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RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader
Murdock037 writes "It looks like the RIAA has rushed to settle with 12-year-old Brianna LaHara, after serving her with a lawsuit on Monday. It looks like her single mother will be paying a $2,000 fine to the RIAA for her daughter's song-swapping, which they had thought was legal. Said Brianna: 'I am sorry for what I have done. I love music and don't want to hurt the artists I love.' What a relief this must be for the Rolling Stones."
set up a fund for all those "poor bullied kids" who set up warez sites and got hit with legal action by big mean companies.
You participate in the digital black market and you're setting yourself up for trouble.
You can blame idiot sites like Slashdot for perpetuating the myth that stealing music is okay for the 12 year old getting into trouble. If you'd spend less time lying to people and more time educating them on what they're actually getting into, maybe fewer people would be so ignorant about the legal ramifications of participating in the digital black market.
"I didn't know" is completely bogus considering the huge media attention over Napster and MP3.com not too long ago.
I don't care to waste my money paying for the legal fees of people who steal. Would you dole out donations for someone who takes the GPL license off of an open source product and markets it closed source as their own? Whether they offered it for free or not?
Of course not.
Would you pay for the legal fees of someone who sets up a site for downloading newly released games and gets hit with huge fines?
Of course not.
This is just dense. Apprently stealing is legal so long as you don't like the people you steal from.
Fortunatly our court system isn't so stupid. Like it or not the family got off easy considering the maximum punishment on the books.
Ben
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refused to use it for so long you've sufficiently brainwashed yourself into believing you're somehow nobel for stealing other people's works.
I realize Slashdot doesn't like hearing it and I don't care.
Slashdot has thrown a number of tantrums when someone dares to remove a license agreement or to release an Open Source product as their own. But stealing music, that's apparently okay.
It's theft. It's sad that it took the RIAA prosecuting people to wake up the mass market to the facts even after years of telling people it was theft. Mass market didn't want to believe it. Slashdot and others were too stupid to stop lying and playing word games to make it sound legal and now the law has to be put into play to make examples of people.
And now Slashdot is apparently still too stupid to get it through their thick skull.
I fully expect lots more lawsuits. You can't host ROMs. What in the world makes you think you can host illegal MP3s?
It's just dense. The sooner people pull their heads out of their asses and call "sharing" what it is, theft, the sooner these lawsuits go away.
Ben
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you are talking about the RIAA here....they have no soul or conscious.
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Umm, there _is_ no debate. People should not be allowed to download music for listening purposes. They are not allowed, it's against the law, and these people aren't downloading 50 year old songs.
They're also not downloading all this great "free" music people bring up when they defend these services.