stupid question: I've never heard/read a case where a downloader gets charges for downloading movies, tv series, games, or anime, its always music.
do they not enforce it in all those others, or they simply go for the music ones cuz those are the ones that scare the public easier?
kudichan said:
This is a noble sentiment, but unfortunately, nearly all major artists are under the RIAA, so I doubt enough people will be prepared to do this for there to be any real impact on them. The RIAA has a virtual monopoly on popular music.
Of course, it's possible that you are only doing this out of personal principle rather than with the intent of sending a message.
Indeed. I don't expect to make a difference any more than I expect to make a difference when I vote third party in every non-presidential election despite knowing that no third party candidate will likely ever get elected. It's one of my moral principles to do the 'right thing' despite what others may be doing or whether it will make a difference.
brningpyre said:
Not enough people prepared? Practically everyone pirates music these days, I doubt it'll be too much of a leap to encourage that.
Those people are just pirates. It would be easier to convince a buyer of music to pirate certain music than to convince a pirate of music to buy certain music.
SaruDa said:
Those people are just pirates. It would be easier to convince a buyer of music to pirate certain music than to convince a pirate of music to buy certain music.
I'm a pirate and i buy music that i like o.O
I want to actually own the things i like and not just pirate a copy and burn a disk...
Char said:
A block list probably would have prevented all the trouble but the case dates back to 2007.
The RIAA and it's lawyers just cannot stand the thought of getting squat for their efforts.
The very most I can suggest she should pay would be $1 a song and a single $500 fine.
Even the Judge agreed what the RIAA wants is monstrous and disgusting.I do strongly suspect highly illegal payoffs by the RIAA as no one I know would agree 1.5M is fair even if she stole CDs from a music store and copied them.
If I was on the jury I'd rule innocent simply because I despise the RIAA and think the laws on copyright in the US are generally wrong as they were not written by the people but by corporate fat cats.
Doesn't much matter what you feel, you vote guilty if they did the crime. It is up to the Judge to deal with the rule of law and there is no way he/she would let the fine stand.
Pyrolight said:
Doesn't much matter what you feel, you vote guilty if they did the crime. It is up to the Judge to deal with the rule of law and there is no way he/she would let the fine stand.
Actually it does go by what I feel that's the purpose of a jury.
I could assume and probably would be correct that all the evidence the RIAA presented was faked.
Char said:
Actually it does go by what I feel that's the purpose of a jury.
I could assume and probably would be correct that all the evidence the RIAA presented was faked.
You would be a very bad member of the jury in that case. Being on a jury isn't about enforcing your own personal agenda, it's about coming to a logical conclusion based on the arguments and evidence presented in court.
As for the veracity of the evidence, that's a ridiculous proposition. You don't think her lawyer looked into the evidence being presented in court?
You don't even need to leave the country to find terrorists.
If we talk about RIAA thats remind me that im waiting for the day , yeah , November 26 , the day of the veredict about the case of The Pirate Bay , also waiting the documentary TPB AFK
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