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RIAA Settles Suits Against Students

Posted by michael on from the pay-up-and-no-one-gets-hurt dept.

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."

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  1. compared to tuition... by theoddball · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they got off cheap.

    but geez, poor scapegoats, I could be next...and school leaves me broke enough already.

  2. Apple pricing suddenly looking better? by PylonHead · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet these kids ended up paying more than 99 cents a song.

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  3. wow... thats.. by dwgranth · · Score: 5, Funny

    12000 - 17000 songs they could have downloaded from apple's site ;)

  4. Well, they paid for it! by user+no.+590291 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I'm going to get their money's worth. Starting now.

  5. Re:and how much by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:You don't speak for me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other words, the "streaming only, no save to disk" thing might have a hole in it.

    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 /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.

    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.