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Friday, November 5, 2010

RIAA is fucking ridiculous

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A Minnesota mother was ordered by a jury to pay $1.5 million to the Recording Industry Association of America for illegally downloading and sharing 24 songs. Jammie Thomas-Rasset was ordered to pay the sum, $62,500 for each illegally downloaded song, by a Minneapolis court after two previous convictions were thrown out on appeal, the New York Daily News reported Friday. Thomas-Rasset was ordered to pay $222,000 following a 2007 trial but the decision was declared a mistrial upon appeal. She was next ordered to pay $1.92 million in a June 2009 trial, but the judge lowered the amount to $54,000. The RIAA offered to settle for $25 million, but Thomas-Rasset instead appealed the decision and ended up on trial a third time.
Experts said Thomas-Rasset, who makes less than $40,000 per year, is likely to file another appeal, claiming the decision was unconstitutional.

Can you fucking believe it !? I mean,  $62 500 per downloaded song ? seriously, you're telling me that an artist that gets his 12 track album downloaded looses 3/4 of a fricking million dollars ?! This is getting out of hand and has to stop. The buisness model of the big record comppany no longer suits the market. THEY ARE GOING TO DISAPEAR. The question is are we going to let them censor the internet before they do.

What do you guys think ^

9 comments:

  1. iTunes is saving the record companies by getting them revenue for their songs.

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  2. just absurd, hope she somehow manages to countersue

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  3. Actually it<s the artists that are stupid. Nowadays, one can make an album, distribute it and make concert on his own.

    Lazy artists take the short way up by signing with big record companies giving up most of the money that<s made to guyz that are useless.

    I only buy music or apps directly through the artist himself. If it's not available, I either just download it for free since they didn't make the effort of offering it to me.

    If I really like the artist, there often is a paypal accnt for donations anyways.

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  4. you are so right with your post. i mean, she didn't even steal stuff, just make a copy of it!

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