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."

Re:Intellectual property is fiction

[Anonymous Coward]

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.)

ridiculous for you maybe

[User 956]

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.

Re:Boycott or shut up

[rdejean]

Uhhh we are. That's why they keep suing us!!

Don't do the CRIME if you can't pay the FINE !!

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't do the CRIME if you can't pay the FINE !!

Don't do it !!

Sammy says so !!

Re:Download virus

[suv4x4]

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...

Re:We need to treat this like WAR.

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Unfortunately inevitable...

[Grishnakh]

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!

Re:Appeal fund?

[garcia]

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.

Re:Steal from the RIAA- BUY USED MUSIC!

[Xebikr]

I'd mod you up to 11 if I could.

Re:Don't do the CRIME if you can't pay the FINE !!

[Propaganda13]

Wondering if they'll mind if she pays with duplicated money.

Re:Unfortunately inevitable...

[jon287]

i guess they're just trying as hard as hell to make sure i don't listen to new music

They have such as system in place already. Its called "Fergie".

Re:Steal from the RIAA- BUY USED MUSIC!

[QuantumG]

multi billion dollar productions like LOTR

multi-billion dollar walking.

Re:Download virus

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

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.

Re:Anyone got video of the defendant?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, you do that.

Re:Unfortunately inevitable...

[sqldr]

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.

Re:Steal from the RIAA- BUY USED MUSIC!

[cralewyth]

+1, oh snap.

Re:Don't do the CRIME if you can't pay the FINE !!

[tompaulco]

You went bankrupt because of debt, and the first thing you do when you get out of bankruptcy is go get a car loan?

Seems like someone hasn't learned their lesson.
I agree, those banks haven't learned their lesson. But why should they, when the Gov't will bail them out of any bad lending decisions they make?