This is not a worthy comment. Jammie Thomas was not accused of Murder, she was accused of copyright violation. Please try and leave hysterics and vitriol out of what really should be a rational discussion regarding rights, punishment and ethics.
Did Jammie Thomas commit a crime? Perhaps. Have any of you ever recorded a live aired concert from the radio in your youth? Have you ever taped a TV show? A rented movie?
Please, leave out this "she is guilty" B.S. and let's concentrate on what should be done to change the laws on intellectual property rights of artists. Should the individual consumer be charged for the faulty agreements between recording companies and artists? As I see it, therein lies the problem.
I am not advocating boycotting these companies to hurt their earnings or stockholder's profits. I realize that my contribution, even were I joined by 100,000 like minded folks, would be a flea-bite of their corporate profits.
I want to boycott them to show the people they are "making examples of" that the rest of us out here give a damn about their plight. These corporate weasels are raking little people over the coals for a sound bite. These are human lives being affected here. Those two children who will now most likely have to see even less of their Mother than normal due to the extra hours she will be putting in to pay her now garnished blood money for her "piracy"... those kids are going to suffer because some smart assed genius in the recording industry figured that a big slap in the face was what we people need for the audacity of copying their music.
Get real folks. How much music was recorded off the radio in the "old days?" How many of you out there recrded live sessions of the "King Biscuit Flower Hour?"
This is Greed and inhumanity working its case against PEOPLE. When will we as fellow people start to hold these corporate bastards accountable?
I agree. I will not purchase another piece of music from any of those who are named in this lawsuit.
That is: Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and Warner Bros. Records Inc.
If enough people do this, we will cost them far more that $222,000. At $16 per CD that is less than 14,000 people required to boycott.
What say you?
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This is not a worthy comment. Jammie Thomas was not accused of Murder, she was accused of copyright violation. Please try and leave hysterics and vitriol out of what really should be a rational discussion regarding rights, punishment and ethics. Did Jammie Thomas commit a crime? Perhaps. Have any of you ever recorded a live aired concert from the radio in your youth? Have you ever taped a TV show? A rented movie? Please, leave out this "she is guilty" B.S. and let's concentrate on what should be done to change the laws on intellectual property rights of artists. Should the individual consumer be charged for the faulty agreements between recording companies and artists? As I see it, therein lies the problem.
I am not advocating boycotting these companies to hurt their earnings or stockholder's profits. I realize that my contribution, even were I joined by 100,000 like minded folks, would be a flea-bite of their corporate profits.
I want to boycott them to show the people they are "making examples of" that the rest of us out here give a damn about their plight. These corporate weasels are raking little people over the coals for a sound bite. These are human lives being affected here. Those two children who will now most likely have to see even less of their Mother than normal due to the extra hours she will be putting in to pay her now garnished blood money for her "piracy"... those kids are going to suffer because some smart assed genius in the recording industry figured that a big slap in the face was what we people need for the audacity of copying their music.
Get real folks. How much music was recorded off the radio in the "old days?" How many of you out there recrded live sessions of the "King Biscuit Flower Hour?"
This is Greed and inhumanity working its case against PEOPLE. When will we as fellow people start to hold these corporate bastards accountable?
I agree. I will not purchase another piece of music from any of those who are named in this lawsuit. That is: Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and Warner Bros. Records Inc. If enough people do this, we will cost them far more that $222,000. At $16 per CD that is less than 14,000 people required to boycott. What say you?