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3 thousand dollars out of court settlements per violator..

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The average settlement is $3000. However, the RIAA may begin asking for larger settlements, as awareness of the legal issues surrounding file swapping grows, and if the RIAA's legal costs grow as a result of decisions like those from the D.C. circuit, Sherman says.




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so wait, they sued IP addresses? How is that possible? what if the IP address belongs to a library, or a nursing home. that'd be hilarious. *note I didn't read the article yet.

k I read it...
ROFL, my favorite line:
"Computers don't steal songs, people do," Carnes says
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"Guns don't kill people, people do"
 
The fact that they are collecting settlement money clearly indicates they have an effective legal strategy. Over time public machine owners ie.library..schools..etc.will realize their liability and find ways to comply.
 
The best way to combat this would be if for a few weeks everyone downloaded music they legally owned on CD. You get the lawsuit, you send them a cease and desist and perhaps a counter suit. Pow. In a few weeks the RIAA is stuck looking like idiots (again) after filing a ba jillion lawsuits against people who were simply downloading what they legally own. I'd love to see something like that happen.
 
Originally posted by: Shockwave
The best way to combat this would be if for a few weeks everyone downloaded music they legally owned on CD. You get the lawsuit, you send them a cease and desist and perhaps a counter suit. Pow. In a few weeks the RIAA is stuck looking like idiots (again) after filing a ba jillion lawsuits against people who were simply downloading what they legally own. I'd love to see something like that happen.
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Has the legality of downloading media you own been determined yet? I thought that was still up in the air.
 
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: Shockwave
The best way to combat this would be if for a few weeks everyone downloaded music they legally owned on CD. You get the lawsuit, you send them a cease and desist and perhaps a counter suit. Pow. In a few weeks the RIAA is stuck looking like idiots (again) after filing a ba jillion lawsuits against people who were simply downloading what they legally own. I'd love to see something like that happen.
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Has the legality of downloading media you own been determined yet? I thought that was still up in the air.
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Dunno, but it'd sure put another long drawn out court case in the works.

 
what if someone wrote a virus that connectged to kazaa, and downloaded 1000 mp3's without the users knowledge? Then computers would be stealing 🙂
 
Isn't the purchase of a music cd for personal use and the music content is copywrite protected?? So you realy don't own the content...any more then you would own the content of a book you purchased.
 
Originally posted by: Shockwave
The best way to combat this would be if for a few weeks everyone downloaded music they legally owned on CD. You get the lawsuit, you send them a cease and desist and perhaps a counter suit. Pow. In a few weeks the RIAA is stuck looking like idiots (again) after filing a ba jillion lawsuits against people who were simply downloading what they legally own. I'd love to see something like that happen.
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Great idea... from what I understand, you didn't break any copyright laws if you download what you legally own. However, the person you downloaded it from broke the "no unauthorized distribution..." part of the copyright... And, THOSE are the people they're going after... the uploaders (anyone who downloads and has it in their share file and it gets uploaded anywhere.)
 
Originally posted by: Shockwave
The best way to combat this would be if for a few weeks everyone downloaded music they legally owned on CD. You get the lawsuit, you send them a cease and desist and perhaps a counter suit. Pow. In a few weeks the RIAA is stuck looking like idiots (again) after filing a ba jillion lawsuits against people who were simply downloading what they legally own. I'd love to see something like that happen.
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Then they'd sue people who posted the content. You can't win - RIAA owns you!
 
wat if u on wireless router and it becomes a hotspot (intentionally or not) and peeps in the neighborhood come d/l

i guess like starbucks
 
what if u get ur subpeona and u go out and buy all the CD's for the mp3's u have, isnt it then backup if they cant prove date of purchase?
 
The best way to combat this would be if for a few weeks everyone downloaded music they legally owned on CD. You get the lawsuit, you send them a cease and desist and perhaps a counter suit. Pow. In a few weeks the RIAA is stuck looking like idiots (again) after filing a ba jillion lawsuits against people who were simply downloading what they legally own. I'd love to see something like that happen.
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The RIAA is suing distributors, not downloaders.
 
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