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Verdict Reached In RIAA Trial
jemtallon writes "The jury in the previously mentioned Captiol v Thomas story has reached a verdict. They have found in favor of the plaintiffs, Capitol, and ordered that she pay a $222,000 fine for 24 cases of copyright infringement."
Whereas in Soviet Russia, fiction is intellectual property. Oh wait...
(This post was written by a would-be novelist, but is 59,970 words too short to qualify as a novel.)
The amount awarded per song ($9250) is downright ridiculous
Not many people know this, but that's the price they originally wanted to charge per song on iTunes.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Uhhh we are. That's why they keep suing us!!
Don't do the CRIME if you can't pay the FINE !!
Don't do it !!
Sammy says so !!
What if someone wrote a virus that downloaded a random number of songs? Then if songs were found on my PC, and the virus was on my PC, would that create reasonable doubt?
Right, I've seen plenty of viruses download random songs, this makes perfect sense. Now back to why Chewbacca lives on Endor...
Or better yet, pay them a personal visit -- stalking from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 Carbine-gas semiautomatic, bitterly pumping round after round into the attorneys, their colleagues and co-workers.
Love,
Tyler
You're right: sharing RIAA-copyrighted music is a very bad thing. Music by Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake should never be allowed into the public, where it can destroy people's minds. This is a matter of public health; the CDC should be involved. People caught "sharing" this music shouldn't be fined; they should be quarantined!
Oh, I thought you were going to say that she was going to be able to take a shit and hand out thousands of copies of it along with a check for $7.33. Guess not.
I'd mod you up to 11 if I could.
They have such as system in place already. Its called "Fergie".
To boldly use to and too two times and get it right too! They're not gonna believe their eyes when they see it there!
How we know is more important than what we know.
Six should do it.
Things have more power in groups of ten.
I'd prefer doing things in multiples of the base of the natural logarithm, but as a non integer it poses problems. I've always wanted to redefine the integers using e as the base, creating some sort of vector or tensor space with non rheimanian geometry where distances were calculated with some combination of e, Pi, and c. I started on something like that once, but I wasn't sure if I was on to genius or madness, and I needed to study real classes I was taking instead of making strange mathematical symbols that I invented.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Yes, you do that.
i haven't listened to a cd in my life that was worth $20,000 a song.
I once listened to a Richard Marx CD. That was worth minus $20,000 a song. I haven't been able to operate my bowels properly ever since.
I wrote my first program at the age of six, and I still can't work out how this website works.
+1, oh snap.
"Women are just like ninjas; They lie even when it is more convenient to tell the truth." ~ Unknown