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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!

maddmun wrote:
> That's only $2 a CD!!
>
> She should have got the full $150,000,000
>

$150,000 actually. Still rediculous to claim that they did the industry $150,000 worth of damage by downloding a few songs that wouldn't have been bought anyway.

150,000 per song.

For 1000 songs, that's 150,000,000.

So, HAH.

maddmun wrote:
> That's only $2 a CD!!
>
> She should have got the full $150,000,000

There's no way a thousand Christina Agularia/Britney/S-ClubX/etc songs are worth $150,000,000. So you're wrong. She shouldn't have got the full $150,000,000. :P

I hear she's making quite a lot of money off it actually, I know the $2,000 has been covered by donations from a p2p community (or something) and a lot more donations have been flooding her way.

Can't find a link to that, but here's one on something related http://zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/09112003i.php
Nice to see not all the artists agree with the RIAA gestapo tactics, as someone put it.

Remember when Napster was shut down 'stopping p2p for good', several programs popped up in it's place, or what about when that protection was put on CDs that stopped PCs playing them, shame it could be destroyed with a pen.

No way would i buy albums just to listen to certain songs most of them have CRAP tracks on them.

Snipe® wrote:
> No way would i buy albums just to listen to certain songs most of
> them have CRAP tracks on them.

That really sums up the problem with the music industry. The CRAPness.

Yep there's always one track or more that is crap in any album.

God bless MP3's and File Sharing, may it be for MP3's, Porn or any other type of incest you like.

Am I the only one who thought that made sense up until the last bit?

Memorandum! wrote:
> Der Nazi wrote:
> I only buy
> albums I can't find on the net.
>
> Aren't you a loyal and supportive fan?

Of Texas, Metallica, Nirvana, Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie and The Offspring. It's just the fact it'll cost about 34p to compile a CD at home. (Cost of blank CD and phone bill)