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P2P Defendant Destroys Evidence, Case Defaults
neoflexycurrent writes "A court in Texas has thrown the book at a defendant accused by the RIAA of file sharing. The court determined that she had intentionally wiped her hard drive clean, so it entered the most severe sanction possible — default judgment against her. The record companies now just have to ask the court how much they want in damages."
It could be that Texas judges are simply operating from an inferior moral standard (throwing the death penalty left and right; I'm not flame-baiting here, I'm stating the obvious: Texas abuses the death penalty and its courts seem to operate from a primitive ethical standard as compared to other states -and whereas most every other civilized nation has outlawed the damn thing- this qualifies simply in a comparative sense as morally inferior to the standards of modern society)... I was under the wistfully hopeful impression that the government was moving away from destroying the lives of a few random minor offenders to "make examples", as the IRS used to do to middle class folks who fudged their taxes a bit, as it is egregiously immoral.
Or it could be that the judge owns stock in major record labels and wanted to make some extra cash this week.
Just creatively articulating, of course, far be it from me to imply that there is a huge trend of corruption amongst the government officials with voting or deciding powers and using it to further their gains in the stock market. No, that would be outrageous...
Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh on the Honorable whatever-the-fuck, but I've had a rash inside my head due to irritation of the abudance of cruelty, corruption, and outright stupidity in the government I pay for. I need to switch to a better product, it seems.
Ex nihilo nihil fit.
I am really fuckin sick of this shit. Why do people stand for this shit, these greedy fuckin asshole execs. Very few artists have backed the RIAA on anything. Actually, a lot of bands have been created from pirating and the use of websites they have created, or places like myspace. There are so many misplaced priorities in America which is killing America and it's citizens. Why do artists think they need get paid millions for fuckin' acting or performing or doing sports? I work a crap load of hours in the gaming industry and you don't hear us complaining about making average salaries. Very few people except the top of the top execs get paid anything remotely good. I am talking owners of publishers here. Put actors and actresses and music artists at a cap of 150k anything higher than that is just a little bonus. They shouldn't be expecting millions on a small amount of work. This goes for athletes as well. Maybe if we do that, there will be better movies and albums out there.
Did people ever thinking of pirating a form of a library. I don't know where I would be with out it. I sure as hell wouldn't be working in the game industry. There is a hell of a lot of knowledge and entertainment I wouldn't of seen with out pirating. With the RIAA and MPAA if they had it their way, we wouldn't have CDs or DVDs to burn on. Could you imagine the amount of useful information that has been passed through these medias? That one important discovery of a new virus, or a technological breakthrough document or maybe it is your photos of your trip that you don't want to ever loose? It isn't just about money, it is seriously about growing human knowledge. Only a few people in powerful places right now in America are keeping EVERYONE down. Between the shitty ass internet that the telecoms put into place, and the corrupt congress and government we have, to the mindset of greed in big corporations, we really have screwed ourselves over.
I will pirate till the day I die. FU RIAA you greedy twat-muffins. You keep innovation down and new forms of entertainment out of reach of your own fuckin consumer base. That is right, there is sure a hell of a lot more people on my fuckin side than yours. People can make their own recordings and produce their own albums with only a few thousand on a nice computer rig. All people need is talent and a website. Don't worry RIAA and MPAA you will go down in flames you greedy fuck monkeys!
Just because you don't understand technology doesn't mean you have to go and fuck it up for the rest of us.
Wouldn't it make far more sense to simply not defy a court order or even steal music in the first place? Why give these wankers any more ideas on how to cover up their theft? If you want to do the crime, then be prepared to pay the consequences... legal music is only $1 a track on iTunes, more than reasonable. Is it really worth gambling up to $150,000 per track that you are safe?
As for wiping the drive to give to charity, reimaging the drive is also a non-issue since you'd just wipe the drive and give the computer to them and let them provide their own OS since you can't legally transfer the OS license anyway in most cases. You could always stick Ubuntu on it.
>Because the majority of The People do not beleive music theft to be a crime
I think you mean the majority of the people under 18. Most adults would consider it theft whether they'd do it themselves or not.
>you are under no moral obligation to obey them.
Do you live anarchist fairytale land or something? You have to obey the law whether you like it or not. If you don't like it you vote against the government at the next election , you don't just say its a free for all and do what you please. I think you're showing your rather (young) age.
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