite frankly.
The prices of CDs have been way too high for ages now, so "the man" has fought back. I feel sorry for any musicians who've lost money due to file sharing, but I blame the fat cats in the end (though I suppose Kazaa does give smaller bands a showcase for their tunes, with the chance of people discovering them and buying their album/s).

They should make CDs more attractive to buy. Put more multimedia bits and bobs on the discs with videos, interviews, etc, and bring the bloody prices down so people may be tempted to buy them.

The trouble is for the record, and now the film industry, is that file sharing networks like Kazaa have gone from smallish user bases of hardcore people to massive networks frequented by many normal people. The system has just got too big, and much easier to use.
How the future will be is anyone's guess.

Totoro wrote:
> They should make CDs more attractive to buy. Put more multimedia bits
> and bobs on the discs with videos, interviews, etc, and bring the
> bloody prices down so people may be tempted to buy them.


Thing about that is people will just copy these from the disc too.

I don't no how they can sue anyone for breaking copyright laws because of sharing music files. It is actually against copyright to lend a cd or tape(if anyone is still using them), but the music industry just ignores this because it happens so much. What is the difference between lending someone a cd or tape and sharing a backed up version.

In my view, it's a load of Barensheiße. You can't stop people downloading MP3s, and when a site is closed down, it opens up about a week later. When will the music industry realise that they can't win?

Plus, there are still loads of idiots who'd rather spend £10- £15 on a new CD, when a blank CD and a few minutes worth of phone bills won't cost more than 50p.