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RIAA Settles Suits Against Students
wo1verin3 writes "Cnet's News.Com has reported that the RIAA has settled the suits with four students accused of sharing songs. The settlements will see each student making payments to the RIAA totaling between $12,000 and $17,000, split into annual installments between 2003 and 2006."
...they got off cheap.
but geez, poor scapegoats, I could be next...and school leaves me broke enough already.
I bet these kids ended up paying more than 99 cents a song.
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12000 - 17000 songs they could have downloaded from apple's site ;)
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OK, that was cruel.
I was looking forward to them being sentenced to 200 million years hard labour at Burger King to pay off the initial amounts that were being bandied about.
Still 17K is not funny when you are still in school
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Nobody gets jail time for copyright violations. You pay a fine, you say you're sorry, you move on and download more shit.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Wow, they will have to start downloading MP3's, burning them to CDs and then selling them at car boot sales to afford those fines.
From the article:
"...said Howard Ende, a Drinker Biddle, and Reath attorney representing..."
How do legal firms wind up with names this stupid? There is the oft-mentioned Dewey, Cheatham and Howe but maybe in this case they should have gone for Bendham, Ohver and Quick.
Besides, in my book if your last name is "Biddle," you're automatically an asshole.
My
Limekiller
Student in deep shit : But Mom, Dad, the RIAA is evil, we can't let'em get away with this ! ... ...
...etc...
Dad of students in deep shit : Oh DAMMIT ALL TO HELL AND BACK son, can't you see ? you can get off easy ! You should think the RIAA is pretty leniant, letting you off that easy, you computer pirates. My God, don't you know what you did to your mother when she learned you was a computer pirate
S.I.D.S. : a pirate ? I ain't no pirate, I just d/led songs the RIAA overcharges anyway !
D.O.S.I.D.S. : oh fuck I've had more than enough of this computer geek crap. You will sign the settlement, it's enough the whole neighborhood knows about my son being a fooking hacker.
S.I.D.S. : but dad, you misunderstand, it's not
D.O.S.I.D.S. : and you'll make excuses to Mr. Valenti at court, and you better stop reading that Slash Duck site all day long and get your degree !
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
That *I* will never get caught. /me swaps more music
So I'm going to get their money's worth. Starting now.
I guess that Hillary Rosen can finally get that cute little Miata that she's had her eye on. /nod to Norm MacDonald and Weekend Update
...and how much do their lobbyists and their puppet politicians get?
They get 30% and the RIAA gets 100%. How, you ask? The artists will have to pay a 30% "protection fee" for the protection against piracy the RIAA has bestowed upon them.
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god." - Thomas Jefferson
Obviously, the artists should get $0, because of RIAA legal fees.
To be fair, the RIAA should be charging the artists for copyright protection.
Hmmm, kind of like "protection money", eh?
Well, dumbass, that's the difference between fines in criminal cases and damages in private lawsuits.
Well, $70,000 went for legal fees. $19,000 for publicity, $15,000 for fancy lunches, $11,000 for limo rides, and $45,000 for clothing. We figure the artists owe them somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000.
Pay up, suckas.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
... so basically the RIAA have found themselves a sales channel into the black market, where the money goes directly into their pocket without losing anything to the actual artists. Interesting way to:
5. Profit!
I wouldn't give you a French franc for any number of mp3s - audio CDs are bad enough, mp3 sound dreadful to anyone with a half decent gramophone.
I think you'll find it's OK. Digital technology nowadays can lower the Khz of the recording, and input all those little scratches and blips you're used to - you don't need to use the gramophone.
== Jez ==
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Oh so there was a verdict reached on the Hillary Rosen gender question? ::Deep Sigh:: I can sleep better tonight!
--Joey
In other words, the "streaming only, no save to disk" thing might have a hole in it.
/dev/audio (or whatever they use) to filename.mp3 (or whatever format)" (which would, of course, not even remotely work). If you wanna get your rocks off by stealing music, go right ahead. Apple just wants to make sure that it's not convenient or easy.
Of course there's a "hole" in it, you dickhead. Hold a fucking microphone up to the fucking speaker. What the fuck.
Calling shit like that a "hole" completely misses the point. Nobody cares if you ""tee" stdout (aka >&1) from
You know what it's like? You calling this a "hole" I mean. It's like if I put up a fence around my property. You're on one side of my property, and on the other is a Krispy Kreme. You can smell those donuts, and man, you want 'em bad. You look and look at my fence, but then you suddenly realize that you can just go AROUND my property, around the perimeter of my fence, to get to the Krispy Kreme. And after you do, you come back with your face smeared with glaze and say, "Hey, d00d, there's a hole in your fence look how clever I am!!!!!1" And I'm all, "Shut the fuck up you fat fucking pig, you don't even understand what my fence is trying to protect so you just shut your fucking mouth. Bitch."
Yeah. That's what it's like, that shit right there. Yeah.