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DoJ Defends $1.92 Million RIAA Verdict
Death Metal points out a CNet report saying that the Justice Department has come out in favor of the $1.92 million verdict awarded to the RIAA in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset case. Their support came in the form of a legal brief filed on Friday, which notes, "Congress took into account the need to deter the millions of users of new media from infringing copyrights in an environment where many violators believe that they will go unnoticed." It also says, "The Copyright Act's statutory damages provision serves both to compensate and deter. Congress established a scheme to allow copyright holders to elect to receive statutory damages for copyright infringement instead of actual damages and profits because of the difficulty of calculating and proving actual damages."
I'm feeding the troll, but why do you white anglo-saxon protestants still call yourself mainstream America when every day you become an even smaller minority? The days of whitey controlling the country are over, esé.
So in your fantasy world, the penalty for shoplifting would be to ask the criminal to pay for the items he stole?
Let me just say (a) I wouldn't want to be a retailer/merchant in your world, and (b) I'm glad things don't work that way in the real world.
As an author, let me just say there should be a penalty -- a significant penalty -- for the wanton disregard for copyrights and intellectual property rights.
^^I said that.^^ That was me.
You cannot say something anonymously and then expect to have the rights to it.
Makes you wonder when these people will finally just throw out the constitution and say "Fuck you we make the rules"
with more bs like this i don't see why another civil war isn't around the corner...eventually people will wake up and say enough
Now what will stop douchebags like Rupert Murdoch from suing an individual for millions of dollars if that individual makes a webpage with quotes having more than a few words from one of Murdoch's newspaper stories?
HI troll, err I mean the_macman, didn't you know that no matter how corrupt or glaringly obvious that something is wrong, you will be modded a troll because no one can insult Obama, that's only allowed for republicans.
You have to be more tactful and say their is your "hope and change". Or was it "hope for change"? and like finding a couple pennies when you want to get a soda from the machine, it's the "change that matters".
You don't have to be rich to get fucked ... if you're handsome! Being funny may also possibly work out.